Why is Everyone Buying This Controller?

There are too many controllers to choose from, but we’re here to guide you to some of the best ones available. Whether you’re on PC, Playstation or Xbox, we have budget and premium options for you, and we were surprised to find our favorite one was less than $30. LESS THAN THIRTY DOLLARS! It has hall effect sensors for Gosh’s Sake!

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0:00 Intro
1:06 Why is everything XBOX
1:48 Does it make *Dual*sense?
2:41 WHY is everyone buying this Logitech?
3:53 8BitDo doing it right
5:07 8bitdo doing it right-er-er
7:19 Input Latency Chart
8:29 Back to Gaming
12:38 Which Controller are you getting?

[Landscape_]

playing subnautica with that controller is the ultimate inmersive experience

[danilodjurovic]

I'm not an aggressive person, but if you gave me 5 minutes with the person that decided to put 4cent potentiometers in 100E+ controllers, I would be locked away for a long time.

[Potato_n_Tomato]

8bitdo is absolutely goated. Great dpad, low input lag, hall effect sticks, cheap, Wukog design, etc.

The only problem is the angle of the sides

[doctorobvyous]

I participated in FIRST robotics in highschool. My team was entirely self funded, zero recognition from the school. The F310 was a more than servicable input device for prototyping, testing features, and even for use in competition. Sometimes you dont need a perfect controller, sometimes you just need cheap and easy input devices.

[Cronosonic]

The reason people like the F310's D-pad is because it's a _Sega-style_ pad, which a lot of people swear by due to functioning in a different way from Nintendo-style d-pads. There's very few controllers these days that use a Sega-style d-pad, outside of actual throwback pads like 8Bitdo's own M30 pad or Retro-Bit's Sega controllers, such as the Saturn Pro (which has hall effect sticks!)
Edit: Just for additional context for those who don't wanna look at the replies: It's the "floating" d-pad style that still feels good to use but also provides better feel and handling for diagonals, which is why a lot of fighting game players prefer it, but it's good for any game where you don't want analog control but also better handling for complex digital inputs.

[ShreddedShredder]

The fact that wireless latency is shorter than wired latency is just crazy.

[pederikodelaguza]

I have f310 for more than 10 years and works as day 1. You can buy 2 or 3 for the price of others. I mostly never use d pad except for inventory/map kind of thing in rpgs. Great budget option!

I also like your chair

[Forlong]

That Logitech controller is a staple of robotic teams also

[brittb]

It really does need to be said more often: "disposable batteries" can also be "rechargeable batteries." We've had rechargeable AAs since before I was born. Frankly, they're the more ecological option, compared to "battery life has run out, time to through out the whole controller."

[silokhawk]

The 8bitdo d-pad is modeled after the SNES one, which gamers who use it over the stick swear by.
The Xbox d-pad being low and clicky is because most modern games only use it now for hotkeys. It's not ideal for primary use.
I feel like you'd have to be one of those people who would boot up a NES emulator and play games with the stick to somehow think the 8bitdo/Logitech d-pad is subpar.

[Hexumonium]

We gotta talk about haptics and whatnot. I've noticed that controllers at the $30 price point don't vibrate whatsoever. Am I wrong? Why did this feature go unmentioned?

[katonbot]

They just casually skipped the fact that the dualsense has the second lowest latency while in bluetooth and somehow has worse latency in wired mode lmao

[RavenGlenn]

I'm glad 8bitdo is getting the respect they deserve, but the 8bitdo Pro 2 is the best damn controller around.

[Frieze_XD]

2:56 I honestly thought the Logitech controller was even older than that

[draxrdax]

As i am someone with big hands, i find the F710 an almost perfect fit. I would have preferred if it was a bit wider too, since my shoulders are also large and i have to slouch a bit to be able to properly hold it. Battery life is very good (about 3 months of using it 2-6h per day) but i'm not using the rumbles. Very responsive and wakes up on pressing a button, goes to sleep after a minute or so of not pressing any button. On PC is immediately identified by any game as "Xbox controller" and had no issues with compatibility.

[IceTypes]

I think Linus didn't stress how important hall-effect joysticks are to a controller. They allow the close to zero dead zone and, most importantly, they last the lifetime of the controller. Stick drift is a huge problem, both Microsoft and Sony faced class action lawsuits for their faulty analog sticks.
I cycled through 3 Xbox controllers in 5 years due to this problem. I have my 8bitdo (ultimate Bluetooth edition) for 2, 5 years and it's good as new.

[LordHonkInc]

The first third-party controller that really impressed me was the 8bitdo SN30 Pro. Once the Ultimate with the Hall-effect sticks came out, it was a no-brainer. Hands down _the_ best controller I've ever had. Keep your HD rumble, keep your haptic triggers, I will not go back to first party controllers until they can match this level of quality for less than fifty bucks.

[Laggex_]

8BitDo owner here. if you’re a casual gamer and need a solid controller - i would very much recommend it. docking station makes it a lot better. when you’re done you just put controller down and you don’t even think about charging

[ExtraTrstl]

I haven't tried it personally but hear me out:

The floating D-Pad on that Logitech sounds AWESOME. Because you're not grabbing the controller with hands straight on, but at an angle. Put your hands out like you're holding an "air controller" and Move your left thumb "up", it doesn't go up but performs a small arc with a not insignificant curve to it. The floating d-pad will track your thumb as it's actually moving across the controller (again, not having used it) theoretically allowing for a more natural movement, especially when moving between d-pad directions (think, 180 move from "up to down"). It moving also helps prevent those thumbs sores which are a result of this very phenomenon - stiff, immutable d-pads and a higher-than-needed applied force with your thumb used to compensate for the angled movement (i.e., you push harder to ensure you're rotating the "right" way on the d-pad).


I think it might be less specific for purely directional button presses (i.e., hitting "left then up then left" rather than a singular movement of left-to-up-to-left) but otherwise I'm... realllly interested in that floating d-pad design.

[sidewalkere]

6 years old F310 here. Cost me 25€ and it still works pretty much like in the first day.
Cheap, indestructible tech that just works is my favorite kind of tech.