Nintendo’s best Switch accessory was a cheap one everyone hated

When the Nintendo Switch released on March 3, 2017, a broke graduate student (me) managed to scrape together just enough money to buy the console and a copy of Breath of the Wild. I hadn’t played a console Zelda game since Twilight Princess, and the prospect of seeing this gorgeous new world on a screen bigger than approximately six inches was tantalizing. Yet a Pro Controller was far outside my budget, which meant the prospect would remain tantalizingly unrealized.