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A new contender for the ugliest game controller ever made has popped up on Amazon, but at least it’s cheap.
For as long as there have been video games, there have been third party manufacturers trying to sell their own compatible controllers, typically as a cheaper alternative to those offered by Nintendo and Sony.
It makes sense, given how expensive official controllers can be (a new PlayStation 5 controller costs £64.99 nowadays), but often these third party controllers get slapped with hideous designs that are meant to make them stand out – often for all the wrong reasons.
As such, we believe we’ve spotted the ugliest one ever made and it’s already available for the morbidly curious.
The controller in question comes from Hyperkin, which specialises in selling controllers and peripherals for every video game console you can think of.
Hyperkin is selling a wireless Bluetooth controller compatible with the Nintendo Switch, PCs, and mobile devices, that’s officially licensed by Cap’n Crunch.
If you don’t recognise the name, Cap’n Crunch is an American cereal brand (one that’s been around since the 60s) and while we can’t comment on the cereal itself, this controller design certainly isn’t very tasteful.
It’d be one thing if it just had the logo and mascot slapped across it, but the controller is almost completely covered with the cereal itself, which at first glance we mistook for uncooked pasta.
Combined with the rest of the controller being bright red and the light-blue buttons, it just looks wrong. The red and blue on their own would probably look fine (it works for the Nintendo Switch), but throwing yellow on top of that with the cereal feels strangely unappetising.
If you’re the sort of person who finds something appealing about ugly controllers, it is available for purchase on Amazon and at a temporary 10% discount. It’s a limited edition too, so this could become quite the rarity one day.
We couldn’t find a UK listing on Amazon, but you can import it from America if you’re willing to pay extra for import fees. On it’s own though it costs $44.83, which is roughly £33.50.
There are other patterns as well – three Tetris themed ones and three based on a cartoon called Miraculous Ladybug – but none of them are as bad as the Cap’n Crunch one (the one covered in tetrominos honestly looks pretty nice).
One thing we’ll credit it for, though, is that the shape of the controller is at least traditional. There have been some wacky looking official controllers over the years, such as the ones for the Atari Jaguar and Nintendo’s short lived Virtual Boy, but this one’s ugliness is only skin deep.
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