50 60 bucks?

What about $200?

The scuff vantage controller is packed full of features, back paddles, side buttons and tons of customization.

But all of those features don't come cheap.

But what about something cheaper?

More like $25.

The easy SMS controller is just that.

It's a cheap bailed with no fancy features.

I tried both of these controllers to find out if the scuff vantage is really eight times better than the Easy S M X.

So right off the bat, it feels a lot better than I expected.

It has a decent way to it, which will only get a little bit heavier when there are actually batteries installed.

It feels a little bit smaller than I'd like.

So this controller, it is wireless, but it doesn't use Bluetooth.

The dangles honestly, bigger than I was expecting.

It wouldn't matter if it was plugged in like a desktop PC, but on a laptop they might look pretty silly.

So next up is the scuff vantage controller.

It's a super large box.

I mean, compared to the easy s M X box, the difference is pretty substantial, So this controller has a ton of features.

Some of those extras include these four bottom paddles you can see down here as well as thes side sacks.

Buttons.

This one feels way sturdier than the Easy S M X.

That one almost felt hollow.

This feels like there is some weight to it.

You can't really take this controller in.

It's first iteration, because you can change a lot of this out to exactly what you want it to be.

It can work over either Bluetooth or, if you want, the lowest Leighton see possible with this controller.

You do have the option to use a wired connection.

I do like that.

It's an internal battery you don't have to worry about always having double A's or switching up double A's.

But there's actually a lot more included in this box, so you have different thumb sticks.

You also have longer triggers.

You could easily swap these in.

We're gonna test both these controllers out to see how the $200 scuffed vantage compares to the $25 easy S M X wireless controller.

So after using these controllers for a while, I got a pretty good idea about how they compared.

And honestly, the results surprised me.

This controller is really good, but it's not perfect.

And I almost expected to be at this price point.

I really loved the customization of this controller.

You have so many options.

And it was a lot of fun trying out each of the different control sticks and just seeing what I could do for each game insecure.

Oh, for example, I tried to remap things like one of the bottom paddles to using an item so I could easily heal while still controlling the camera with my right thumb.

But it still didn't feel super necessary when I was playing the game.

Normally with the Easy S M X, for example, I didn't feel like I was missing out on anything.

And the innermost paddles are actually really difficult depressed, and I didn't end up using them at all.

But with all of these added features, I'm still not sure if it's worth $200.

So now on to the cheaper controller, the Easy S M X, it feels like it's worth $25 but not much more.

The easy SMS controller gets the job done with literally no bells or whistles at all.

This controller does feel kind of cheap, like it would probably break if you dropped it.

I don't think it would survive as long as the scuff would, but you kind of get used to that.

At least I did after half an hour to an hour of using it.

Although I will say that for a little less money.

If you don't need wireless, you're almost better off going with the wired option of this controller because you don't have this giant battery pack.

I can ignore it a little bit, but every so often, if I adjust my grip, you could just kind of feel it between your fingers.

But this is only part of the picture.

There are a lot of game genres that I just don't play.

So I asked two of my co workers to check these out.

So yeah, when I first picked up the Easy S M X clearly was an Xbox 3 60 knockoff.

Even within that doesn't have all the features of an Xbox 3 60 controller.

It doesn't have the headphone jack.

It's still relies on double A batteries, and you need a wireless dongle to pair it.

I just want to point out for the sake of it, I think this controller actually has a better D pad than the original Xbox 3 61 because that was terrible and they should still be ashamed for the sake of accessibility.

It's good that the stuff has all these modular options, but I don't know that the average person would be able to make use of all the different settings that there are.

I like using it for Apex legends, but it has, like these huge other problems where, for instance, aiming is floatie and inconsistent, and that's kind of something huge.

If you're playing a first person shooter, it's hard to understand the value of the stuff controller at $200.

If they both work, there is essentially no way that one is going to be eight times more valuable because they're accomplishing mostly the same things in general.

I didn't have any issues with the stuff, but I will say occasionally when I was switching out the thumb sticks, if I didn't press down one of them all the way, it would almost stick and it wouldn't pop back into place like that.

It's something like this is really not something you want to see on a $200 controller.

There were also little things like changing out the triggers.

You almost feel like you're going to break something when you're spending so much money on a controller.

I would be apprehensive to just yank these off all the time and switch them out.

I should note there were some firmware issues with the scuff vantage that was reported at launch.

But most of that seems to have been fixed in a firmware update released a couple months ago in terms of connectivity, and they both paired easily and there wasn't any noticeable Leighton see or lag.

I think the buttons on the easiest Mex controller are fine, but not very good, and it feels like the triggers have a lot of distance to travel before they're actually pressed down.

Also, l one and are one are super clicky.

The Easy S M X controller has really smooth thumb sticks, and it's a very stark contrast between the scuff vantage controller, which has extremely grippy thumb sticks.

The D pad on the scuff vantage controller feels way better than the Easy S M X.

In terms of unique or standout features, the easiest MX doesn't really have any.

It's got a turbo button that says one different feature.

The scuff, on the other hand, is all about the customization.

You could spend more time customizing this controller than playing games with it.

But all of this customization and all these unique features are only useful if you will actually use them for context.

I bought my PS four for $200.

It seems kind of hard to justify a controller when you could spend the same amount of money and get an entire console that also comes with a controller.

If you pick up one and then you pick up the other, you can tell that there's a huge difference in quality and the Easy S M X feels a lot cheaper.

But if you play with one of them for a little while, that kind of goes away.

So without considering the price, the scuff wins.

Hands down.

But if I was shopping for a controller, I picked the easy S M X, not the scuff.

Do you remember when Homer made a car homer made a car on The Simpsons, and it just had, like, everything like it just had, like, a bunch of nonsense.

And it was more or less just like a bunch of innovation for the sake of innovation, but wasn't very good at being a car.

I feel like the vantage is that.