HORI Nintendo Switch HORIPAD Plus+ Wired Controller for first person shooters, battle royales and more - Officially Licensed by Nintendo

This controller is one of the best controllers that I’ve ever used since you can have gyro aim on a controller on a game that does not have motion aim is very great plus you can assign the gyro to be on a button on the controller but one downside is you can’t make very quick moves when you move the controller and also as you move the controller it actually detects how far you tilt the controller instead but the quick aim feature is got to be the most useful then having gyro active all the time

controller works great and feels great in my hands. this controller helped me get rid of joycon drift. i have the regular switch joycons and a wireless gamecube controller and they both of joycon drift in the right stick. i only play my switch docked so this controller is great because it's not a wireless connection which im worried might be causing my joycon drift.

Sorry this review is going to be pretty long, I have been desperately trying to find the perfect controller for me but everything just has to come up short in some way; and this one is sadly no exception. In short: This controller is probably only worth it if you want that special FPS feature (which is not that useful considering how many switch games natively support gyro aiming), or need a switch controller with turbo and back buttons and don't need the dpad or the missing features (it's not really a "cheaper pro controller alternative" either, you can easily get a real Pro Controller for as much or less than this). Lack of wireless, rumble, and other bonuses isn't the biggest deal to me but it makes the price very questionable when the rest of the controller isn't perfect.D-PadThe dpad is even worse than the Switch Pro's (an already extremely low bar), which was one of my biggest reasons for trying something different from the switch pro in the first place. It's super mushy with a really low travel distance so it's hard to tell what you're pressing, and little tactile difference between sliding from one direction to the next, and when holding a direction for more than a few seconds it becomes hard to tell you're even holding it down at all and it feels like it requires more and more force to hold it down for some reason (switch pro has this issue too). Unfortunately a lot of controllers have this problem which has been one of my biggest struggles in finding a good controller; I was really hoping this controller would be different but it's the worst of the bunch so far. I've been burnt by so many dpads I really have no idea what to expect from anything anymore without being able to feel the controller myself ;-;Face buttonsThe face buttons are a little farther apart than the Switch Pro, not a huge deal but combined with the cliff on the southern edge of the B button for the handle, the edge presses into my thumb which is uncomfortable. The buttons themselves have a bit more resistance than the pro, but while the pro's are more comfy, this is good because the pro's can occasionally be in a limbo state where the button is between pressed and unpressed and the actual input is unpredictable.Shoulder buttonsThe triggers are a little less comfortable than the Switch Pro (which unlike the dpad is an extremely high bar, the Switch Pro's triggers are perfection) because for some reason the body comes up to meet them so my skin almost gets pinched when i press them. The press is also not as smooth in the corner of the triggers, which is where your fingers are going to be pressing them unless your grip is like super loose for some reason. The bumpers are also slightly less comfortable because of being angled at the edges instead of having a smooth dropoff like the pro.Other buttonsThe menu buttons look like the ones on the switch pro but they're actually soft rubber that depresses pretty deeply. Because of this it can be hard to tell when they actually input, unlike the pro where there is a loud satisfying click. They could be worse but the travel distance is too long for comfortThe back buttons are nice, close to the perfect form and resistance that I would like.TurboThe turbo function is decent, you can bind a button to turbo and set it between 5, 10, and 20hz (would have liked the option of 15hz), or you can use the software to bind a button (probably one of the back buttons) to Quick Turbo which temporarily turbos all other concurrently pressed buttons. I would have liked some more options but it would be hard to cover every conceivable situation and I'm not experienced with turbo in general so I don't really take any points off here.OtherThe body while a bit big is very light because of the lack of rumble, which you might know can make a controller feel cheap. It's not a big deal but it's hard to get around that psychological hurdle; if the dpad wasn't actually bad then I might have been able to get over that feeling.The software is decent, it's not as restrictive as I feared. You have lots of control with bindings and stuff. While you can set profiles, as far as I know you have to switch them through the software which is a bit of a pain, though I think you can rebind individual buttons at any time through the controller itself. I can't speak to the gyro-stick feature since I've never had any use for it, it sounds neat I guess, though I feel the controller being wired would be a little bit of an obstacle to that...I also don't have really anything of note to say about the sticks, I think I'd prefer if they were a little lower and had a tiny bit more resistance but with any new controller I expect to have to get used to a different stick.Summary:D-Pad: 1/10 terribleFace Buttons: 7/10 fine, bit uncomfortableShoulder Buttons: 7/10 fine, bit uncomfortableBack Buttons: 10/10 good as hopedMenu Buttons: 5/10 too softSticks: 8/10 little to noteSoftware: 8/10 mostly goodTotal: 6.5/10 not bad, but not for meFinal ThoughtsMaybe it was my mistake getting this controller marketed around its "motion aim" features, hoping it would be good for other stuff? By the name I expected it to just be an upgraded Horipad but even the Horipad solved the problem of the mushy dpad by optionally separating it into buttons. I would totally get and use the Horipad if it just had back buttons; and it's less than half the price of this controller. If you don't need the motion aim, back buttons, and fancy customizable turbo etc then save yourself $30 and get the normal horipad or find something else. As for me I'll have to decide whether to risk taking it apart and trying to replace or modify the d-pad, or return it and continue my search for the perfect controller.

