Xbox AA battery swaps are preferable to me. Easy quick swaps. No charging downtime. Low self-discharge Eneloops are cheap enough and have been available for over a decade.The switch pro controller is absolutely worth the money it's super high quality and the battery lasts forever charges fast when it dies too. Not like the Xbox controller where you have to use your own batteries or
Use them in multiple devices. Never worry about replacing an aging proprietary lithium ion battery that's lost its charge capacity through the years, or through heat stresses, non-use or faulty manufacture. No tools or 'service' to quickly swap or replace an AA. Far cheaper overall. Not tied to one device.
But personally I still use wired controllers and removed the RF board from my 360. Wireless gets no use.
No airplane mode. No 100% wired console gaming choices.
If Nintendo, Sony & Microsoft had any clue, they'd treat (and market) wired controllers as equivalents to wireless (at the very least), instead of treating them as featureless afterthoughts (if that). They should allow users the choice to game 100% wired with no background bluetooth being emitted, instead of taking that choice away and having millions of customers exposed to damaging microwaves....as if there wasn't enough of that already.
Today's consoles are among the only wireless-capable devices with no Airplane Mode and a seemingly complete lack of interest in first-party 100% wired gaming for those that want it. Despite the evidence showing 2.4Ghz is far from harmless.
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