outside of my old atari tennis paddle pads, this is the most comfortable controller i've ever used. The typical complaints from people are that it's heavy, it's big, and the xbox stinks.You can easily disregard the third typical complaint. Yes the controller is big, but they don't make controllers for 3 year olds. yes it's a tad bit on the heavy size, but if you're having trouble picking the controller up, please pick some weights up because you're frickin lazy. Overall the controller is like everything else for the xbox, people who hate it hate microsoft and never owned the xbox. The rest of us love/like it and do own it.