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The Chinese esports company BigBigWon is going to be announcing their new controllers at CES. Their Rainbow 2 Pro controller is used at tournaments and should be getting upgraded to Hall Effect this year. I think this is the best all round controller and is the only 2.4ghz pro controller with 4 programmable buttons (2 rear, 2 extra bumpers) and the headphone jack works both in wired and wireless mode. (Xbox shape).

The best controller just for hall effect at the moment though is probably the Flydigi Vader 4 Pro. Should never lose tension on the hall effect sticks ever, 6 programmable buttons (4 rear, 2 bonus face buttons near abxy). No headphone jack. (Xbox shape)

The freak controller is the Gamesir Tarantula with 8 programmable buttons, Hall Effect sticks, and there's a button that activates a motor to change the button layout between Nintendo and Xbox controllers which should be very useful for emulators (PlayStation shape).

Valve should be releasing an official Steam Deck Controller this year also.

For F-Zero I would probably get a Vader 4 Pro and use the long thumb stick for the left stick. Rainbow 2 Pro and Vader 4 have swappable thumbstick lengths.