Nacon Revolution 5 Pro is a $200 PS5 controller that’s been hamstrung by Sony
The premium controller market has continued to grow in recent years.
While in the past it was unthinkable to spend more on a controller than you would on a game, today the price of some controllers rival those of actual consoles.
While the leaders of the pack are clearly Microsoft and Sony – with the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 and PlayStation DualSense Edge promising premium controls with a premium price point to match – third-party peripheral makers have been getting involved too.
One such company is Nacon, which has regularly been delivering controllers that we at VGC believe to be among the best third-party offerings you can find.
At $199 / €229 / £199, the Revolution 5 Pro is easily its most expensive controller to date (arcade sticks aside), and we think this time Nacon has bitten off more than it can chew – through no fault of its own, however.
The controller’s plus points are plentiful. It comes with a storage case and a separate box containing a host of extra accessories, such as a second D-Pad (so you can swap between a plus shape and a disc), six joystick heads (two concave and four convex of varying heights) and metal joystick rings.
It also includes a selection of weights, which you can use to give your controller extra heft. You do this by sliding open little hatches in the grips and placing the weights inside there.
The controller has an asymmetric layout, which is just Nacon’s fancy way of saying it’s put the sticks where they are on an Xbox controller, instead of at the bottom like on the DualSense. This will obviously divide players based on what they’re used to, but anyone who likes the Xbox layout will welcome this move.
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