Nintendo’s terrific Switch Pro Controller is $20 off on Black Friday

Although there are many third-party gamepads available, the Switch Pro Controller remains the best controller for Nintendo’s aging console. It’s more comfortable to use a full-sized controller than a pair of Joy-Cons for extended hours, and its larger sticks are more precise. It also has a proper D-pad instead of four individual buttons and calibration with Nintendo’s Joy-Con controllers, meaning you get gyro controls, HD rumble, and Amiibo support.

Some controllers, like Gulikit’s King Kong series, have some of these features and another Pro controller with drift-free Hall effect sticks and some customization. However, they don’t indeed it’s the same no-nonsense, plug-and-play experience as a Nintendo gamepad, which you can hand to a child and know everything will work.

While Nintendo recently came out to announce that its next console will be backwards-compatible with Switch games, it hasn’t said what that means for accessories like the Pro Controller. There’s a chance it won’t be 100 percent compatible with the Switch’s successor, but since it uses an open protocol like Bluetooth, there’s no reason it shouldn’t. That is, unless Nintendo drastically changes something with their wireless controller setup or really wants us to buy new controllers. (Crossing fingers doesn’t come to that.)