Review on 🎮 Enhance Your Gaming Experience with PowerA MOGA XP5-X Plus Bluetooth Controller for Android and PC by Tiffany Wright

This is my new favorite controller. TL;DR, if you are looking for the best universal controller to use conveniently on Android/Windows/Linux, this is it. I play a lot on Windows, Android and PC and it works very well. for all of these use cases. First, the controller has a huge battery. I understand it's meant to be used as a battery pack as well, but it has the benefit of just never dying. After the first charge, I used it several hours a day for several weeks. How much battery do I have left? 70% 3000mAh in the controller. Three times more than the DS4 without the annoying LED. Analog sticks are great. The grips on the sticks grip your fingers very well and are very similar to the original Xbox One controller. They are very accurate, I played Outer Worlds with joysticks without any problems. The buttons on the face work well, as expected. The shoulder buttons are slightly softer than the original Xbox controller and are reminiscent of "mechanical" membrane keyboards. I like them a lot, my roommates don't. Sometimes I accidentally press the triggers, but I think it's more because I'm used to the DS4 controller. The cross is incredible. I wouldn't use it for fighting games, but it's very good for absolutely everything else. Better than the Xbox One, better than the DS4, better than the Switch Pro - just a really nice D-Pad. It passes my emulation and dead cell tests with flying colours. Pressing the analog sticks is very tactile and quite loud. I'm not a *big* fan of it, but those I give the controller to like it, but whatever, because: the buttons on the back are very useful and remapping is very fast. I hate it when games use the stick click to sprint, but it doesn't matter because I can just map the stick click to the back button. You can reassign them to any other controller button on the fly. Want to use the face button with both hands on analog sticks? take action. Hate taking your hands off the trigger? Yes, of course, remap them to the bumpers. I haven't had any accidental clicks on it and hitting the back buttons is very nice. Before we get into the ins and outs of the platform, let's talk about the clip. This is the best clip for the phone. It has multiple hinges so you can properly distribute the weight. I thought I needed a telescoping switch for my phone but now I don't care. You can put your phone in front of the controller if you want it closer to your face, you can hover over it at any angle. This is just a great clip. The cutouts for the volume rocker or any other button are just the icing on the cake. Gaming in wired mode is great. Haven't used the battery pack feature yet, but I'm sure it works well. This controller also auto-powers off fairly quickly, but reconnects very quickly, making the battery last a very long time. You can also just switch it to wired mode to turn it off if you've been using it wirelessly, which is great. Let's talk platforms: Android just plug and play with or without Bluetooth. Pairing is very easy and doesn't require long presses of painful buttons. I switch back to my computer from Android frequently and the easier pairing than any first batch controller is much appreciated. Like I said, the clip is amazing. I also have a Razer Kishi and like this controller and clip combo more than the Kishi. PC is a little mixed, but not if you know what you're doing. If you only play on Steam, just turn on Universal Controller support and Steam will take it well. Note that you can't map the back keys to keyboard keys, but I personally don't care. This controller on Windows is a DINPUT controller, meaning many non-Steam games don't pick it up natively, viz. Gamepass games rarely understand this. There is a program called "Xoutput" that you can use to remap the controller inputs from dinput to xinput so it can be used in most games. I had no problems with this method. Playing with the controller in wired mode (using the included long cable) also only puts the controller in xinput mode. So if you just plan to play it on Windows in wired mode, you don't need to use the program. If you only want to use this with Steam games then you won't do anything either. The only problem I've had with Windows is that after a reboot I have to repair the controller. Not a big deal as pairing this controller is easier than any other controller pairing I've gone through and I still do it all the time switching back and forth from Android. Linux picks up the controller perfectly with no issues. Back buttons work etc. I am very happy with this purchase and have been using the controller everywhere since purchasing it. I haven't used any of my other controllers, even in games where it would have made sense because it's too comfortable.