I love my Nintendo Switch console, but I’ve never been a fan of the traditional Nintendo Joy-Cons. Sure, they mostly function fine, are lightweight, and I think they look cool. But in terms of practicality, comfort, and accuracy – I much prefer using some of the best Joy-Con alternative controllers for gaming on my Switch.

This is mainly down to comfort, and performance, plus an issue known as stick drift, which plenty of gaming controllers suffer from but Joy-Cons in particular are notorious for developing. My Joy-Cons are collecting dust in my game cabinet right now, and I don’t use them for gaming anymore. Instead, I have several third-party Switch controllers from brands like NYXI, EasySMX, GameSir, and BigBig Won which resolve a lot of the issues I have with traditional Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons.