10 Worst Mass-Market Video Game Controllers Of All Time

9. Wii U Gamepad

Sorry Nintendo, you were just too quick out the door with this one. Whilst the Switch refines and makes more appealing the notion of an all-portable home console, this half-step resulted in a controller that looked as though every major console feature had been thrown in a pot, the result being some flash-fried concoction of potential with zero execution.

To be totally fair to it, the Gamepad did allow you to turn off the TV and play something like Wind Waker HD on your couch, but the whole thing felt like a Fisher Price-esque, 'My First Controller'.

It was bulky, quick to make your hands ache, had zero design aesthetic other than the kitchen sink approach, and included a weird little 'lip' on the back that, well, I still have no idea what that was for.

Basically, if the horrendous mass of pulped flesh that emerges at the close of INSIDE was a game controller, it'd be the Wii U Gamepad.