8Bitdo Lite Bluetooth Gamepad for Switch Lite, Switch & Windows (Yellow Edition)

There are few good controllers with clicky D-Pads, and there are even fewer with GOOD clicky D-Pads. This is the diamond in the rough. Do not make the mistake of getting any other impression. If you like clicky D-Pads, here's your controller. If you don't, then that's not the fault of the controller. Straight up, if you want a good way to play NES/SNES classics, or any game that requires precise digital controls on Switch or PC, this is it. Just buy it. But if you want a few more details, here you go... The controller fits comfortably in my medium to large sized hands. It should feel fine whatever your hand size, I think. The shoulder buttons line up well with my fingers, with the tips of them landing on the L2 and R2 buttons and the lower part resting on the primary L and R buttons. The D-Pad and buttons all rest is comfortable places, and the (+) and (-) buttons are in good spots that you won't hit by accident. This also goes for the home and record buttons (which visually appear as heart and star buttons, respectively). While you can press down all directions at once, it's really hard unless you actually try, which you're NEVER going to do by accident. Using it normally, the game will just go in the direction you push without any shenanigans. No, "I swear I didn't push up!" Just good functionality. The downside is, there's a reason you can press all four directions at once at all. When you do that, the game counts that as an L3 or R3 press. The problem is that it's not easy to push all the directions down at once, which is good for all cases except when you actually want to use L3 or R3. But lets face it; you aren't getting this controller to play any games that make frequent, mandatory use of the L3 or R3 buttons. Any game that requires you to do that is a game this controller wasn't meant to be used for, anyway. But if you NEED to pres L3 or R3 occasionally, the functionality is there. This controller is an excellent accessory to your joy-cons and/or pro controller. It will never replace either of those things for what those are good for, but for other things this will do it. Make no mistake; if there's a game where you NEED the analog functionality of a right and left analog stick, this won't do the job. But that's not what it's for. The D-Pad on the pro controller sucks, and the directional buttons on the joycons aren't great for some types of games, like shooters or fighting games. This gives you the option to use both a great D-Pad as well as directional buttons at the same time. And some games actually benefit from having digital controls for the Right Stick as well. EDIT: Previously, the Left D-Pad could only fuction as the Left Analog Stick, but a recent firmware update now allows you to switch the functions of the Left D-Pad and the directional buttons around. Now, you can make the DPad work as the directional buttons instead of the Left Analog stick! So for games games like Tetris 99, where you can't use the Left Analog stick to move the pieces, you can simply press and hold (-) and the left directional button (<) for a few seconds, and it will map the Left Stick to the directional buttons instead! Now you can move pieces with the D-Pad and change targets with the directional buttons! And you can easily change it back by pressing the same button combination again! This gets rid of the only real downside this controller had, so hats off to 8bitdo. If your controller did't come with the firmware update preinstalled, you can easily download the update for 8bitdo's support page. Just Google "8bitdo support" and you'll find the page, which will have all the latest firmware updates for their controllers ready to install quickly and painlessly. Also, on top of all the other cool features it has, it also has turbo functionality. While in PC mode, instead of using the star button to take screenshots, you can hold a button and press star to activate turbo for that button. It's a nice way of giving functionality to a button that would otherwise be useless on PC. All in all, this is a very nice controller. Even far beyond the appeal of the Switch, this controller offers great functionality for any PC or phone, and should serve you for years. I'm definitely hanging onto this this for the foreseeable future as my controller of choice for any game that doesn't require an analog stock to play properly.

8BitDo has a reputation for having great Dpads, but this ain't it. I was very excited for this controller because I thought they would include their wonderful Dpads of legend, but the switches in their Dpads and buttons here are akin to the switches for joycon buttons. It's not good. It has extremely little travel and the shoulder buttons are kinda hard to press without almost pushing the controller out of your fingers. The Dpads also do not have a pivot; they just press in. However, it is not expensive. At only $25, it's still a pretty interesting controller that I will definitely keep and play with when I feel like using a wacky controller. However, I'll most often be reaching for my 8BitDo SN30 Pro Plus. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 7 MONTHS LATER AMENDMENT: I currently own six of 8BitDo's controllers and I always reach for either the SN30 Pro Plus or this 8BitDo Lite. My initial impressions weren't the best as you can see, however, after using this controller for over half a year, my opinion on it has changed drastically. What I said about the Dpads is true, however, the feeling of the buttons is something you can get used to and improves with use as you wear-in the membranes to be less stiff. I also failed to mention that pressing in the entire Dpad will trigger the L3 and R3 buttons, respectively. In recent months I've grown a healthy dislike of analog sticks as they are just too prone to both technical failure (Particularly Joycons and recently even my beloved 8BitDo SN30 Pro Plus has even started glitching slightly, giving errant directions when tilted a certain way) and leave too much room for human error (not always being able to tilt in the precise direction I would be going for). This controller provides something that no other controller does: a way to play all your games that require an analog stick (on Switch, PC, and Android) with Dpads instead. Directions are either on or off and I love that. This controller offers something particularly special, does it really well, and is not expensive at all, so I have updated my review to be 5 stars. I really look forward to seeing what 8BitDo comes out with in the future.

Small and portable controller that save space and wonderful to act as what I expected, highly recommended for everyone

Although it's a good game as for 2D games there are times I get confused using it but it's mostly a really good controller for any type of 2D game or fighting games.

Great little controller. Looks simple, but it's well manufactured and lag is minimal (for a bluetooth controller). Whilst the lack of joysticks limits how many games it can be useful for, anything that relies on digital, binary actions really benefit from it - and the retaining of Nintendo's joycon-style separated d-pad is much appreciated.

Brilliant Retro Game Pad, perfect for Raspberry PI - Retro PI

8bitdo è sinonimo di qualità. Questo pad in particolare è piccolo e maneggevole, oltre ad essere ottimo per quei platform che richiedono lo stick analogico pur avendo solo 8 direzioni