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

Nintendo precocious announced a batch of Black Friday deals, each of which tally done November 30th. This includes a steep discount connected the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, which drops it to an all-time debased of $49.99 ($20 off) astatine Best Buy and Target. This is 1 of the much notable Black Friday discounts from Nintendo this twelvemonth — that is, speech from the existent promo connected The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Nintendo’s latest Switch OLED bundle — namely because the Pro Controller seldom goes connected sale, moreover 7 years aft its release.

Although location are galore awesome third-party gamepads available, the Switch Pro Controller remains the champion all-around controller for Nintendo’s aging console. It’s overmuch much comfortable to usage a full-size controller than a brace of Joy-Cons for extended hours, and its larger sticks are acold much accurate. It besides features a due D-pad alternatively of 4 individual buttons and parity pinch Nintendo’s Joy-Con controllers, meaning you get gyro controls, HD rumble, and Amiibo support.

Other controllers, for illustration Gulikit’s King Kong series, person immoderate of these features and one-up the Pro Controller pinch drift-free Hall effect sticks and immoderate customizability. However, they don’t supply quite the aforesaid foolproof, plug-and-play acquisition arsenic Nintendo’s gamepad, which you tin manus to a kid and cognize everything will work.

While Nintendo precocious came retired to denote that its adjacent console will beryllium backward-compatible pinch Switch games, it hasn’t said what that intends for accessories for illustration the Pro Controller. There’s a chance that it will not beryllium 100 percent compatible pinch the successor to the Switch, but since it uses an unfastened protocol for illustration Bluetooth, there’s really nary logic it shouldn’t. That is, unless Nintendo drastically changes thing pinch its wireless controller setup aliases really wants america to acquisition caller controllers. (Fingers crossed it doesn’t travel to that.)