Saitek P3000 Wireless PC Game Pad & Docking Station
by Saitek
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Customer Review: wish i read these reviews before buying
Summary: 1 Stars
bought this particular item from another website. should've checked out amazon's reviews first. like everyone else, i received a defective battery. i actually shipped the gamepad back and got a replacement from the vendor. and the replacmenet sucks just as bad.
while the batteries seems to work, the gamepad has massive calibration problems, even with Saitek's recommended fixes. it takes me about five minutes of fiddling around the analog sticks, unplugging/replugging the batteries, for it to work properly. i've only had it (the second gamepad) for a few weeks, and it only seems to get worse.
this is the worst product i've ever bought, and i will never buy a product from Saitek again.
(btw, if you include the return shipping charges, i've spent over fifty dollars on this gamepad. last week, circuit city had a rebate for it to make it less than twenty total. hey saitek - you suck!)
i strongly urge amazon to discontinue carrying this product.
Customer Review: Poor quality in battery life and operation
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this unit and the two batteries stopped charging after 2 weeks. I was sent 2 more from Saitek and after 1 week these both stopped as well..... This is not worth the time and effort, look into other productsCustomer Review: Batteries are horrible
Summary: 1 Stars
The proprietary battery packs have horrible cells in them which you can immediately tell if you open one up. Unfortunately they are non standard length... shorter than a AAA so they cannot be replaced without serious modifications to the pack... more trouble than it is worth. Both of my battery packs are bad and I have hardly used it.Customer Review: Buy Something Else
Summary: 1 Stars
This controller is a piece of junk. One of the two batteries took one charge and then went totally dead. The other battery works fine as long as you charge it right before you play. If the battery sits in or out of the controller for more than an hour, it loses it's charge. This means that even with two batteries, I have to plan ahead to use it, so the battery will have some juice in it.
Saitek claims it works up to thirty feet away from the base. The key phrase is "up to". Mine works from five feet away IF I have line of sight to the base. (Which I don't get since it's RF not IR.) With no line of sight, you need to be right next to the base and might as well have bought a nicer wired pad.
The pad itself is well designed, has plenty of buttons and comes with easy to use software. If the wireless part worked half as well as they claim, it would be a good buy. But it doesn't and it's not.
I have since bought the Logitech Wireless Controller, and although the pad itself is not as comfortable to use, has fewer buttons and doesn't have rechargeable batteries, I'm MUCH happier with it. The Saitek Wireless Pad is a good idea gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Customer Review: battery problems, poor performance
Summary: 2 Stars
1 of the 2 rechargable batteries it came with didn't work right out of the box. After over a month, the second battery started having problems; for example, I'd have to keep on re-inserting it into the gamepad or the recharger before it recognized it was in.
I contacted customer support about the problem. They said my batteries were defective and that they would mail me new ones. I never received it, and this was months ago.
There are other problems too. The calibration of the analog sticks gets messed up during gameplay occassionally. Sometimes, the buttons aren't responsive; you press a button and it either doesn't register or registers late. Lastly, the rubber on the analog sticks wear out badly after a year (I don't even use it that much b\c of the battery problems).
The feel of the gamepad alone is good though. The buttons are in comfortable places, and there are enough of them to be able to setup most games. Unfortunately, the performance\quality isn't good.