14 Best Game Controllers (2024) for PC, Switch, PS5, and Xbox

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

Nacon Revolution 5 Pro for $200: 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 beingness and you tin link your headset via Bluetooth oregon plug-in. Unfortunately, it's costly and you don't get the haptic feedback oregon adaptive triggers that you'll find successful Sony's fantabulous DualSense controllers.

Nacon Pro Compact Controller Colorlight for $50: I americium a sucker for translucent tech, truthful this Nacon controller instantly caught my eye. Not lone tin you spot done to the physics innards, but they besides added colored LEDs with lighting effects you tin rhythm through. As the sanction suggests, this is simply a compact controller. The smaller size whitethorn suit kids oregon folks with smaller hands, but I recovered it somewhat uncomfortable aft an hr successful Minecraft. It is besides a wired controller, but you tin tweak instrumentality sensitivity and immoderate different bits and pieces successful the Nacon app, and it’s not excessively pricey.

Power-A Fusion Pro 3 for $78: With a detachable faceplate, nicely textured grips, trigger locks for antithetic depths, swappable thumbsticks, and a agelong detachable cable, this controller has a batch to urge it. The enarthrosis buttons and comparatively precocious terms are wherefore it misses retired connected a spot supra (the GameSir G7 edges it connected value). But this is my daughter’s favourite wired controller due to the fact that she plays with a headset and loves that determination is simply a 3.5mm audio jack with measurement and mute controls. She besides likes the 4 mappable backmost buttons.

Nacon Revolution X Pro for $100: This wired Xbox and PC controller comes with a agelong (around 10 foot), 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 3.5mm 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.

QRD Spark N5 for $49: This affordable PS4 controller has Hall Effect joysticks and triggers, programmable backmost paddles, adjustable LED lights, and decent artillery beingness (around 8 hours). It besides works with Windows, Steam Deck, Android, oregon iOS and tin beryllium utilized to play PS4 games connected PS5 (but not PS5 games). It can’t vie with our prime supra (Scuf) but is simply a decent alternate astatine a 4th of the price. Unfortunately, it feels kinda cheap, with the enarthrosis triggers and D-pad peculiarly disappointing.

QRD Stellar T5 for $59: I emotion the thought down this Nintendo Switch controller. At archetypal glance, it looks similar the authoritative Nintendo Switch Pro Controller above, but you tin instrumentality it isolated to descent your Switch into the middle. The controller boasts Hall Effect joysticks, mechanical switches, adjustable vibration, and LED lights. It besides has a six-axis motion-sensing gyroscope and programmable backmost buttons. It works with Windows, Android, oregon iOS, too. Unfortunately, the triggers are mushy.

Logitech G Pro Racing Wheel for $1,000: 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-gaming 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.

Power-A Advantage Wired Controller with Lumectra for $45: This Xbox Series X/S controller is affordable, and a lengthy (10-foot) detachable cablegram comes successful the box. It feels overmuch similar a regular Xbox controller, but it’s not precise grippy, and I’m not keen connected the enarthrosis triggers. The 3.5mm audio jack is handy, but determination are nary measurement and mute controls (unlike Power-A’s superior Fusion 3). The Lumectra exemplary comes bundled with an RGB airy strip, but we recovered the lights tricky to control, and they often changed unexpectedly. Over time, the detachable USB-C cablegram got rather escaped and occasionally slipped retired successful the mediate of a game.