I seriously considered getting one for my wife about 6 months ago. She's a casual controller gamer on her laptop, so I thought I'd spring for something with a little quality for her.

I had an official Xbox controller in my hand ready to check out and decided against it because when I looked, there were so many accounts of the controller just falling apart on people. It's not worth paying a premium $80 for a controller that doesn't last a year.

She still plays on a 10 year old black 360 controller with a wireless adapter and has zero problems.