8BitDo Ultimate C Review: A cheap Switch controller actually worth buying

Hi loved the review, ive never owned a third party controller and joycons are extremely expensive where im from. Have a noob qn - Is it possible to pair multiple ultimate c controllers onto a single switch? Thanks!

This comes across as a perfect 2nd, 3rd and 4th player controller. If you already have the joycons and a Nintendo Pro controller then you can pick 2 of these up and have a full complement of controllers to play Mario Kart 8 etc

Yep scrolling through unfamiliar brand is quite hard. Then I saw this controller, looks nice, watch some reviews and cant wait for it to arrive. There are a lot of positive reviews for this controller. For its price I think its gonna be okay

Good review. The only thing that's missing is some more body language.

I'd say the reason they didn't put a decent bevel in that middle gap is down to cost. Part of the reason they got it down to $30 likely just comes down to how much of the molding for the Ultimate they're able to reuse.

Personally, the lack of Amiibo support isn't that bad, just considering that it's both cheap and wireless; something that we were lacking on the Switch for a very long time.

On a bit of a tangent from that, I'm not seeing much reason for someone to grab a Switch Pro Controller at full price nowadays. A bit cheaper and you can get a better d-pad, sacrificing HD Rumble (which few games make good use of) and NFC (but if you have a right joycon, you're probably fine without.) For the same price or a bit more, you can get a similarly good d-pad and now hall effect sticks, memory/turbo functions, and maybe grip buttons. Meanwhile the Switch Pro Controller has a mushy d-pad and sticks that start drifting over time and have snap-back issues out of the box.

At the end of the day, I think we all grab peripherals for comfort reasons, and sometimes that might just mean grabbing whatever the official option is, but if these options were available at launch and I knew enough about 'em all, I think I would've grabbed anything but the Pro Controller.