10 Of The Worst Video Game Controllers Of All Time
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Over the years, we’ve seen all manner of machines that allow us to play video games, from timeless classics to the outright ridiculous. Where there are consoles, naturally there are controllers, which have evolved from minimalistic pieces of hardware to highly technical bits of kit in just a few short decades. But not all of them are winners, from The Duke to the U Force here are the 10 of the Worst Video Game Controllers of All Time!
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Script: Cat Elliot (@cat_elliott_)
Video Editor: Lean Bacalzo (@LeanBacalzo)
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Hmm, not sure the sixaxis, the Duke, the Kinect or the U-Force belong on a list of worst games controllers. And the worst controller is a third-party knock off N64 controller? There are cheap crappy alternative controllers for literally every games system, so if that's the low bar of entry they could have all been made by Mad Catz.
🤣🤣mad catz are EXPENSIVE though
@@Darkest_matter So much of their stuff was absolute crap though. They weren't all Capcom Vs Tatsunoko fight sticks, unfortunately.
The n64 already has a subpar controller so a cheaper version would be shit
Guys, what’s with your audio this time around? It’s freakishly quiet in a…weird way. The whole audio needs to be passed through a mixing/mastering plugin, I had to put my TV to halfway max just to hear it properly, and that’s usually not a problem with your videos!
If you need help, I do audio engineering and I’d fix it for free. 🤷🏼♀️
The subtitles are messed up too. Seems like they really rushed this one out.
Totes agreed, I can't listen to you with an open window, unless I move the regular audio setup on my Windows from 80 to 100%.
Almost like some kind of weird compression going on? Every now and then some syllables are a lot louder than the rest of her voice.
I can barely hear it over the music. Maybe the intro ruined my ears.
Literally unwatchable for me. It's like Ashton's voice is at the volume level the background music should be, and the background music is at the volume her voice should be.
LOTS of people _bought_ the Powerglove when I was a kid in the '80s, Ash. The problem was most of them _returned it_ after a couple weeks. lol
Mabye your area 😂 I never saw one in the wild.. Im not even 100% sure if I knew it was real before the avgn episode ( I lived in Norway so I'm not sure how big it was over here since I was 5 in 1990)
@@mullaoslo I'm in the US so yes there _were_ tons of them in my area.😅
@@mullaoslo Oh yeah. That gaming abomination existed, my dude.
It's a fun collectible now, but nobody is using it for its intended purpose, at which, it's absolutely shite.
A buddy of mine had one and I was convinced it was the only way to play Top Gun.
stupid kids....I never had any desire to own one, it looked like garbage in The Wizard, it looked like garbage in the commercials
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Many moons ago, the Gaming Historian made a video about the Power Glove. Apparently, the original prototype (developed before Mattel got their hands on it) used different sensors and actually worked really well... but would've been really expensive to mass-produce. So, Mattel changed just about everything to make the Power Glove more affordable. And we all know how that turned out
Somebody once upon a time made a driver to use one with a PC by wiring up a NES controller port to a serial port. It still wasn't the greatest thing ever but it worked a lot better with a PC that could process data whole lot faster than an NES could.
the audio is crappy got my PC turned up to 100 and still having a hard time hearing
Same. You really need to boost the audio when recording this video. Did someone forget to plug in there microphone again??
The audio mixing in this video is terrible 😔
Yuh 😭
The xbox controllers were really bizzare.
The sixaxis don’t belong to this list, even being a step back on the dualshock, the controller were still good and funcional
As someone who always turns off rumble and prefers lighter controllers, I actually liked the Sixaxis. For most, it's light weight is considered to be a negative.
@@iwokeupexhausted the dualshock 3 was the same as sixaxis but without rumble
Never had an issue with the sixaxis. Actually preferred the lighter feel due to the lack of a rumble pack. Better battery life too.
Whoever did the audio mixing for this video needs to go back to... audio mixing school.
The Duke kinda rocks once you’re used to it! And this is coming from someone with somewhat smaller hands. I can’t get as comfortable with the “S” controller no matter how hard I try. Not to mention the second controller butchered the white and black buttons. The placement was bad, but worse what that they made them small and sunken in too far. Games like GTA where you need to press both, or one of them plus the fire button for drive bys, are kinda ruined by the revised controller. I beat III and Vice City without cheats for the first time ever on a Duke. So it’ll always be my first choice for Xbox
The Duke is awesome. Then again I am 6'5 and my feet are size 15 so you can probably guess how big my hands are. Really is the perfect controller for me but I realize it's too big for some people.
