DualSense V2 appears on retailer website, promising 12 hours battery life
A DualSense V2 controller has appeared on Best Buy Canada’s website, leaking an improved version of the PS5 controller with up to 12 hours of battery life.
The DualSense V2 is priced at $89.99 CAD, which is the same cost as an original DualSense.
This revised controller apparently features “exceptional 12-hour battery life, on a full charge” per the Best Buy listing, which would make a significant uplift from the roughly 8 hours that is expected from the original DualSense, and even more of an uplift compared to what you can get out of a DualSense Edge pro controller).
In practice, we would expect that actual battery life is dependent on the features that you’re using and games that you’re playing. With a built-in microphone, and variable strength for the haptic feedback motors and the adaptive triggers, there’s a lot of gadgetry stuffed into each DualSense controller. You can get better battery life for reducing the strength of the trigger effects, for example, and certain games use the triggers more than others.
What’s not clear is how Sony would be achieving this improvement. Are they simply adding a larger battery to the DualSense controller? Both the DualSense V1 and the DualSense Edge use the same 1560mAh battery pack. If Sony increased that in size to around 2250mAh, they might be able to claim 12 hours. Alternatively, they could have made tweaks to the rest of the controller, making the chipsets more efficient, modifying the triggers and haptic motors, and making power savings that way. Most likely, it’s a mixture of the two – Sony has already fiddled with the inner workings in the last few years.
It’s a pleasant surprise to see Sony actually addressing one of the main bug bears with the PlayStation 5, but while we
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