Xbox 360 TSZ Wired Controller

This product is not designed to last. If you play a lot of FPS games like I do, there's a lot of joystick work to be done. The buttons work fine, trigger sensitivity is all good. The digital d-pad is a little finicky though. It takes a lot of practice to hit only ONE direction.

This controller has silicone pads on its joysticks that grip really well to your skin. However, they do NOT grip well to the plastic underneath that they are bonded to. After a while, the silicone pads start to tear open at the seam, eventually just falling off. What you get then is a rather unusable hard plastic core of the thumbstick.

You're better off spending some money on a legit Microsoft 360 controller that's built with solid construction and will be guaranteed to last.

I decided to go for three of these wired controllers because of the cheap price. They look, feel, and play great. They also work well with PC games.

I do, however, tend to have some technical problems that seem to be related to them. Occasionally I will get a dirty disc error (which can be caused by hardware malfunctions) when starting up Halo 2 on the Xbox 360. Also, the headset icon blinks a lot on Halo 2 (for when there is input), even though there are no headsets connected. I may have just received a bad controller, but I haven't narrowed it down to which controller causes the problem.

Still, I would recommend these controllers for a much cheaper alternative to 1st party controllers

This is a nice wired controller.

It is lighter than the wireless controller, it looks better, it doesn't use any batteries, and because it's a USB controller, it can be used on PC even.

So yeah, I totally recommend this controller to anybody who is looking for a second controller for his xbox 360