I used to have one modded to work on PC.
I liked the Duke as well, I even bought the Duke made by Hyperkin to use with my XBOX ONE.
The voiceover here is REALLY quiet
I was endowed with massive hands. The duke was perfect for me lol
I liked the Duke. I didn't own an OG Xbox, but my buddy did and I always used the Duke although we had come up with 3 of the smaller controlelrs
Yeah, I hated it as a kid but now it is my prefered way to play Xbox
@@ExExister I think I was 18 or so before I even played an xbox, so I can definitely see how kids would have found it difficult to use. I was technically an adult, though... kinda...
The O.G Xbox controller is one of my favourites of all time.
That's actually what pushed me towards that over the PS2.
Yeah, I really liked the duke, fit my big old hands like a dream
I don't remember feeling for either one way or another. They're both cool.
But hey, trying to go back and forth from my PS2 to my my buddy's Xbox was the teething problem.
It had the adverse effect for too many others. In fact, I remember thinking maybe I didn’t like the Duke because I was too young/my hands were too small when it was first released, so I gave it another shot in my 20s, and.... it was even worse than I remembered.
I remember when I was around 9 or 10 I saw the Duke and tried to use it to play an Xbox at a target or Walmart or something…it made me so mad that I could barely reach the buttons if I held it normally! It was probably a level of anger that was irrational but man it soured my opinion on Xbox for years
Imagine saying the Sixaxis is 10 top worst controller. I think you just needed filler and didn't have 10 controllers to use. There's A LOT of 3rd controllers that are absolutely horrible and you chose sixaxis?
LMFAO
It's what happens when your writers are early-20 year-olds
3rd party controllers would make up the top 1000 if you wanted to get whiny about it. And it's all opinion, there isn't really some arbitration court out there making these judgments.
The duke was so fun, I was about 13 when we got one and it was huge but I could handle it just fine. The issue with the size was that Microsoft had no experience with controllers like this and didn’t overlap the boards that had the buttons coming through. This meant that the controller had to be huge to contain both of the boards at their full span. The S controller learned from this and crossed over the boards which is why they were able to fit all of the buttons etc on a smaller form factor.
I like the Scott the Woz screen grab of the boomerang 64 with the marshmallow on the joystick.
No mention of the Coleco Sports controller? That thing makes the Jag Pad look like a NES pad
That was such a cool looking controller at the time though, considering the 2600 came with a joystick with one button and those paddle controllers.
The Colecovision had all of these cool accessories, that sports controller, the steering wheel, the trackball. I think Atari later released a trackball for the 5200 and the home computersm but was just them trying to catch up.
13:40 the perfect controller for gex night
You don't hold The Duke, the Duke holds you.
These ideas were probably suggested to some executives who didn't play games and couldn't see the problems due to the dollar signs in their eyes.
I had a UForce, and even for slow paced games like Ultima Quest of the Avatar the sensors were not up to the task.
I think that early PS3 controllers lacked the rumble feature, but later on this was included.
I can’t believe that they didn’t even mention the GameCube Resident Evil Chainsaw controller or the Wu-Tang W Controller! 🤦♂️🤷♂️
I have to disagree with the Duke. I must have big hands, because it fits me perfectly. With a USB adaptor and driver it works fine on Win10/11.
Also, there is a rerelease that gives it more buttons and a proper usb connection
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The 1 thing the Duke does better than any controller since; is it's rumble.
I prefer the Duke, but I have massive hands. Lol
After playing my OG XBox for the first time in ages, I must say the 'Duke' is actually pretty damn good to use (IMO)
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Atari 5200 controller. Its biggest problem was that the joystick wouldn't stay centered (in a neutral position) when it was left alone. This meant that it was always in either the up, down, left, or right position.
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Appreciate not a lot of people liked it but I never had an issue with the Duke. Admittedly it was on the large side, the triggers were a little tight and the diamond formation of the buttons was awful for finding the right button quickly. That said I still had a lot of fun with it and actually think it was quite innovative for the time. It had analogue triggers which meant it was brilliant for racing games and offset analogue sticks which meant it was great for FPS and 3rd person games. Yes it was flawed in many ways but also great in others. Certainly one of the more memorable controllers from my youth.
