Oliver SterlingVerified Gamepad Tester team member

Oliver runs endurance trials. A controller that feels excellent in the shop can lose its button feel in months, so his testing deliberately pushes mechanical face-button switches, bumpers and triggers through extended, repeated actuation to see how quickly tactility and elasticity fall away. The same approach applies to stick modules and to the rubber on the sticks themselves.

On Gamepad Tester he contributes the long-term reliability side of the buying guides, and verifies answers about buttons that have gone soft, mushy or inconsistent with age.