This review covers the wired Fighting Commander OCTA for PS5, PS4 and Windows. Its six face buttons and octagonal stick gate suit fighting-game inputs, but it is not a general-purpose DualSense replacement. HORI excludes rumble and motion, and the touchpad and headset connection do not work on PC.
Every individual review scores five axes in 0.25 increments. The composite is the mean of the five - no weighting tricks.
Feel in hand, material choice, long-term durability.
Stick precision, deadzone behavior, drift resistance over the test period.
Button feel, d-pad accuracy, input latency.
Wireless reliability, battery life, cross-platform support.
MSRP versus feature set versus long-term durability.
Arithmetic mean of the five subscores above. No weighting - a controller that scores 4.5 across every axis lands the same composite as one that scores 5.0 in three and 4.0 in two.
Verify controller performance with GPADLAB diagnostic tools.
Evidence status: First-hand test duration is not verified for this review. Last reviewed: 2026-09-25. Ratings are editorial assessments, not laboratory scores. Manufacturer specifications and named third-party results are not GPADLAB measurements.
The layout puts six actions under your thumb or fingers. Try the button combinations your character uses most often. A useful layout for one game may feel awkward in another.
The octagonal gate gives the stick distinct directional edges. That is a shape choice, not proof that every diagonal will register correctly for every player. We removed unsupported claims of a universal D-pad fault and tournament results tied to an unverified exact model.
This page covers the wired PS5/PS4/PC edition. Do not transfer features from the Wireless OCTA Pro or a similarly named Xbox pad. Our earlier right-stick slide-pad entry was not established for this model and has been removed.
HORI lists a roughly 230 g weight, not the earlier 210 g figure. The included USB cable is about 3 m long, so check your seating distance.
HORI specifies XInput games on Windows 10 and 11. It explicitly excludes the touchpad and headset/microphone jack on PC. Connect your headset to the PC instead.
There is also no rumble or motion sensor. If your library needs those features, keep a general-purpose pad alongside this fightpad rather than expecting one layout to cover every game.
Consider this OCTA if a six-button face layout is more useful to you than two full analog sticks and feedback effects. Match the platform edition before buying; the Wireless OCTA Pro and Xbox models have different features.
Not every controller fits every buyer. If this one isn't quite right, these might be.
No. This is the wired PlayStation edition, not Wireless OCTA Pro.
No. HORI excludes the headset/microphone jack and touchpad on PC.
HORI lists about 230 g.
No. The cited model spec excludes vibration and motion sensing.