I have a PowerA Switch controller that I used when I would play Smash Ultimate, and it has served me well for that time.

Come Fire Emblem Engage, I’ve been putting my regular Pro Controller through too much stress because fishing is a glorified Mario Party mashing minigame, so I was planning on using the PowerA controller while I wait for a turbo controller to come in the mail.

Boy do I remember how much I hated the design and as how the internet refers it — anti consumer.

So it runs off USB type B, which is obviously different than the type C the Switch normally uses. No problem. What IS a problem is that not just any USB type B cable works, and it’s not because of some handshake technology that you would find in Sony’s Dualshock series. No, the cables of course need to have a groove so it can fit nicely in the port on the controller. That is so freaking whack. It’s like how the 3DS cartridges had that little “nudge” to the side that made it so they wouldn’t fit in regular DS models.

So why is it anti consumer? I literally chipped off the notch on the controller port itself that was meant for the groove on the cable to fit into, and now any cable fits like a charm.

Needless to say I won’t be continuing business with PowerA, at least when it comes to wired controllers. I thought proprietary memory cards for the PS Vita was bad but pseudo proprietary cables? Unbelievable. 

Now excuse me while I go enjoy some apple pie.