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If you’re a PC gamer, you’re probably right at home with a mouse and keyboard, only picking up a controller every now and then — and you probably don’t care what that controller is. Us console gamers, though, spend hundreds and thousands of hours with a controller in hand, so it’s very important that that controller is fit for purpose.  Not every controller is built equally, though. Some are much better than others, and while none of the first-party controllers are particularly bad, every console at least has some options that are better than others. With so many hours put into console gaming, we’ve got a pretty good handle on which controllers are excellent and which… aren’t so much. That’s why we’ve ranked every single first-party console controller from worst to best.  See more: All FromSoftware Souls games ranked from easy to impossible See more: Every mainline Final Fantasy game, ranked from best to worst The Xbox Elite controller has plenty of options and some neat features, but none of them make up fo

This article first appeared on Video Games on SI and was syndicated with permission.

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