8BitDo Pro 3 Bluetooth Controller for Switch/Switch 2 – TMR Joysticks, Swappable ABXY Buttons, Pro Back Buttons, Charging Dock, Hall Effect Triggers, for Windows, Apple, SteamOS, Android – Gray

8BitDo answered the call for Steam Input and went beyond expectations.
I have waited a long time since the Horipad Steam Controller for any manufacturer to step up to the plate and add Steam Input as an option on a controller that has great build quality for 70$ it lacked Gyro Support, Rumble, it also did not have a good USB-C to USB-A controller that would disconnect at points but I still thought something like this needed to exist on the market and there was potential for someone else to do it correctly. 8BitDo has answered my call and went beyond expectations. I will go into the main points of why anyone should get it and also what they can improve for the future.1.Steam Input, which is the main selling point it is extremely helpful. I can remap the extra buttons on the back and on the shoulder buttons. Absolutely easy with D-Input enabled in the back of the controller. Also Steam will go into Big Picture Mode if you hold the Pixel Heart on the lower right when in D-Input mode. Both of these features do work on Windows.2.The ability to easily move around the Face Buttons easily with a puller without needing to buy another controller for the Xbox Face Buttons or to switch it back to Nintendo. Face Buttons are magnetic, and they are strong. You would need to throw a controller against the wall or really use your nails to open them. This went beyond my expectations.3. Can move from Xbox(S-X), D-Input(D) and Switch(S) very easily by sliding the toggle left or right and it is very straightforward and easy to understand when looking behind the controller including if you are in BT mode or 2.4GHZ if you are not on a Wired connection.4. TMR Joysticks do feel really premium and the Precision is on point when moving the Joystick around which is a natural evolution of the Hall Effect Joystick.5. Rumble feels like Full HD Rumble and not just HD Rumble6. D-Pad has such an excellent Tactile feeling more so than the Pro 2, and I like the tiny satisfying click noise it makes when I move the D-Pad.7. The Gyro Support is great and it works much better than the Pro 2 even though that was perfect already. I tried it on my Switch for Mario Odyssey and found no issues.Improvements for the future.1. Add a 8.5-10 ft USB-C to USB-A cable Braided Cable in the box. I understand the Pro 3 has so many features and has better build quality that they most likely had to cut costs somewhere, but it would have been nice to have this. Maybe this can be in the next generation of the Pro Controller Lineup.2. Add Steam Input to Wireless 2.4GHZ as well. Currently it only supports Bluetooth and Wired. A firmware update would help alleviate this for 8BitDo Controllers especially 8BitDo Pro 3 owners.3. Face Buttons would be a good idea to sell for this controller if anyone loses the default ones that came with the controller or wishes to customize their Face Buttons. If there was even potentially a way to get Sony Inspired Icons or even the SNES Inspired would be cool.4. I would like to also politely ask for Linux Support as it seems to only fully support Windows and SteamOS.Other than that. I do think this is a great controller and well worth the price. The pro’s outweighs most cons given as a whole. I still give it a 5* because it is hard to find fault with this controller and anything else can easily be supported or fixed in the future.

Great for Steam/SteamOS
I bought the controller specifically to use for Steam Input and it does not disappoint. Full customization in Steam/SteamOS.Some glaring problems for me…1. The face buttons are loud, annoyingly. I considered returning the controller just because of this but after considering the many good points of the controller, I decided to just mod it and it is quieter now. I do still wish it wasn’t this loud to begin with. Opening it was not easy though.2. The controller does not work with the 2.4 GHz dongle that it comes with in direct input mode or Steam Input mode. You have to use Bluetooth for that. And since I bought this specifically to use for Steam Input, gyro is important for me. Bluetooth just doesn’t cut it. It’s unstable, jittery and sometimes the gyro just sort of flies off on its own. Using it wired solves this entirely though but I would prefer to play with it wirelessly.3. This one is minor but it was a problem for me until I found how to “fix” it – the ABXY buttons are using the Nintendo layout, not Xbox, the controller by default even in D-input mode uses the Switch layout for the face buttons. I am aware you can swap the physical buttons but I am talking about the software side of things.Things that I like:1. The analog sticks are smooth and – in my experience, precise.2. Gyroscope feels accurate to me, I am used to the Steam Decks gyro and Dualsense Edge and I think they feel similar.3. D-pad, this is the best D-pad I have used on a controller so far. I only wish the facebuttons were this quiet too.4. Build quality is also great considering the price. Has some decent weight to it as well. Not too heavy or too light.

Quality is great for the price you are paying, everything is good, from the button mapping app to the charging dock.The interchangeable buttons are a bit too noisy, they feel loose but I think it was just manufactured that way

Le point négatif ? Les sticks ne sont pas les plus confortable et il manque des options de hauteur alors que les sticks sont remplaçables (par des boules arcades fournies inutiles).Sinon, c’est un sans faute pour moi, design, prise en main, assemblage, plastique utilisé, ça sent la qualité.Les sticks sont hyper précis et sans drift, on met la zone morte à zéro dans tous les jeux.Compatibilité PC et Switch impeccable, palettes bien placées, franchement, c’est devenu ma manette préférée.NB encore meilleure avec les embouts skull & co.