Customizable dang, you will never need another controller

As much as I can take advantage of the Modern Dualsense PS5 controller, I wonder what could have been so Sony had continued to iteration of his former Dualshock conception. The 8bit pro 3 tells us that there was so much more to give. The controllers of the peripheral maker’s pro series give a look that somehow combines the arrangement of the dualshock thumbstick with an old -fashioned and flat -body gamepad snes. If its starting and selection pimples varying do not trigger nostalgia, I do not know what would. The 8bit Pro 3 has twin arms that adapt better to adult -sized hands than any old PlayStation controller. And just like the 8bit Pro 2 of 2021, you can get the gamepad in a familiar style white, a Purple gamecube, or a PlayStation gray, but it is now delivered with an ultimate 2 styles connection port, which doubles a load support and an easy connection port of 2.4 GHz to play on PC, Mac or steam bridge.

Any controller who wants to be called “Pro” needs a connection to 2.4 GHz for a lower latency. The rear buttons and a rocking switch in “haptic” clicose triggers are now so standard that it is difficult to return to a basic Xbox controller. But you do not reach a business first like 8bito if you want to surpass opponents Call of duty. Instead, the 8bit Pro 3 works as a switch striker between the Nintendo and Switch 2, PC, Mac, IOS and Android switch. Really important to note: the pro 3 doesn’t Connect with the PlayStation or Xbox consoles. The front buttons A, B, X and Y of pro 3 are all magnetic. The controller is delivered with a small rubber dooohickey tool with a magnet you use to exchange your buttons as you wish. This means that you can use the 8Bitdo Pro 3 in the Nintendo or Xbox switching provisions without only having to count on muscle memory. The Pro 3 is not as modular as the Turtle Beach Victrix Pro BFG at $ 200, which allows you to completely reconfigure the arrangement of the controller with magnetic modules, but for $ 70, there are few controllers which are almost as customizable.

The withdrawal tool and the additional buttons are found in the underside of the load support. The deletion of buttons simply forces you to press the suction cup for each switch, then to draw them at a time. With the new reintegrated buttons, I could not make them shirts with my nails, no matter how much I dug. In addition, you can also remove the caps from the thumb. 8bit included two ball caps as you could find on a Japanese -style arcade stick. You need a little fingertips to release and fix the thumb caps, but once they were lit, I did not feel any amount of loose rocking on regular or arcade attachments. Honestly, I would be surprised if someone used them for something, not to mention the fighting games, but he looks very cute that comes out of the controller, as if he combined three game eras in a single entrance device.

Compared to the Hall effect joysticks on the latest generation pro 2 controller, the pro 3 uses TMR or the tunneling magnetoresist sticks. Hall Effect uses a magnetic field to detect the orientation of the stick. These sticks are much more resistant to the inevitable drift caused by older conceptions with more contact points. TMR is more an evolution of the hall effect, although so few controllers use technology, and promises to be more precise than the hall effect while consuming much less power. What all this means in practice is that Pro 3 should last longer, both in terms of battery life and long -term use. The controller is home to a 1,000 mAh battery, which is technically lower than you find on controllers like the DualSense PlayStation. Sony’s PS5 controller normally lasts just over three to four hours, at best. The 8bit Pro 3 has propelled a three -hour switch 2 -hour session plus several hours of testing on PC before the battery indicator becomes red. The addition of the load quay means that you should not have to worry a lot of juice, as long as you keep it connected and nearby.

What matters more than joystick technology is the way sticks really feel on your thumbs. They are more rigid than some early and twisting joysticks. Each return to the center without an accidental pinch of entry that you get on cheaper controllers, which tend to “rubber band” when they are released. In games on Switch 2 as Donkey Kong Bananzarun feels effortlessly and catchy. If you plan to take this controller in Call of duty Multiplayer, know that there are other high -end controllers that can offer more for really competitive games.

The triggers of-Pad and Hall-Effect are also exemplary. All directions on the D-PAD feel SnAPPY, and I had no problem with the missed entries depending on where I pressed the buttons. The L2 and R2 buttons include a switch to pass clicky triggers in analog triggers. In the concern of switch games, they feel even better than the switch 2 pro controller. Its six-axis gyro-axis commands are just as precise as the $ 90 pro device from Nintendo and the GamePad Ultimate 2 8Bitdo Ultimate. The platform uses USB-C and includes the USB-C 2.4 GHz dongle inside. You do not even need to remove the dongle from the hold for faster connection speeds, by reading on flawless PC. If you plan to use a 2.4 GHz connection to Switch, you can activate the option if you keep the SELECT and LB buttons for a few seconds, but that aggravates the experience because it deactivates motion controls and rumble. If you use it for Switch, you inevitably opt for Bluetooth, and you can always use the controller from afar. The distance indicated is 10 meters, and I could always connect to a 2 switch on the other side of my apartment through several walls and doors.

The rest of the buttons have a punch and a click that can deactivate some people who do not want to annoy their partner by reading next to them on the sofa, but I am a player who prefers to feel each button press. The 8bit Pro 3 is the little high -end controller he claims to be, except for his software. The “Ultimate 8Bitdo software” is rudimentary but useful for defining dead areas on the sticks or mapping your buttons on up to three profiles accessible from a button between the two inches. However, the installation of the software and connect it to the controller on PC or mobile can be pain.

Just like with Pro 2, it is again disappointing that there is no version of the controller compatible with Xbox or PlayStation. The rare 40th anniversary Ultimate 3 is the first Xbox wireless controller in 8bitdo, so there can be hope for future versions specific to the console. If I had other options, this controller could easily be my go-to for switch 2 and PC. But until 8bit finds a way to help him wake up the Switch 2, he can’t really be my one and only.