Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra Wireless High Performance Gaming Controller with Rapid Charge Dock, Adjustable Triggers and Command Display for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One & PC [Officially Licensed for Xbox]

I was dubious at first, but I plumped for this controller over another "Elite" Microsoft controller as I've had two of them so far and the right shoulder button has "gone" on both of them! I decided if I was going to spend in the region of £120 on a premium controller I'd try something different.Been going a few months on this now, mostly playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, which is intensive on that top right shoulder button since it's the main attack one! Still going strong and cracking heads with it.The controller sits nicely in the hands, the buttons are slightly out from the standard controller but you get used to it very quickly. It's very responsive and it looks good too, what with all the LED lighting and so on.About the lighting, it may contribute to the battery consumption quite considerably. I've not run out yet, but after maybe 6 hours of gaming I have noticed when I put it back on charge it is around the 30% mark. This might be a consideration for people out there who have a worse gaming habit than me! You can turn the lights off and so on, so you can probably extend the battery life to a certain degree if you play with the settings.I've ostensibly used this on my X Box, but I did plug it into my laptop and it performed equally well on there; plus you have the application to download where you can program the additional buttons, set profiles and the like.I have had occasions where it took a couple of minutes for a connection between the controller and the BluTooth stick that comes with it. I don't know though, that may have been me, so I'm not going to dock points for it.Overall, a very nice peripheral and one that I am glad I took a chance on. Mostly because 6 months on I'm not looking to replace it because it's faulty, like the similarly priced Microsoft ones!

1 Year later.Multiple updates, controller still isn't fit for purpose, have lost more games because of this controllers random disconnects etc than i ever couple have with any other controller.29th March Update - Obvious Design Defect.Due to the non-existant anti friction rings & non-replacable sticks, as you can see normal wear/tear (had this controller since start of Feb) Is slowly working it's way through the stick.Longer Term Review:I've now been using the controller for over a month, in a multitude of games.The Hall Effect sticks are very sensitive/accurate and the technology should eliminate drifting effects with the exception of the spring simply wearing out in long term use, although the anti friction ring material leaves alot to be desired as within a short time (hours) the controller sticks feel much like a standard controller with a grindy/gritty feeling as it circles the ring, it's no worse than a standard controller but it's far and away from the Elite controllers which use more appropriate materials which completely smooth for it's entire life time. (Even if you get one that lasts years rather than weeks) and a major negative is the fact the sticks aren't replaceable, you get some chinsy covers to go over them but that isn't anywhere near good enough for the price point.The mechanical buttons are LOVELY, it's hard to go back to a normal controller the clicky clicky dpad and face buttons are a joy to use and beat em up titles are very much enjoyable compared to any other controllers I've experienced.Battery life, it isn't 30 hours but with a custom power setting of medium LEDs and short screen off time I routinely get 20+ hours from it, placing it on the charging dock when I goto bed each night battery really is not an issue currently.However, the controller is not perfect.First, the select button (used for Map in RPG games etc) is very close to the left analogue stick, personally I find my "man hands" almost always snag on the analogue stick and I have to consciously press it, id go as far as to say it's a major design flaw.The start button is also similar, mainly for beat em up titles when your mashing the face buttons trying to get those combos/throws I've found quite a few times I've inadvertently touched the start button and paused the game, not a game breaking issue but for sure id not buy revision 2 of this controller if the buttons remained in the same place.I've seen people complain about connectivity to the console, I've had one disconnect in a month of use that was strange/problematic and I had to power cycle the controller.The firmware/software on the controller itself is quite good, very responsive and I've on many occasions added buttons to the rear paddles during gameplay in a few seconds while I flicked through the controller menus, but I'd say there's still some work to be done regarding placement of menus, for example the Profile menu to swap between profiles is a good few button presses to swap from Profile 1 to 2 when it could be done in 2 presses, and adding more buttons (start/select maybe) to the configuration options, fortunately Turtle Beach are releasing updates pretty actively so these things may well come soon.All in all, an excellent controller for a first attempt but I hope a revision 2 comes along in a years time and polishes it up and it'll be a no brainer for the best controller title, of course the competition could come out with Hall Effect sticks and mechanical switches in that time and compeletely overshadow the Stealth Ultras potential, the ultra has the internal technology nailed but if someone copies it and tweaks button placement/friction ring upgrade & allows for replaceable sticks, that's the one who gets the best controller title & there would be no looking twice.

Got this when it was in a sale and my current controller (vanilla xbox controller) was getting stick drift. I have used standard controllers and the xbox elite controller for comparison. The elite, while weighted and having a solid feel, broke 3 times in a year that I had to send back to get replaced, before it broke again out of warranty and I was given a discount to buy a new one so I gave u and went back to standard controllers.On getting this I was pleased with it straight out the box, although it is lightweight, it feels solid. on first set up to the xbox I downloaded the app to manage the controller settings, this initially put me off. It felt overly complex and hard to navigate, however, after becoming more familiar I discover that all the settings are able to be changed from the controller itself in a very user friendly interface on the controller display. This then made the xbox app easier to understand, though I still change all setting directly on the controller. Yoju can set different profiles, change the controller colours, switch hair triggers on or off, reset calibrate the controller thumbsticks and triggers, change various headphone auido options. The battery life is great, though if you have all the lights on, vibration etc etc it will obviously draw the battery a lot quicker.This is a fantastic bit of kit and so far has served me well. Very happy.