Honestly, aside from needing 1 more face button, the Jaguar controller is great. I have huge hands and like the OG Duke so that's probably a huge factor but honestly, if you've held that controller, you wouldn't put it among the worst.
Now that I’m older with much larger hands I prefer the duke
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****WARNING TO HEADPHONE USERS*** dont watch this with headphones, some of the audio spikes will legitimately hurt your ears.
WHATS THAT SONNY? I CANT HEAR YOU
One problem with your picture in Number 9. The OG PlayStation didn't originally come with a Dual Shock. It was the OG PS Controller, then the Dual Analogue adding the analogue sticks then the Dual Shock adding the rumble.
Figured there would be a Madcatz zing in here, but never happened.
Fantastic sound editing chaps
Did you upload and delete this a couple times already?
Struggled to hear this one
I feel the N64 controller itself also deserves to be on this list tbh 😂
8:10
when you take the piss out of the gaming industries first accessibility controller..............
I noticed that too. Trackball controllers are useful for people who have something wrong with their hands, like arthritis. For little children, too, a large trackball that can be used with both hands is easier to use than a mouse. It is true that the one here looks like a toy, but there is nothing wrong with the concept.
@@nellitheretrogamer8666 that was accessibility controller number one. Coloured so kids with learning difficulties could distinguish different buttons. That new dude I'm guessing wrote the script. Maybe not let him if he's gna smack talk accessibility controllers. Like those are for people to enjoy games who usually can't.
At the time I didnt even notice the original six axis was missing dualshock; always played with it turned off whenever possible and wasnt looking for it.
Noooo, not the duke! That's one of my favourite controllers!
Part of me would interested to see if an updated Power Glove might be better now. It probably wouldn't be, but would be an interesting experience.
Could they make it actually functional and responsive and all around better? Probably!
Will it still be a clunky, dorky peripheral that you'll laugh at before you put on? Most definitely.
Some of the VR controllers have some hand sensing tech, the original Oculus Rift controllers can sense when you've lifted some of your fingers off the controller triggers/buttons. I believe the Valve Index Knuckle controllers went even further with sensing what your hands are doing with the controller.
Oh come on the Kinect wasn't THAT bad, there were WAY worse controllers then that like LJN's Roll n Rocker for the NES.
Looks to be 1st party controllers on this list
The kinect should be a peripheral. Not a controller really. I mean I know...it was used to control but...this list should be actual controllers u held in ur hand
@@dunkelstevenson4413 no the Boomerang 64, U-Force and Power Glove are all third-party controllers.
@@packers12to80 agreed
The kinect wasTHAT bad.....However it really wasn't a controller. But then again the Sixaxis wouldn't belong on a list either considering its just the dualshock minus the motors.
Uh oh, someone forgot to turn up Ashton's audio track. I can barely hear her.
I can barely hear Ashton so I've had to turn my TV way up only for random clips in the video to be blaringly loud by comparison. It's been a trend with her videos but it seems like the balance is off more so this time than in the past.
WHAT IS A PS CONTROLLER DOING IN THE THUMBNAIL
That's the PS3 controller, not the PS2.
That's actually the PS3 controller. More than likely the sixaxis one.
@@Oyebadumn i wanted to say PS but it autocorrected to PS2
The Duke, honestly is amazing
In my opinion it deserves to be in the top 10 BEST controllers
I'm surprized joy-cons didn't make the list
Nintendo had nothing to do with the power glove for being a video game channel so sure do know very little about games
Maybe the CD-i joystick was meant to be held with the thumb and index finger?
Haven't watched the video yet, but if the N64 claw isn't number 1, there is something seriously wrong.
Am I wrong, or is the screenshot near the end of the Boomerang from the Scott the Woz ep about third party controllers
A decent list, but the video is marred by poor sound-mixing (the background music is too loud or the dialogue is too quiet).
I thought the same thing
I actually own a u force and the writing on the box basically says its crap and makes games harder to play. It's fun to get people to try and use it
I had a Booster Boy for the Game Boy it was a beast
The CDi touch controller is obviously a Gravis GamePad spray painted dark gray with philips branding on it.
