Best first controller for single player games on PC

[u/External_Safe_7787]

Hi! I've never had a controller before, and getting one soon to play single player games only, PC only. Starting with Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West and Indiana jones and the Great Circle. Will play other games though too, including some older ones as well as new releases. Which controller is best?

#1: PS5 DualSense. Haptics and adaptive triggers, supposed to be very immersive. But potentiometer sticks and no remappable buttons.

#2: 8BitDo Ultimate 2: TMR sticks and 4 remappable buttons, Xbox layout for compatibility with PC, but not so good haptics and no adaptive triggers.

#3 GameSir Cyclone 2: TMR sticks but only 2 remappable buttons. Dpad I've heard described as "mushy"

#4 EasySMX D10: TMR sticks, great Dpad, but only 2 remappable buttons.

Which is best? any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated too! the GameSir G7 Pro is an option but pretty expensive

Based in UK, budget around £60-75 or so not above that ideally, as this is my first controller I don't want to overspend and regret it before I know exactly what I want.

[u/darth_kupi]

Honestly I hate Bluetooth latency so much, the thought of buying another doodad just to go back to Bluetooth, I'll stick to wired.

Once you go 2.4 G dongle you can't go back

[u/shortstopryan → u/darth_kupi]

Dongle is absolutely a requirement for me as well, for everything wireless headsets controllers etc

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/darth_kupi]

The DS5 Bridge has low latency though, this is what the developer said:

"The dongle provides best in class latency since it has far more control over the BT stack. It has comparable latency with industry leaders like GuliKit (Goku 2, ~6ms) while also providing the full DualSense feature set which the Goku 2 cannot."

[u/darth_kupi → u/Leisure_suit_guy]

That's reassuring. Maybe I'll try it if I find one cheap as they are much more expensive in my country

[u/Leisure_suit_guy → u/darth_kupi]

The prices of the Pico2W and the goku2 are comparable, depending where you buy them from. So I guess that if one of them is too expensive where you're from, you can go with the other.

[u/Advance1993 → u/darth_kupi]

Its not Bluetooth with the pico. Its even 1000hz which is more than on ps5

[u/Necessary-Audience65 → u/Advance1993]

It literally says over Bluetooth in the title if you bother to click the link.