8BitDo Pro 3 Bluetooth Controller for Switch Switch 2 TMR Joysticks Swappable ABXY Buttons Pro Back Buttons Charging

The media could not be loaded. Overall this is a great controller that includes a lot of functionality within it. First and foremost, it has a dock, whilst this might be a turn off for some people, I personally love it! It gives me a spot and space to have the controller rather losing it somewhere in a desk. Secondly, that dock acts as the receiver for the controller allowing for even faster input time compared to bluetooth. This also makes connectivity seamless and fast, the second I pick the controller off the dock it just connects. The next thing I really like about this is the build quality, I had the pro 2 and its just a level above it. It has a more tactile feeling d-pad that I love, the controller feels more hefty, the toggle for the trigger, and the extra buttons are all just a plus. Finally, this controller is very customizable. My bloodline comes from a long lineage of Playstation players so we are all just used to the X, O, Triangle, Square button layout. With this controller I am able to swap the faces on the buttons to match that exact layout and that's just amazing. It also has the ability to swap out different joysticks which would likely help a FPS player who needs a more precise joystick. Read more

I have waited a long time since the Horipad Steam Controller for any manufacturer to step up to the plate and add Steam Input as an option on a controller that has great build quality for 70$ it lacked Gyro Support, Rumble, it also did not have a good USB-C to USB-A controller that would disconnect at points but I still thought something like this needed to exist on the market and there was potential for someone else to do it correctly. 8BitDo has answered my call and went beyond expectations. I will go into the main points of why anyone should get it and also what they can improve for the future. 1.Steam Input, which is the main selling point it is extremely helpful. I can remap the extra buttons on the back and on the shoulder buttons. Absolutely easy with D-Input enabled in the back of the controller. Also Steam will go into Big Picture Mode if you hold the Pixel Heart on the lower right when in D-Input mode. Both of these features do work on Windows. 2.The ability to easily move around the Face Buttons easily with a puller without needing to buy another controller for the Xbox Face Buttons or to switch it back to Nintendo. Face Buttons are magnetic, and they are strong. You would need to throw a controller against the wall or really use your nails to open them. This went beyond my expectations. 3. Can move from Xbox(S-X), D-Input(D) and Switch(S) very easily by sliding the toggle left or right and it is very straightforward and easy to understand when looking behind the controller including if you are in BT mode or 2.4GHZ if you are not on a Wired connection. 4. TMR Joysticks do feel really premium and the Precision is on point when moving the Joystick around which is a natural evolution of the Hall Effect Joystick. 5. Rumble feels like Full HD Rumble and not just HD Rumble 6. D-Pad has such an excellent Tactile feeling more so than the Pro 2, and I like the tiny satisfying click noise it makes when I move the D-Pad. 7. The Gyro Support is great and it works much better than the Pro 2 even though that was perfect already. I tried it on my Switch for Mario Odyssey and found no issues. Improvements for the future. 1. Add a 8.5-10 ft USB-C to USB-A cable Braided Cable in the box. I understand the Pro 3 has so many features and has better build quality that they most likely had to cut costs somewhere, but it would have been nice to have this. Maybe this can be in the next generation of the Pro Controller Lineup. 2. Add Steam Input to Wireless 2.4GHZ as well. Currently it only supports Bluetooth and Wired. A firmware update would help alleviate this for 8BitDo Controllers especially 8BitDo Pro 3 owners. 3. Face Buttons would be a good idea to sell for this controller if anyone loses the default ones that came with the controller or wishes to customize their Face Buttons. If there was even potentially a way to get Sony Inspired Icons or even the SNES Inspired would be cool. 4. I would like to also politely ask for Linux Support as it seems to only fully support Windows and SteamOS. Other than that. I do think this is a great controller and well worth the price. The pro's outweighs most cons given as a whole. I still give it a 5* because it is hard to find fault with this controller and anything else can easily be supported or fixed in the future. Read more

Have wanted a controller with the dpad in the main position (PS layout) for a while that has a good dpad. I can live with either position for the sticks, it's just the dpad I care more about the position of. Others are either really expensive swappable ones or just don't have a great dpad or bad latency (Tarantula pro). This is finally just what I wanted. I love this controller. I bought a wired pro 2 g classic before and the dpad just sucked. Maybe it was a bad one. But I haven't bought another 8bitdo controller since because I didn't trust their ability to make a good dpad. But this one is perfect. Easy to press down but still won't actuate any direction that you don't want. Perfectly precise and you can feel every direction that gets pressed, and a very quiet click. It still does the thing of being able to press down the middle of the dpad and press down all of the directions at once but it doesn't actually matter in this case. Gave it a try for platforming (Celeste) and fighting (Mortal Kombat 1). Flawless in both cases. Good amount of extra buttons, triggers swappable to analog or digital clicks, swappable face buttons that are very secure. Joysticks center perfectly and have very low deadzone (could use a bit more tension though). Unable to detect any latency from just looking at screen and pressing buttons (both from 2.4ghz on pc and bluetooth on switch 2). This is basically my dream controller. This is now the controller I will use for absolutely everything. Yes, the face buttons are clackety and kinda loud. I don't care, you might. And it would be nice if it woke the switch 2 but it's not enough to make me feel negatively in any way. Read more