What are the most affordable third party controllers that Xbox will accept?

Hello, JerusPI. I'm Arturo, and I'll be glad to provide assistance with your inquiry today.

Usually, $60 controllers are the ones that work wirelessly. However, you can reduce the price by purchasing a wired licensed controller.

A good example is Power A controllers, they often cost ~$30 and depending on where you live, you could check if a store has them at a discounted price.

In case you're interested in a wireless controller, you could try checking second hand ones or check if a store has a discount on a licensed wireless controller as well.

Apart from that and as a general recommendation. Please always make sure to purchase official products. You can identify if a controller from a third party brand is official by identifying the “Designed for Xbox” logo in the box or the listing description.

More information about brands and accessories can be found here:

https://www.xbox.com/designed-for-xbox

Regards,

Arturo.

If you want a longer life cycle 3rd gen controllers are much better with profiles and programmable keys and hall effects sticks which last.over 10 years and 12hour.battery life

Examples are ms.seil (not released). And pdp bFg and turtle beach stealth ultra all licensed and wireless there are pdp wired that are affordable with hall effects

I just sold 2 series controllers and one regular.xbox one controller so I could.pay off my stealth which I got for.200 CAD

Refurbished at 3months

Vs 200 USD

you can get well made third party controllers that in some ways are better quality than Microsoft. and they are super cheap too. if you cannot afford even that then new priorities are in order.

There will most definitely be some form of a wired controller, but it will probably be third-party. Latency on wireless controllers is almost negligible as-is. Considering they are supposed to have improved upon the response times for the Xbox One, I'd wager
it doesn't really matter one way or the other. But, regardless, I definitely expect to see some form of wired third-party controller.

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On a side-note, did you know that all third-party controllers for the Xbox 360 are required to be wired? I'd assume the same thing would be mandated for Xbox One as well.

But what happens if you didnt buy an extended warranty from third party vendor ? Will they accept it?