****** - Verified Buyer
4.5
I purchased two of these on accident. I am glad I did, because each one had a problem and being able to compare them side-by-side allowed me to not overreact to it.The first controller had great feeling buttons, but had an issue with the connecting cable. Inside the main cable of the controller are a group of wires, and that housing cable (the one you typically see, the big black one) was pulled out of the controller showing the individual wires and leaving them exposed and vulnerable to damage.The second controller had really lackluster button feel, but the cord cover was correctly in place. I decided to do a little controller surgery and see what I could find. I opened the one with the cord issue first and saw the layout, and then opened the other one to see how it compared. I could see immediately how the cable was routed and how it should have been held in place inside the controller, but had slipped out of place. This took a few seconds to fix, and then I looked at the buttons on each one.Most people who crack open controllers are used to larger one-piece rubber membranes which cover the button and provide the continuity through the tiny carbon pad to make the connection "go live". That is what makes the action on screen. These controllers instead have separate tiny silicone (I suppose) membranes for each button. I could see how they sat on the one with great button press, and how on the one with mushy buttons they were not sitting correctly. I popped the membrane out, turned it to the right orientation, and reassembled. Perfect.overall quality control might be a bit lax here, or I could have just received two with issues randomly. Even if I had to cannibalize two controllers to make one that was perfect, it would have been half the price of the official Nintendo dogbone controller and that would have been acceptable to me.
