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Many may see this as a gimmick, and we were – and probably still are – in that camp, but it’s a nice gimmick to have, allowing the Afterglow Wave to standout from the crowd. It’s also how the Afterglow Wave gets its name, as this is a controller which has been infused by light, complete with glowing rings around both thumbsticks and sleek lines running the length of the grips it’s enough to keep the excitement real.
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This is PDP’s controller hub and allows you to update the firmware of your controller, to check on diagnostics, to set dead zones on the thumbsticks and triggers and more.
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Mapping of such buttons can be done in the free PDP Control Hub App from the Xbox Store. And that’s even with a bit of texturing on the back of the hand grips. Don’t get us wrong, you’re not going to be seeing the Afterglow Wave flying through the air with the greatest of ease, but it’s certainly not as tactile a controller as an official pad is. That lack of grip transcends down onto the pad itself too, and we’ve not found this to be the best pad to keep hold of. A lack of texture or grip means that neither the bumpers or triggers ever feel great in use. There’s plenty of movement in the latter and the former are easy enough to hit, but we couldn’t particularly say we’ve been taken with how PDP have set these up. There are also slightly elongated bumpers on the top face, whilst triggers sit below those. Aside from the black-on-white of the Nexus as opposed to the official white-on-black cues, and the fact that the Share button is round instead of pill-shaped, you’d be hard pushed to spot too much difference between this PDP pad and a more expensive official drop. The usual ABXY facebuttons (fine, but a tad spongy) come in standard size over on the right side of things, whilst the usual Nexus, Menu, View and Share buttons adorn the middle of the controller.