GuliKit’s new anti-drift Switch 2 controllers are budget-friendly alternatives to Nintendo’s

The caller GuliKit ES and ES Pro controllers are perchance an affordable companion for the Switch 2. | Image: GuliKit

After debuting its affordable $29.99 Elves 2 controller past month, GuliKit is backmost with different budget-friendly alternate to Nintendo’s Switch 2 Pro Controller — if you similar an asymmetrical joystick layout.

Both the $24.99 GuliKit ES and $29.99 ES Pro controllers are disposable starting contiguous successful grey for the cheaper mentation and your prime of achromatic oregon achromatic for the pro model. GuliKit is positioning some controllers arsenic being perfect for e-sports competitors with precocious Bluetooth polling rates and reduced latency that the institution claims outperforms the controllers included with the PS5 and Xbox.

But the ES and ES Pro volition perchance entreaty adjacent much to non-competitive gamers who are much funny successful uncovering an affordable alternate to the $89.99 Switch 2 Pro Controller without sacrificing overmuch functionality to deed a little terms point.

The $25 GuliKit ES features anti-drift Hall effect joysticks (Nintendo’s uses the same problematic joystick technology arsenic the erstwhile version) and triggers, a gyroscope for games that enactment question controls, and a 950mAh artillery with up to 30 hours of playtime. It supports Windows PCs and Android devices, but similar GuliKit’s Elves 2, the ES and ES Pro are some Switch compatible and tin beryllium utilized to aftermath the Switch 2. That’s a diagnostic that’s inactive not communal amongst third-party Switch 2 controllers.

The pricier $30 GuliKit ES Pro carries guardant each the aforesaid features but adds upgraded and much precise anti-drift tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) joysticks with adjustable sensitivity, a D-pad that tin beryllium switched betwixt 4 and eight-direction modes, and the quality to swap betwixt PC and Switch fastener layouts — with alternate buttons being sold separately.

There are a mates of Switch 2 Pro Controller features you won’t find connected either of these. The ES and ES Pro can’t beryllium utilized to scan Amiibo figures, and they don’t person an further acceptable of buttons connected the back. But those look similar tiny tradeoffs fixed you’re not lone redeeming implicit $60 by choosing either of these implicit Nintendo’s, you’re besides getting a controller with amended joystick hardware that volition perchance past a batch longer.