Best Game Controllers for PC, Switch, PS5, and Xbox

Other Game Controllers to Consider

There are so galore crippled controllers retired there, but not each of them are bully capable to marque the database above. These are the different controllers we person tested recently.

Nacon Revolution 5 Pro: This highly customizable PS5 controller boasts Hall Effect sticks and triggers, programmable backmost paddles, and a large D-pad. You tin tweak the weight, instrumentality magnitude and grips, and adjacent the trigger actuation. It boasts a 10-hour artillery life, and you tin link your headset via Bluetooth oregon plug-in. Unfortunately, it's expensive, and you don't get the haptic feedback oregon adaptive triggers that you'll find successful Sony's fantabulous DualSense controllers.

Logitech G Pro Racing Wheel: WIRED exertion Parker Hall raved astir Logitech’s racing instrumentality accessory, and racing crippled fans with heavy pockets volition emotion it. It adds a furniture of world to your in-game driving with unit feedback and vibrations that assistance you consciousness each surface. The cogwheel displacement paddles person Hall Effect sensors. There is besides an OLED show that enables you to tweak settings without opening the app.

Nacon Revolution X Pro: This wired Xbox and PC controller comes with a agelong (around 10 feet), detachable, braided USB-C cable. Nacon offers an awesome level of customization, including interchangeable thumbsticks, programmable backmost buttons, and weights to assistance you get the consciousness you want. The Profile fastener lets you rhythm done 4 presets, a power toggles configurations, and it has a 3.5-mm headphone jack. You tin tweak everything successful the flaky Revolution X app for Xbox oregon PC. While it works well, I don’t emotion the inexpensive consciousness (even with adjusted weight), and the rear triggers are awkward. At afloat price, the Revolution X Pro is excessively costly for a wired controller, but discounts are frequent.

GameSir Cyclone 2: The GameSir Cyclone 2 is ace awesome for its price. Its layout is styled similar an Xbox controller but with a fewer other bells and whistles. It has 2 rear paddle buttons that tin beryllium customized, and hairsbreadth triggers with a carnal power wrong each to swap betwixt abbreviated and agelong actuation points. It besides comes programmed with a ton of shortcuts to tweak things similar vibration intensity, fastener layout, and power instrumentality dormant zones connected the fly. For astir gamers, the newer, upgraded G7 Pro volition beryllium worthy the $25 terms difference.

8BitDo Ultimate: This feature-packed controller from 8BitDo has tons to connection astatine a tenable price. At archetypal glance, it looks similar an Xbox controller, but it has 5 cardinal buttons connected the beforehand and a brace of rear paddles. It boasts a big of customization options to suit your play style. Using 8BitDo’s software, you tin remap buttons, tweak the instrumentality and trigger sensitivity, delegate macros, and tune the vibration intensity. There's an updated mentation of this controller disposable and we'll update present erstwhile we get a accidental to trial it.

Charging Accessories

Wireless controllers are great, but you bash person to retrieve to complaint them. If you don’t privation to messiness with cables, a charging dock is the way. After investigating several, we person immoderate recommendations.

The authoritative Sony charging presumption is the champion for DualSense controllers. It is compact, charges 2 controllers, and frees up your PS5's ports. Slotting your controllers into spot is simply a breeze, with palmy docking marked by a click.

This stylish charging presumption is for wireless Xbox Series X|S oregon Xbox One controllers and comes with artillery packs and replacement doors. The molded integrative makes it casual to descent your controllers into, and you tin pat the apical to alteration the lighting. The lone drawback is that it is bulky.

This charging basal tin complaint a Switch Pro controller and 2 Joy-Cons. It is elemental to use, though you indispensable insert a USB dongle into the Pro controller. I really somewhat similar Power-A’s charging dock, which is much compact than the base, but it is retired of banal astatine the moment. If you lone request Joy-Con charging, effort the HyperX Chargeplay Quad ($15).