Grip This

Foreword. I'm not one to relish in gimmicks or trinkets or overhauling modifications. I like my controller clean and pretty.

Afterword. Thus why did I spend the five dollars on an attachment I'd only fancy a wee bit? My "Clean and pretty" Xbox 360 controller is from 2006, used almost everyday for the past five years. The stick is worn beyond the concave and sloped more then an on ramp. It's a rolling lump. An impractical mess so to speak.

Rather then replace the stick (as I should have possibly done instead) I figured this would be the easiest course of action. And it was. It is a solution to a problem.

A solution that will allow me a little longer with a dying controller.

But as I've made abundantly clear, these things are not at all in the slightest necessary. I find that I still loose "grip" from time to time depending on the game and the actions occurring. Their dry sticky style of suction is both adhesive and distracting. From constant use I find my mind drifting from game to controller as the little firm frog foot clings to my thumb. Maybe that is just a personal dilemma but it is worth noting that if you like me find yourself constantly enthralled by the game you're playing, these might unsettle you at first as they have me.

Final word. I hate that these will not fit over a FPS Freak*. They're too small. And the contrast of slightly worn FPS Freak to Grip-iTs is definitely distracting. Otherwise I like them. Not enough to fully one hundred percent recommend them and then and only then would I suggest to those like myself with an old worn out controller but there is enough here to warrant the small investment if curious. These things don't "slip" and don't add much height (if you aren't into that sort of thing).

No "gluing" required in the writing of this review or use of product.

*[Supposedly one must flip them inside out to make them work, decal down. Yet to try]


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-Rossini