Normally you’d have to wire the controller up to a PC and then make all your modifications there, but the mobile app is good enough that you can make modifications on the fly, while the controller is connected to, say, your Switch. Something else that’s cool, but not Switch related, is the ability to update the controller through the 8BitDo mobile app. Having the back button actually makes it infinitely easier to dodge deliveries that should be left alone. Something I always enjoyed in Destiny, as an example, was having back buttons bound to run so I didn’t have to push the left stick in all the time. You could map the back buttons to X/A/Y/B, if you wanted to move one of those buttons to something more comfortable.Īnother great example, weirdly, is Cricket 19. The game traditionally has you pushing in the left stick or pressing A if you want to leave a delivery, but that can be a hassle if you’re also using the left/right sticks for your player’s movement. You’ll have to dig through the software to decide what you want to use the controls for, and it might make sense to have multiple profiles for different genres of games. You can use them on the Switch too, although they’re not bound to anything by default. I can’t tell you how much a lifesaver this is when bound correctly. What they’ve added, though, is two buttons at the rear of the controller. That’s gone on the Pro 2 - all you have to do now is flip a switch at the back of the controller. The SN Pro 30+ had you pressing Start plus a face button to boot the controller up, with the face button changing depending on what platform you wanted to use the Pro 30+ with. The colours and styling is still pretty similar to that retro Famicom/SNES look, depending on the colour you get, and 8BitDo hasn’t changed the positioning of the main buttons.īut there are some much needed quality of life changes. The bumpers aren’t quite as stiff as the original controllers, and the face buttons no longer have that slightly concave design. The bumpers, triggers and face buttons have all gotten an update on the Pro 2, as well. So you can set a reduced amount of rumble or customised mappings for Profile 1 when connected to the Switch, but Profile 1 can have different settings when connected to your phone or PC. The new controller has the ability to store three profiles, but what’s neat is you can adjust those per platform as well. The 8BitDo Ultimate Software has plenty of versatility.ĨBitDo’s Ultimate Software suite has gotten a few upgrades since the Pro 30+ originally launched, but there’s a massive jump in versatility with the Pro 2. And that’s where the 8BitDo Pro 2 comes in. And that’s how I ended up searching for quality third-party controllers, especially ones that were compatible with more platforms like mobiles and PC. (A friend of mine loves pulling out the DualShock 4 as a great example of this, where trying to move right/turn the camera left results in his fingers colliding.)īut the absolute killer with the Pro Controller is that it drifts too. There’s the Xbox-style stick placement as well - some people prefer not to have both sticks towards the middle of the controller, particularly if you’ve got large hands and you end up in a situation where you have to turn both sticks towards each other. But Nintendo’s OG pad had some advantages: the bumpers were a lot nicer to activate you could wake the console up from sleep, something the SN Pro 30+ (and Pro 2) couldn’t do and the semi-translucent look of the Pro Controller is still one of the best things going around. The Pro 30+ was also available for a good price most of the time - usually around $20 less than the proper Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. The customisation was nice, the buttons and layout were perfect and, best of all, no controller drift. I wouldn’t have called the SN Pro 30+ the best Nintendo Switch controller, if only because there were a couple of things that held it back from being truly great. So when the company announced the SN Pro 2, an update to the already very good and very affordable SN Pro 30+, I was naturally going to jump right on board. 8BitDo has always made the best non-Nintendo controllers you could get, for the Switch or any other platform.
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