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!
VO: Ashton Matthews (@ScrambledAshton)
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.
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
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??
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
The voiceover here is REALLY quiet
Whoever did the audio mixing for this video needs to go back to... audio mixing school.
Never had an issue with the sixaxis. Actually preferred the lighter feel due to the lack of a rumble pack. Better battery life too.
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.
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 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.
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
I was endowed with massive hands. The duke was perfect for me lol
5:24, been waiting for this day to come, kinda glad you guys were the first to use my content, made my day!
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
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.
Did you upload and delete this a couple times already?
13:40 the perfect controller for gex night
I prefer the Duke, but I have massive hands. Lol
The audio on this is horrible.
Nintendo had nothing to do with the power glove for being a video game channel so sure do know very little about games
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wait, I don't remember founding a wallet company or using said company to sponsor a Triple Jump video... But my memory is a little spacy, so who am I to question such sponsorships...?
I feel the N64 controller itself also deserves to be on this list tbh 😂
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 like the Scott the Woz screen grab of the boomerang 64 with the marshmallow on the joystick.
I had a UForce, and even for slow paced games like Ultima Quest of the Avatar the sensors were not up to the task.
After playing my OG XBox for the first time in ages, I must say the 'Duke' is actually pretty damn good to use (IMO)
WHATS THAT SONNY? I CANT HEAR YOU
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
Struggled to hear this one
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!
Noooo, not the duke! That's one of my favourite controllers!
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).
Now that I’m older with much larger hands I prefer the duke
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Oh wait, that arrangement was terrible.
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.
Figured there would be a Madcatz zing in here, but never happened.
Yo. Probably gonna' go ahead and order me a Brandon Fraser Cardboard Cut-out now...
Thanks for the sweet idea!! I hade no clue these existed 😍
Another slapper. Thank you
I can’t believe that they didn’t even mention the GameCube Resident Evil Chainsaw controller or the Wu-Tang W Controller! 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Nothing was wrong with the duke
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.
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.
You don't hold The Duke, the Duke holds you.
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.
I think that early PS3 controllers lacked the rumble feature, but later on this was included.
Am I wrong, or is the screenshot near the end of the Boomerang from the Scott the Woz ep about third party controllers
The Duke was a great controller
I had a Booster Boy for the Game Boy it was a beast
the world needs more Brendan Fraser appreciation!
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.
The 1 thing the Duke does better than any controller since; is it's rumble.
I liked the duke
Aside from the awful D-pad, the Duke was great actually. But yeah the current Xbox controller is the best.
The current controller is great I just have giant hands and want something a bit more comfortable to hold
@@JohnUnsub yeah I'm with you. My hands aren't giant but they're much bigger than contemporary controllers mesh with. Especially joy cons
@@lpnp9477 I regret buying a switch, even with the joycon holder it hurts my hands after like 10 minutes
the duke controller is really good though, same with the ps3 controller
Fantastic sound editing chaps
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Audio mix broken?
Loved the Duke.
Great list but I'd like to see Ashton stop doing the ' Wildcard' entry as it reminds me of a Peter list too much. Considering how funny she is on the longer form videos (check out the prove it where they learn to wrestle for an example) I'd like to see her putting her own stamp on these lists.
The CDi touch controller is obviously a Gravis GamePad spray painted dark gray with philips branding on it.
I'm not accepting that anything but the N64 controller is the most awful monstrosity ever foisted on the gaming world. I know loads of people say it's good. But they are ALL WRONG!
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.
May i ask what music is playing in this video
Uh oh, someone forgot to turn up Ashton's audio track. I can barely hear her.
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.
I'm just glad you guys are getting some of those sponsorship ducats!
You missed some real stinkers, Atari 5200 controllers are notoriously bad and break when you even think about them. Intellivision has terrible controllers. Heck, let’s throw the Amico controller on here now because if that thing ever comes out you just know it’s gonna suck
Haven't watched the video yet, but if the N64 claw isn't number 1, there is something seriously wrong.
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 :)
I'm surprized joy-cons didn't make the list
Hey, nice video but could you speak up a bit? We can’t hear you over the background music.
You guys might need to redo this audio! It’s very quiet!
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.
Be quiet, I still have a sixaxis to this day. Works as well as it ever did. Every Xbox controller I've bought through the generations has suffered from stick drift.
Voice over volume is really low
I really loved the Duke and would actually like to find one in good condition, just to have!
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.
****WARNING TO HEADPHONE USERS*** dont watch this with headphones, some of the audio spikes will legitimately hurt your ears.
The 6axis one seems Very nitpicky.
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
Duke was amazing, legit is what I use on my Xbox every time I play it official sad face here. But it's cool still going to play with my..... Duke? And Kinect was extremely successful it's best year was 2010 sold amazing, sixaxxis I would disagree I don't play with vibrate on. I've never been a fan of vibrating plastic.
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Do one on the best 10 controllers. I’m sure that will be controversial.
I loved the Duke Xbox controller actually 😆
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.
What about the Spaceorb 360, a controller that you had a sphere to control all of your movements
I know the OG N64 controller wasn't popular but it's my favourite ever controller it feels great and I love the placement of the joystick.
The original Xbox controller is the reason I never bought one and the reason I have never purchased any Xbox to date. Also redo this video because you completely screwed up the audio. How a video gets uploaded in this state is beyond me.
The Duke is similar to the Dreamcast controller. The Xbox even was almost backwards-compatible with Dreamcast games (even though they were the same generation [even though Sega was dead by then])
Sixasis doesn't deserve this list. It's a good controller overall and the PS3 controller is still one of my favorite designs.
Its almost impossible to hear her over the music. I dunno who did the audio balancing, but fire them.