Customer Ratings & Reviews

Love the blue transparency color. Works great. No issues

Matches my meta quest 3 and works well with streaming games

I got this controller as a gift for my brother and he could not stop talking about how much he loves the color, and the feel of the controller. Great gift for anyone in need of a new controller and comes in various colors.

Girlfriend's favorite color....good controller....works great

Comfort,Good color, and excellent quality is good.

A beautiful control, with rubber grips. Makes it comfortable to hold and use. I would definitely say this is one of the best limited edition controllers.

A good all-rounder controller with high-quality buttons, a great D-pad, and a long battery life. i also like the controller's design, feel, and grip, delivery was fast next day, received in good order and condition! thanks Best Buy !

Perfect working Great gripping Viberation is awesome

[Employee of bestbuy] Amazing color great grip! Very durable and the color is amazing

Great! I love the colors! And it works really well.

We buy at least one replacement Xbox controller each year for our kids. The controllers are comfy, work great for games, and are easy to use. But after about a year of daily play, the joysticks start acting up or buttons get sticky, and we have to replace them… gets expensive, but it’s best option we’ve found, so we keep buying them… Love that the color selections have increased and now include bright pinks, greens, blues, purples, etc.

Absolutely love the color and feel of this controller. Bought it for my wife but we both love it so much we take turns using it!

Nice looking, cool color, good quality. Easy to use and set up. Also, good for the price

[Employee of bestbuy] Very nice qualify with the extra grips, design is incredibly cool as well

The Series X controller lineup is far better than its Xbox One counterpart. While the controller is a little smaller, this change is for the better and truly doesn’t feel much different yet it does provide a more ergonomically sound fit in your hands. The stippling on the triggers and rear of the controller really improves grip. Hopefully this doesn’t wear too much with use but I’ll be keeping a close eye on it. So far, I’ve had no instances of ‘stick drift’ like I did with the Xbox One series of controllers. Overall, this was exactly the upgrade I wanted. Highly recommended!

Grip is awesome, and so is the color scheme! The little designs really make it pop

This is a great looking and feeling controller. Being a huge Doom fan, I love destroying every demon around me with this doomslayer!!

Gotten this for the MacBook to play games. Works great with no issues. Connects wirelessly and wired.

It's an Xbox controller it works and does the job I need it too do

This controller is really just a slightly revised Xbox One controller, which is both good and bad. The short version is that if you liked that controller, you will almost certainly like this one; if you didn't, you probably won't like this one. With that out of the way, let's start with the good. Ergonomically, this continues to be one of the best controllers out there, at least for games utilizing the left thumbstick for movement. There have apparently been some minor tweaks since the last generation, but it feels so similar in hand that I can't really tell you what they are. It does have a grippier texture and grip on the triggers now, though, both of which are nice. In terms of functionality, the d-pad has changed rather dramatically and the bumpers feel just a bit stiffer. Both of those changes will be subjective, but I can say that I don't mind the extra stiffness in the bumpers and I like the d-pad a lot more than I thought I was going to. However, the previous d-pad wasn't nearly so loud and clicky and I definitely preferred it that way. Also, the right bumper on my unit sounds different than the left. A mild annoyance, but still odd. And that's really it for changes (aside from having USB-C now). I will say that my particular unit seems to have better thumbsticks (in terms of drift) than any other Xbox controller I've owned, so I either got lucky or they have been paying more attention to that. Everything else feels and performs pretty much the same. On to the bad. The biggest problem is that, despite the hundreds of complaints about the Elite Series 2 in particular, Microsoft hasn't actually tried to fix the A button. They still use the same flawed contact design, so if you had issues with the button registering before, just know that nothing has really changed here. Mine isn't too bad, though, so I guess I got lucky. The A button on mine also sticks a bit, but I know that will go away with time/use. A small gripe I have is that when you unplug the controller, it turns itself back on. That also happened with the XB1 controllers, but this time that will also turn on your Xbox if it isn't already on. So imagine you had previously synced the controller with your Xbox but are now playing a game on your PC; when you unplug the controller, your Xbox turns on. That didn't happen with the XB1 controllers, so I'm not sure what changed or why, but it's pretty annoying. Fortunately, if you take the batteries out when using it wired, you don't have to worry about that. Another gripe is that the ring around the thumbsticks is quite rough, just as it was with the previous generation. Contrast this with the Switch Pro controller or DualShock 4, which are both quite smooth, or the DualSense which now has anti-friction rings as standard. Yes, you can sand it smooth if you take it apart (and void your warranty) or it might just smooth out over time, but it's still frustrating that they can't be bothered to spend two cents more on parts to put an anti-friction ring there. And finally, and I know a lot of people will disagree with me, I really wish they had added some sort of motion controls. This is now the third console generation in a row where Xbox is the only one without motion controls and it's starting to hold games back. I find them to be really good for shooters, but a lot of developers don't seem to want to bother implementing gyro aiming if it's going to give PlayStation an unfair advantage over Xbox when playing online. Everyone else has committed to them, so they're not going away. I think it's time to accept it. In summary, it's mostly more of the same but with some welcome (if minor) improvements to ergonomics. They could've done more to make it actually function better, but if you were happy with the previous generation, you'll like this one, too.