What is the best gaming controller of all time?

The right controller can make or break a gaming generation — but which one felt best in your hands? Vote for the greatest gaming controller ever made.

Xbox 360 Controller

Microsoft's 2005 gamepad set the template for the modern controller with its ergonomic grips, clickable thumbsticks, and bumper-trigger layout still copied today.

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PlayStation DualShock 4

Sony's 2013 iteration refined the DualShock formula with a touchpad, Share button, and improved analog sticks that became beloved across a generation of players.

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PlayStation DualSense

Sony's 2020 DualSense transformed tactile feedback with adaptive triggers and haptic rumble, making controller immersion a genuinely new frontier.

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SNES Controller

Nintendo's 1990 flat controller introduced the iconic four-face-button diamond layout that virtually every gamepad since has borrowed.

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GameCube Controller

Nintendo's 2001 ergonomic oddity — with its large A-button and distinctive asymmetric design — remains the definitive controller for Super Smash Bros. fans decades later.

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Nintendo Switch Pro Controller

Nintendo's premium 2017 gamepad combined the best of Switch portability with the comfort and feel of a traditional home-console controller.

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NES Controller

The humble 1983 rectangular d-pad and two-button layout that introduced millions to home gaming and defined the concept of what a controller is.

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PlayStation DualShock 2

Sony's pressure-sensitive 2000 controller that shipped with every PS2 worldwide and introduced analogue input to the mass market.

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Xbox Series X Controller

Microsoft's 2020 refinement of the 360 design added a Share button, textured grips, and a USB-C port while keeping the winning formula unchanged.

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Sega Dreamcast Controller

Sega's 1998 VMU-slotting gamepad was innovative and ergonomic, helping define the 3D-era controller before the console met its untimely end.

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Nintendo 64 Controller

Nintendo's 1996 three-pronged controller introduced the analogue stick to mainstream home gaming and shaped how 3D games were played for years.

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Xbox One Controller

Microsoft's 2013 gamepad smoothed the 360's rough edges with rubberized grips, refined bumpers, and a premium build quality that set a new standard.

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Steam Controller

Valve's 2015 experiment replaced right-stick with dual trackpads to make mouse-style PC gaming possible from the couch — recently relaunched to renewed interest.

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PlayStation DualShock

Sony's 1997 original DualShock added dual analogue sticks and rumble to PlayStation, setting the foundational template for the next twenty years of controllers.

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Joy-Cons

Nintendo's 2017 modular controllers that can serve as a single pad, two tiny remotes, or motion controllers, embodying the Switch's versatile hybrid philosophy.

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