Tons of fakes out there. The 2 I've taken apart in the last ~3 months were both fakes purchased on Amazon.
There's online pad testers out there to check deadzone and there's a new page that allows you to calibrate deadzone/range as well. https://dualshock-tools.github.io/
And it seems they're staggering sending them out to keep people talking. The same emails started going out last weekend. They're trying to drag this out.
Maybe. I'll worry if september passes and we have no date/price. For now, they're doing what they said they would 4 years ago when they talked about Apple like strategy and utilizing it with the PRO's release.
Where did he go, if someone knows and is ok with sharing? I noticed a few weeks back he hasn't been around but couldn't find anything from him saying he was going away.
IIRC this is based on that leak from a few days ago that was "debunked". It said PS5 launches in Japan a week before everywhere else which is unlikely.