Faceplate & Touchpad

The media could not be loaded. The eXtremeRate "The Great Wave" Touchpad Front Top Shell is a beautiful and high-quality upgrade that gives your PS5 controller a completely new look and feel. The design is striking—visually unique with vibrant artwork that really stands out in person. Beyond looks, the material feels premium and smooth to the touch, offering just the right amount of grip while still allowing your hand to glide naturally during gameplay.Installation is fairly simple, especially if you're comfortable opening up a controller. Even if you're new to modding, a quick YouTube tutorial will walk you through the process step by step—it can easily be done in under 5-10 minutes. Once installed, everything fits perfectly with no creaks, gaps, or loose parts.Overall, this shell delivers on both aesthetics and comfort. If you’re looking to personalize your controller with a design that reflects your style, this is a great-value upgrade that feels just as good as it looks.

The product quality is really good. Admittedly I think they just hydro dip or vynal wrap regular ps5 factory shells but it looks really nice! I already had one the first time and I’ve had the back on for about a couple years. But one thing to keep in mind is that your colored fronts and backs will get dinghy and like stained dirty. That’s why I got the carbon look, because it’s like glossy and slides well. But on the back it did peal a little but I can’t see or really feel it but other than that it’s really good!

Beautiful look high quality nothing bad to say

The product included everything that was shown and had a smooth gloss finish that I think is a lot better than the matte feeling of the original casing with my controller. It was mostly easy to replace and all the tools needed are included so I didn't scrounge around looking for anything. For the amount paid I am extremely happy with my product.

I love the new look, and it was pretty easy to install while watching the video instructions. BUT today I went to change the two smaller buttons by the touch pad when I found out that it’s now damn near impossible to pry off the face plate without damaging it or the new shell. It’s nice that everything is nice and secure, but I wish I would have known this before assembling it. Make sure you make all changes to your controller on the first go. Ye be warned.

LOVE it!!! But I hated the process. There’s alot to this. I also changed the shell to my Xbox controller, very easy. This took a few hours. If you’re gonna go through this process, might as well change out the buttons, thumbsticks and D-pad. Once you begin you’ll realize the same thing, that you don’t want to do this twice. I have a model kit tool set, makes this much easier. If you don’t have that and don’t want to get that, they provide you with the basic tools you’ll need. Will need a heat gun, no getting around that. Also, their YouTube videos are a HUGE help. But once you put everything back together you forget the hard work and you’ll be happy with your unique controller. It feels great too, not too smooth where it’ll slip out of your hands. Doesn’t feel cheaply made either. No gaps. Like it came from Sony this way. Highly recommend!!!

The overall feel and quality are fairly high, but the thickness of the shell is not quite the same as an original shell, so this results in the face buttons and dpad being less firmly held between their rubber membranes and the front shell. This isn't too much of an issue for the face buttons, because the DualSense also uses a thick rubber piece around all of the buttons that holds them in place. But for the dpad, in my case at least, it was VERY lose even freely rattled around in its slot when fully reassembled. I had to disassemble again, and shim up the dpad itself with some strips of tape in the cross section. Now it fits tightly as it should, but this isn't something that should be an issue on a $20 product that's only half a controller housing.Beyond that, if I had to nitpick, the woodgrain print is a fair bit darker and less pronounced than the product images, and my touchpad grain is a bit distorted and crooked, likely from being dipped at an odd angle when they applied the print.Installation is simple if you are used to taking controllers or other electronics apart, but probably a bit daunting if this is your first project like this, particularly removing the touchpad from the front plastic of an original shell. This is possible to do without a heatgun/hairdryer, but it makes it a bit easier. Also, just a lot of ribbon cables and fiddly parts to potentially break if not careful or comfortable with them, but that's all just on Sony for making the Dualsense so over-engineered.Overall, decent product, but not amazing.

Goes together easily