Nintendo’s terrific Switch Pro Controller is $20 off through Black Friday

Nintendo precocious announced a batch of Black Friday deals, each of which tally done November 30th. This includes a steep discount connected the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, which drops it to an all-time debased of $49.99 ($20 off) astatine Best Buy and Target. This is 1 of the much notable Black Friday discounts from Nintendo this twelvemonth — that is, speech from the existent promo connected The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Nintendo’s latest Switch OLED bundle — namely due to the fact that the Pro Controller seldom goes connected sale, adjacent 7 years aft its release.

Although determination are galore large third-party gamepads available, the Switch Pro Controller remains the champion all-around controller for Nintendo’s aging console. It’s overmuch much comfy to usage a full-size controller than a brace of Joy-Cons for extended hours, and its larger sticks are acold much accurate. It besides features a due D-pad alternatively of 4 idiosyncratic buttons and parity with Nintendo’s Joy-Con controllers, meaning you get gyro controls, HD rumble, and Amiibo support.

Other controllers, similar Gulikit’s King Kong series, person immoderate of these features and one-up the Pro Controller with drift-free Hall effect sticks and immoderate customizability. However, they don’t supply quite the aforesaid foolproof, plug-and-play acquisition arsenic Nintendo’s gamepad, which you tin manus to a kid and cognize everything volition work.

While Nintendo precocious came retired to denote that its adjacent console volition beryllium backward-compatible with Switch games, it hasn’t said what that means for accessories similar the Pro Controller. There’s a accidental that it volition not beryllium 100 percent compatible with the successor to the Switch, but since it uses an unfastened protocol similar Bluetooth, there’s truly nary crushed it shouldn’t. That is, unless Nintendo drastically changes thing with its wireless controller setup oregon truly wants america to acquisition caller controllers. (Fingers crossed it doesn’t travel to that.)