What's Nintendo's best controller to date, and why?

[TheRealSamusAran]

curl-6 said:

JackHandy said:

I swear, if you asked this question in ten years, the current winner would get one vote and whatever was the newest controller at that time would get like fifty haha.

Recency bias is a thing, but on the other hand so is nostalgia; it tends to even out in the end.

But most importantly, technology advances. It's like asking which console is better, the NES or the Switch 2, but without even taking game libraries into account, because controllers don't have game libraries.

So my answer to what is the best to date is the Switch 2 Pro. But I want to give the recognition that the SNES controller deserves for being the most important and impactful video game controller in history, for creating the blueprint that Sony and everybody else copied, becoming the standard controller model.

And I want to shout-out the Wii Remote and Wii U Gamepad too for being revolutionary (Wii) and for bringing a unique experience (Wii U) to TV gaming. Now excuse me as I jump to my Splatoon teammate across the map by simply tapping their icon on the Gamepad screen.

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