The controller and buttons feel great. Nice to use. My only issue with the controller is that my computer reads the controller as a Xbox controller, so it uses their ABXY button functionality instead of the Switch Pro Controller. You'll have to use their HORI device manager app to swap the button layout to match the pro controller, but that'll also affect the layout on the Switch, so you'll have to keep swapping back and forth if you plan on using this controller for PC and Switch play. Aside from that, it's a great option if you want a wired pro controller for your Switch that can function as a better PC controller than the actual pro controller.

Excelente funciona perfectamente y hace todo lo que promete

Recomendado

Purchased this to play Smash Ultimate because I was hopeful analog snapback issues would be better vs pro controllers. Even if there was some snapback I figured the ability to customize deadzones would resolve any issue. Unfortunately, the snapback is so bad on this controller that I would have to set a deadzone greater than 50% to prevent it from happening at all. Not sure if this is an issue with every controller or just the one I received. Other than the snapback issues, I do like the feel of the controller overall so I'm giving this 3 stars. I will likely need to go back to a pro controller but this has held up well enough. Also the software to customize the controller on a PC was hard to find. The packaging does not tell you where to download it, and I was only able to find it on the Japanese Hori website which was hard to search, though there is an option to translate with google translate.

Got this for the programmable buttons on the back, even tried to use the hori app on my PC to do some button mapping, doesn't work for me. So app doesn't work, I can't edit buttons, PC registers it as an Xbox controller [ A and B buttons are swapped, can be confusing]However plugged into a switch dock, works like a normal controller, with some changes. Gyro functions differ on this controller. So it will mess with your game until you turn it off.Instructions only say where to plug it in and mentions the gyro controls. No app instructions for when you use it on pc.Still can't figure out how to program the back buttons - main purpose for my purchase.

Got this for the turbo feature to farm gold in pokemon scarlet/violet, worked well!

Inmediatamente se nota la ligereza del mando, su material se siente económico.Funciona bien, los joystick no tienen un rebote como el de Xbox adaptado al nintendo.La configuración por medio de la PC no me parece muy práctica pero funciona tambien.

Consider the price, it is very good quality controller.

Igual o mejor que un mando de PS5 🤩👌🏼👌🏼

It's a little expensive for what it is but it was a good placeholder for my PC while I needed to find a better one for fighting games specifically. The buttons are pretty good. L and R are alright. ZL and ZR are mostly fine. The Start, Select. Home, and Share buttons are a little less great. Haven't tested the Gyro slider. The two buttons on the back change the Minimum Range and Maximum Range of the right analog stick (left back button halves the maximum input value range, right back button makes the minimum range equivalent to the maximum range). It's overall pretty good.