The GameCube’s retro styling lives on in this customized PS5 DualSense controller

Oct 21, 2024 11:23 PM - 6 months ago 245079

Following the 30th day versions of the PlayStation 5 featuring an old-school grey colorway, Killscreen has announced a customized type of the PlayStation 5’s DualSense controller called the CubeSense, which comes pinch a purple ammunition and civilization joysticks inspired by the Nintendo GameCube.

Killscreen’s customized controllers are each based connected a modular DualSense Wireless Controller, truthful while the CubeSense pairs a matte purple ammunition connected the beforehand pinch a transparent 1 connected the back, its red, green, and ray grey look buttons don’t lucifer the different fastener layout Nintendo utilized for the GameCube’s gamepads.

But for a starting value of $149, Killscreen has swapped retired the modular DualSense’s joysticks for versions that intimately lucifer what the GameCube’s controller used, including the yellowish instrumentality pinch a mini nub that was utilized to power the camera successful games. Unlike the asymmetrical layout of the sticks connected the GameCube’s controller, the CubeSense’s analog sticks beryllium broadside by side.

The Killscreen CubeSense PS5 Controller against a gradient background.

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Play for illustration it’s 2001 again.

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Killscreen offers further customizations for the CubeSense. For $169, you tin opt to switch retired the DualSense’s modular triggers and bumpers pinch clicky alternatives that person shorter recreation to amended consequence times while playing FPS games. You tin besides opt to upgrade the DualSense’s rubber membrane look buttons pinch microswitches truthful they person much of a clicky consciousness erstwhile pressed for $169, but if you want each of the controller’s buttons upgraded, that pushes the CubeSense’s value tag to $179.