the playstation 5 is almost here and for
some reason its new dual sense
controller is here already
since there's nothing to control yet
we'll play the teardown game instead
it's got some serious stormtrooper vibes
going on and what's
that on the grip the underside of each
grip has
tiny x's circles squares and triangles
printed all over it that's some cool
attention to detail
let's see if that attention to detail
continues on the inside
the minimalist design means there are no
visible screws but you can pry up this
black
plastic cover around the joysticks a
little spudgering does the trick very
nicely
that reveals the first two screws with
two more hidden under the l1
and r1 buttons maybe don't try this near
any open windows
now we can dispatch the four phillips
screws take notes nintendo no tiny tri
points here
and open this thing up our first look
inside reveals a beefy battery a hint of
green circuit board
and some serious trigger and vibration
motor hardware as usual we'll tackle the
battery first since it's not glued in
place we can lift the whole thing up to
get the cables out of the way
then do some careful tweezing to
disconnect it this grey monolith is a
5.7 watt hour lithium ion battery pack
encased in tough plastic the ps4's
dualshock 4 battery pack was
also encased in plastic but it had a
much smaller 3.7 watt hour capacity
the well itself is held down by a single
phillips screw attached to the battery
well is this little rear-facing
microphone
it's a walk in the park to disconnect
during a teardown or if you're just
nervous about sony listening in while
you're gaming
since the vibration motors are soldered
to the motherboard it takes some careful
acrobatics to get the board out of the
way while we unscrew two more phillips
screws underneath it
those screws release the white touch pad
bracket and a clear light guide that
channels some of the controller's
lighting from a single led on the
motherboard
two more screws hold the arms of the
plastic frame down once they're out the
front plate comes away and we're left
with the black frame holding the core
components of the controller
the motherboard the vibration motors and
the new trigger mechanisms
the adaptive trigger modules are secured
to the black frame with two phillips
screws each
four more phillips screws hold the
module itself together the trigger works
normally without all the fancy mechanics
making contact with a button attached to
the blue ribbon cable but
if game developers choose to they can
program the controller to adjust how
difficult the trigger is to pull
the silver motor spins the white spiral
gear which moves the black arm up and
adds resistance to the trigger's lever
action
adding another level of feedback and
input to the button and to the game
it'll be interesting to see how this
part holds up over time the good news is
most of the components within this
mechanism are modular the main gear and
the connecting arm pop right out and
even the motor can be replaced
independently
if you're handy with a soldering iron
the face of the controller houses the
various buttons and the track pad
the buttons are all very easy to remove
so when they inevitably get stuck
it won't be too hard to pop them out and
clean them the track pad is secured with
two screws on the back side of the face
of the controller once it's removed you
can see its button
a tiny controller chip and a group of
downward firing leds
we are very curious to see what the new
vibration motors look like underneath
their casings
but that's a little out of the scope of
this video we're diving a little deeper
into the mechanics of this controller
over in our written teardown
we might unmask it there you can check
that out at the link in the description
since we're leaving those motors in
place for now our motherboard is held
hostage in the frame
it's still easy enough to see all the
sights though the first side is home to
all those connectors we dispatched
earlier
and a few chips there's a dialogue power
management ic
a realtek audio codec and a custom sony
chip
likely here to handle all the extra
processing these controllers are doing
the other side is home to the two
joysticks which look and feel about the
same as the dualshock 4 controllers
and also like the dualshock 4 these
sticks are soldered to the board
which is unfortunate considering these
sticks have been known to drift in the
past
the saving grace of nintendo's joy-con
drift fiasco was that the drifting
joysticks were relatively easy to
replace
alas no quick joystick swaps here this
side is also home to the usb-c port
an led and a small speaker
our scoring rubric for controllers isn't
fully fledged yet so we're going to hold
off on scoring this thing for now but
today we learned that the ps5 dual sense
controller is a modular
though pretty complex piece of tech it's
held together almost entirely with
identical phillips screws
and a lot of its critical components are
easily replaceable but it is unfortunate
that some repairs can only be
accomplished with the soldering iron and
that's it for this teardown for more
nerdy details on this cool new
controller you can check out our
step-by-step teardown linked in the
description stay tuned to ifixit.com and
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