Nacon's new officially licensed PlayStation 5 controller also works with your PC, and it offers a mind-boggling number of swappable buttons and sticks. The company is unashamedly targeting competitive gamers who may want an array of customizable shortcut buttons, control profiles and even an interactive control screen for all those options.

Priced at $230, Nacon's Revolution 5 Unlimited its most premium gamepad yet. Instead of Hall effect sensors on its joysticks (already an upgrade from typical potentiometer sticks), it opted for TMR (tunneling magnetoresistance), which uses less power while still minimizing physical wear and tear and the threat of stick drift.

The R5U has an asymmetric stick design instead of the traditional DualSense layout, swapping the joystick and D-pad placement on the left side of the R5U. I find an asymmetric layout more comfortable, although after decades of conditioning, it oddly felt like I wasn't playing a PlayStation game. This is the first controller I've reviewed that also features trigger blockers, reducing trigger travel if needed, with a chunky toggle below each pair of trigger arrays. You get the best of both trigger travel lengths; you can gently increase your speed in racing games, keep trigger travel short for faster firing in high-speed rounds of Overwatch (the game I tested on the R5U most) or use the feature for quicker parries in fighting games. Below the trigger toggles, there are no fewer than four — yes, four — custom shortcut buttons. Then there are two more shortcut "S " buttons between the L and R trigger pairs.

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