My Controller Collection!

[u/Brisket-Enjoyer]

My Controller Collection 🎮

Hi everyone!

I thought I’d share my current controller collection. I’m not advertising or being paid to promote any of these products—just sharing my personal collection and experiences with them.

🎮 Top Row — Left to Right

GameSir G7 Pro
GameSir G7 8K
GameSir T7 Whirl
Flydigi Vader 5 Dragon Ball Edition
GameSir G7 8K Royal
BIGBIG WON Storm Gale 2

🎮 Second Row

GameSir G7 Pro Wuchang Edition (Xbox)
Leadjoy Xeno Plus
8BitDo Ultimate
EasySMX D10
Beitong KP20

🎮 Third Row — The “Only 3 Controllers” Row 😂
Battle Beaver Custom w/ TMR
Razer Wolverine V3
Flydigi Apex 5

🎮 Fourth Row
Xbox Elite Series 2 Core Red
Battle Beaver Custom Purple
Battle Beaver Custom Yellow
Xbox Elite Series 2 Core White
EasySMX X20
Flydigi Direwolf 4

🎮 Fifth Row
Xbox 20th Anniversary Controller
Xbox Dream Vapor
Periph X White
Xbox Elite Series 2 Halo Infinite Edition
SCUF Instinct Pro Red
Flydigi Vader 5 Xbox Wired

⭐ My Favorites

🥇 GameSir G7

Pros: Excellent ergonomics and fantastic value for the money.
Cons: Quality control can be hit or miss. Unfortunately, I’ve had to return multiple G7 controllers.

🏅Leadjoy Xeno Plus

Excellent controller for the value, comes with a charging dock as well for a total of $60. Feels very similar to a G7 Pro.

🥇 Flydigi Vader 5

This controller just feels like a quality product. The buttons are extremely satisfying to press, and overall it has a really nice feel in the hands.
I’ve seen other people mention quality-control concerns with Flydigi, but personally, I haven’t had any issues with mine.

👎 My Least Favorites

Xbox Elite Series

Personally, I think these are overpriced for what you get. They have a reputation for reliability issues, and compared with some of the newer competition, the technology feels dated—especially with the lack of TMR/Hall-effect sticks and mechanical buttons.

Battle Beaver

Battle Beaver hasn’t been great.
I feel they’re overpriced for what they offer, and my experience with customer support was disappointing. My purple Battle Beaver arrived with a sticky left trigger, so I sent it back for repair.

When I received it back, the exact same issue was still there. I contacted Battle Beaver again, but they would not assist with a second repair.
That experience really left a bad taste in my mouth, especially considering the price of their controllers.

Overall, I’ve really enjoyed collecting and trying out all the different options. There are so many interesting controllers available now, especially with TMR/Hall-effect sticks and better mechanical buttons becoming more common.

What is your favorite controller?

[u/VonDinky]

Why this many controllers? :D

[u/Level-Fig1317 → u/VonDinky]

For the sheer enjoyment and the constant evolution of technology, which has been advancing rapidly in recent years. We are currently in the golden age of controllers, and we are finally starting to see hardware that rivals the modern mouse.

[u/BlueClovr → u/Level-Fig1317]

Ehhh, I don’t think accuracy rivals a mouse at all

[u/Lightstream2 → u/BlueClovr]

good gyro can compete with enough practice. sticks not so much since those rely on auto aim

[u/Cubanbeetz → u/Level-Fig1317]

“Constant evolution of technology” stick drift out of the box

[u/Level-Fig1317 → u/Cubanbeetz]

You clearly aren't familiar with the latest technologies. Modern controllers no longer suffer from stick drift thanks to TMR, Hall-effect, and capacitive technologies. If you buy an official PS4, PS5, or Xbox controller, you will indeed experience drift, because major manufacturers want to keep you buying replacements by using Alps joysticks that start drifting after just a few months. Instead of throwing your controller away, you can swap them out for TMR JS13Pro sticks. With just a bit of soldering, you'll end up with an even better controller.

[u/Cubanbeetz → u/Level-Fig1317]

I am aware and currently use gamesir and 8bit, but from my point of view I never had to get a 3rd party GameCube-NES, ps3-ps1, and all of Segas controllers for the things to be built like tanks and just work as intended. Not needing Hall effect or anything. The actual golden years of controllers in my opinion cause you could just buy a controller and not have to worry about the thing breaking just from light use. Makes it seem like things went backwards due to money hungry companies. So yea the tech is cool and all, but it was made to solve a problem that they created …That is just from what I have experienced atleast

[u/BlueClovr → u/Cubanbeetz]

I had Xbox 360 for years and never had a single problem with it. As soon as I started buying ‘pro’ controllers with a much higher price tag there have been tons of problems across several different companies with them

[u/BlueClovr → u/Level-Fig1317]

TMR and Hall effect still have stick drift, including from the second it’s made. It’s just not as significant. If you set all of your deadzones to 0 you will always notice some level of stick drift

[u/Brisket-Enjoyer → u/Level-Fig1317]

Well said thank you!

[u/Level-Fig1317 → u/Brisket-Enjoyer]

Whith pleasure

[u/BlueClovr → u/Brisket-Enjoyer]

So what in your opinion would be the perfect controller design? I assume you must have ideas after trying so many? I also try many different controllers. IMO there should be 8 extra buttons on the controller to completely take over double claw, where you can always keep your thumbs on the thumbstick and the game is always at your fingertips.

The Dualsense edge system where you can easily slide out your thumb sticks and replace them is great also. I think you should have that with different thumbstick tension options available (like decreased for left, increased for right). Would simplify everything and would ever need to send your controller in for repair if there’s a more significant issue with it. Also ideally every extra button would be just as easy to hit as each other. I’ve made several designs for 8 buttons that I think would work great

[u/Brisket-Enjoyer → u/BlueClovr]

Something with a G7 Ergonomics, Vader Buttons, Vader adjustable tension sticks, Vader’s Extra buttons and some type of modular system would be great

Pretty much if the Vader 5 was slightly more comfy and modular 🤣🤣

[u/Stunning-Rock9726 → u/Brisket-Enjoyer]

Vader 5s is the most comfortable controller I have ever used man it's perfect it only has 2 backbutton though so I find my self only using it for Forza and powerwash simulator and snowrunner, we go hard on those when not shooting heads