I think the handheld controller I didn't like the most as a kid was the one for the Fairchild Channel F. I still have mine and the whole 13 cartridges that were made for it. At least I think that's all there were.
I see this uploaded a free weeks ago. I thought I'd imagined it
Another slapper. Thank you
Those clips from CGR make me nostalgic when Mark really cared about gaming and was on a quest of reviewing everything on earth
The audio on this is horrible.
The Duke controller being bad is small hand propaganda, having to use my hands like claws to grasp your child sized pieces of plastic is insulting and painful
There was a point where I blamed my disdain for the Duke on my pre-teen hands too. However I’ve since tried again with fully adult sized hands, and it’s even worse than I remembered.
if we're including 3rd party controllers, this list is already broken. I can think of like 30 third party controllers worse than the Duke. honestly, I like triple jump, but a lot of their top _____ lists annoy me bc they don't even try what their ranking
To be fair, a lot of ‘worst video game controllers’ videos, from any channel or content creators, tend to have wildly inconsistent criterion.
My theory behind this (and I’m not trying to throw said videos under the bus): they merely parrot what controllers have notorious backlash within pop culture and/or social media rather than how objectively bad they are. How many active gamers have actually used any variation of CDi controllers? I’d wager very little (and I won’t pretend to be one of them either).
the xbox duke control was very good I felt comfortable and I have medium hands you know what if it is bad control the dualshock 3 felt too light as if it were a toy and when I picked it up I felt that if I squeezed it a little it would go away break in half :) pd 6:14 playstation vr 2 is the kinect from playstation :)
The 6axis one seems Very nitpicky.
It's crazy how weird light controllers feel these days.
Classic NES and SNES gamepads feel like toys. Some of that is just my age and growing up with them.
They were mostly wired back then, so they didn't have the heft of batteries, or the rumble features controllers have now. It may also be the case of you actually being a kid back then and your hands now are much larger by comparison.
I disagree with the SixAxis. Yeah, it sucks that it didn't have rumble, but it still didn't deviate that far from the original formula. It's the controller we've loved since PSX, but wireless! Also, the N64 controller shouldn't be that high.
Do one on the best 10 controllers. I’m sure that will be controversial.
The only improvement of the Boomerang 64 was the analog stick. It was smoother and it didnt rip off your skin like the original while playing Mario party (at least not as fast) lmao
My mate had a CDI thingy when it was first released. We would have pitied him. But his wife was a bank manager and so he was loaded. So we found great amusement in pointing out to him how awful it was. Also fwiw, he also had an actual giant remote control satellite dish in his back garden back in the early 1980's. Purely to receive porn channels from Europe. God bless that man!
What about the Spaceorb 360, a controller that you had a sphere to control all of your movements
I'd used the duke controller back in 2004 a few times when i had gone to this place which had OG xbox'es you could play for up to 2-3 hours at a time i think (me being just 10-11 at the time), the duke controller didn't bother me back then. And there are the newer versions done by hyperkin (have the standard black, along with the green & red ones) for the xbox one & windows 10 pc's, they work well for me whenever i use them. And fair enough, there are those who didn't like them much (plenty of people didn't), there are those who don't mind them. As the saying goes, each to their own.
The AVGN review of the u force it seems rather compatent. Though we still dont know how the hell the buttons on the flight stick work.
I really loved the Duke and would actually like to find one in good condition, just to have!
The only thing I hate about the old ps2 controllers is the way the r2 and l2 buttons would get stuck and break
I will not accept this duke slander, that right there was one of my first controllers when I had tiny hands
I still have the Boomerang 64! It was great (or at least not as painful) for Chameleon Twist and Bomberman 64.
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the duke controller is really good though, same with the ps3 controller
You guys might need to redo this audio! It’s very quiet!
The kinect wasn't the fault of the controller itself but the games that used it
Had that POS Activator. Smh I still want my time back.
The Duke was a great controller
Whoever designed these controllers deserve to be slapped in the face
May i ask what music is playing in this video
I absolutely loved the duke........but I can palm a basketball. It felt absolutely perfect in my palm. It weirdly felt good lol
I loved the power glove for NES, It worked for me as a 5 year old in 1990
Dreamcast controller better be on here
Nothing was wrong with the duke