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Well I've been using the same DS4 since 2016. So there's that.

@UpSideDownGRUNT Mines is official Sony brand straight out of retail, complete packaged with the fresh smell and every button is rough as if it had just been born.

Results: Always desyncs at any moment. Battery says 98% but still desyncs.

Now on PC it just acts weird. Auto moves etc. 4th controller this year, and all of them except one have been fresh out the box from a month's use.

Ironically, the very first controller from the PS4 is the one that lasted me the most. A year and a half, but had the unfortunate event where the PS button just stopped working. Wherever the hell happened to that model.

My launch DS4 (7 years old now) works like it did the day I plugged it into the PS4 for the first time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Maybe you just were unlucky with your's?

this is why instead of using PS4 pads i just use my brook converter and attach my original 360 pad, which I bought back in 2010 and it still works perfectly, meanwhile I've owned 3 PS4 controllers and they all started acting funny after a year of use, hell even my joy cons lasted longer, and I pay Smash and Bayonetta 1 +2 on those, screw DS4

There are two DS4 controller designs, the pre-PS4 Pro designs released around launch and post-PS4 designs released around November 11, 2016. Subtle difference between the two: The launch DS4 controllers felt slightly more durable and "shiny-looking". The newer DS4 could show the "light bar" from the front.

Don't think I can find any new pre-PS4 Pro DS4's unfortunately. I currently have 4 DS4's: 1 pre-Pro & 3 post-Pro (used on PS4 Pro, PC, PS3 and one through a Brook converter on an XBone X). The launch DS4 pad feels "better made" for some reason.

@Force_of_Nature Yeah that very first model was alright actually. And people are charging an arm and a leg for that one unless you get used ones which is a dice roll.

This is the 4th controller from the newer models. Two of them were from Gamestop, and the last one was from Amazon.

@Tyaren It's very possible to admit actually. I also heard of Pseudo PS4 controllers that look exactly like the official ones, but from the history of the last two which is from Gamestop, it makes me question if the shipment they've gotten were directly from Sony or from some off-hub.

Either that, or I have severe terrible luck with faulty controllers in rows. Considering that I generally like the design of the PS4 controllers, but the builds, and the sensitivity of them is questionable. I almost never even drop them and I have hard rugs all over my floor that softens just about anything that drops including glass.

@Camel with 2 thumbs My favorite controllers were possibly the PS2 and PS3 ones, and sorta miss them (least terms build and durability). Even the PS3 ones lasted me for about 3 years just for one.