The 10 Worst Gaming Peripherals of the Last Decade

If we’re being honest, there are a lot of really bad gaming peripherals out there. Everyone remembers wild debacles like the Nintendo Power Glove: possibly the worst controller ever made.

Of course, when we think of bad peripherals, we tend to think of disasters from the ’80s and ’90s. But you may not expect that the last decade brought us some of the worst gaming peripherals ever made!

From useless add-ons to company-destroying flops, here are the worst gaming peripherals from the last 10 years. So long 2010s: you won’t be missed for the following reasons.

PS4 Keyboard Attachment

At first glance, this PS4 keyboard attachment may seem pretty useful. After all, PlayStation users never know when they’ll need to type something out.

However, the regular controller functions pretty darn well when you need to search for things like games and movies. And voice chat means that sending text messages to your buddies is mostly a thing of the past.

All in all, this superfluous add-on never really had a chance.

Kinect

The original Kinect got its start on the Xbox 360. However, Microsoft continued the experiment by releasing a new and improved version for Xbox One.

While the voice control for movies was pretty cool, the camera tracking never worked that well for games. And there weren’t that many good Kinect games to begin with.

Eventually, the best features of Kinect were functionally replaced by Microsoft’s own Cortana. That left the Kinects of the world propping up the aisles in thrift shops across the country.