8Bitdo Zero 2 Bluetooth Gamepad Keychain Sized Mini Controller for Switch, Windows, Android, macOS & Raspberry Pi(Turquoise Edition)

Really good mini controller! I went to play games for the first time with my toddler and quickly realized his hands were to small to grip a standard controller AND hit buttons. I remembered back some 20 years ago I had a GameCube micro controller and figured something similar existed now. After alot of research I landed on this one, the size looked good and it is geared to retro gaming which is what I'm getting my toddler started on. The quality and battery life are solid, it fits his hands perfectly and it works great on our Switch and PC. When he upgrades to a larger platform with sticks I'll definitely consider 8bitdo again.For reference it is similar in size to one Switch chuk but way more comfortable to hold and easier to use.

Works great for Anki, and super easy to set up. Charge lasts long and connection is solid. If you do hundreds of Anki cards a day, definitely worth the price.

This controller is absolutely tiny. I say that right off the bat as if you've got larger hands, you might want to just look at the other controllers 8bitdo has, I'd recommend the SN30/SN30 pro series. If you've got trouble holding a sideways joycon, you will have trouble holding this. It's just a bit bigger than an airpod case, and pulling it out of the box made me realize just how small it is. I can clench my entire fist around it, and yet all the buttons for a default snes controller are here. It's quite impressive. It's light to carry around, but has a surprising weight to it. Again, to compare it to an airpod case, it's lighter than that, maybe around half it's weight.The controller comes with a wrist strap, a godsend as I fear if I sneeze while holding this it will go hurling across the room. No usb-c charging, unfortunately, it just comes with one of those android chargers, whatever they're called. The cable itself is also super tiny, no larger than 3-4 inches. I'm a little upset to see this, as the SN30 pro+ had usb-c charging and a nice long cable to boot.The buttons all feel nice to press, and the L and R buttons feel extremely clicky. Much better than the default joycon controllers. The dpad has a small issue detecting down forward diagonally, but the rest of the diagonals feel perfect, and even then the problem goes away as soon as I put just a bit more pressure than I'm used to. It might just be an issue with me. The front of the controller has a glossy finish, which always seems to get smudges and prints all over it. It's got a 1-2 hour charging time, and an 8 hour long battery life, supposedly. Again, a little sad, seeing that the SN30 pro+ can last me days, but comparing this controller to the premium controller 8bitdo has to offer is a bit unfair.This controller does what it advertises extremely well, and works on everything that has bluetooth. Switch, android, xinput, even ios, which I'm sure is perfect for people with a lot of different devices. If you're looking for a high quality third party controller, look at the SN30 models. They're extremely high quality, and one of my new favorites. But if you just want a small controller to take with you for travel, you absolutely can't go wrong with this. It's basically designed for NES, SNES, Gameboy, and Gameboy Advance emulators, and has been wonderful to use while on the road. It even has a keyboard functionality, so you can use it as a way to use hotkeys in drawing programs! The keys that are avaliable are, c d e f i j g h k m n o, pressing all of the buttons, the triggers, start and select, and the dpad. I'm sure someone much smarter than me could probably figure out how to remap the buttons to get what you need, and a video somewhere out there has to exist talking about this controller in that way.

Perfect for my four year-old daughter when she wants to participate in video games fits her small hands nicely. I had a problem connecting the Bluetooth after a couple of weeks, but customer support was very responsive. I figured out that I was using the wrong button combination to connect. works flawlessly now that I have that figured out. We use it with an iPad and it’s been great. We use the Delta emulator to play all sorts of old video games and this controller works perfectly for that.

If you've ever tried to connect a switch joycon to a PC and dealt with the massive headache that that process is(disconnections and re-pairing every single time, weird driver issues and incompatibilities, etc) this little thing is a life saver. Connects smoothly and easily to a pc via bluetooth either as a keyboard device or a game controller and *stays paired* when the computer is restarted. I use this device(with the joytokey program) as a remote to replace the quick buttons on the side of my drawing display when I'm using photoshop and clip studio paint. I had been using a single switch joycon with a clip in charging adapter and the aforementioned software headaches were driving me bananas when my husband suggested one of these.As seen in my pictures it's smaller by a decent amount than the joycon even without the added adapter and the difference in shape prompted me to pull out some sugru to make grippy bits to help keep hold of it(and wiggly eyes bc who doesn't like those?) but once I got used to it its a pretty decent replacement. If I had one wish, it'd be for trigger buttons on the back or even just normal buttons back there to replace losing those two extra keys. Having as many key combinations as I can makes a huge difference in convenience and speed when navigating clip studio while drawing. If I magically got another wish it'd be for some kind of grippy case to hold it vertically like I do.*staring wistfully at all you 3d-printing geniuses out there*On the software side of things as I mentioned getting it connected is incredibly easy. There's even instructions printed on the back of the device itself to show which keys to press to connect in the different modes. I use it in controller mode with joytokey as I couldn't find a way to remap the keyboard mode keys to things that are more useful for me. It stays paired to my computer even after many restarts and turning bluetooth on and off for any reason. This is something the joycon struggled with so much I nearly launched it across the room several times in frustration.Overall I'm really really pleased with this little thing and highly recommend it. Especially for the price! Despite my mini wishlist of upgrades I went ahead and got a second one to have as backup for when I inevitably try unsuccessfully to take it apart again to modify. Did I mention they're built very solidly? No matter what I tried I couldn't get it to come apart with anything short of smashing it open or cutting into the plastic. Its impressive. Oh! And it comes with the cutest teeny tiny little micro usb charging cable I've ever seen. So so nice to not have another long cable to coil and tuck somewhere on my desk. Anyway I love this thing and I'm done typing walls of text about it. Hope it helps you decide. :)