Do you ever buy Non-Original accessories

[upeopt]

Do you ever buy Non-Original accessories, such as third-party controllers, memorycards etc., or is that a "sin" to you as gamers?

[bizzgeburt]

I clearly prefer originals, getting rid of any 3rd. party stuff as quick as possible. But there're some cases in which a comparable original item doesn't exist... and if this accessory is useful, I'll use it. Example: GameBoy lighted magnifiers.

[bikingjahuty]

I don't have an issue with others buying third party accessories, but I always choose first party, authentic ones. At least for me they feel the best to use and have the highest build quality (typically). I've had a few third party controllers back in the day and I always hatted using them because none of them felt as good to use and play with as the original, first party materials. While this falls under the third party accessory category, I've never used a clone controller I actually liked. The buttons just feel off and if there is any sort of analogue stick they're either less responsive, or just feel stiff. So yeah, I typically always go first party, original.

[sworddude]

As a kid with no money back in the day yes,  I can either buy 1 controller at 30 or 3 for 10 each

And being the o so Generous Host, always dumping the 3rd party cube controller with inferior buttons on my visitors while using the original one that came with the console for moi.
and obviously to avoid this treatment elsewhere bringing my own controller.

[diehard]

Not for a long time, but the Hori products always catch my eye.

[sly345]

For controllers, obviously. There are a lot of good brands and sometimes, it was basically mandatory. A good example being the Master System. The original controllers are awful in every way. I got a Competition Pro branded Honey Bee and it's just so much better and more comfortable to use. 
Same on the SNES, i got original controllers, but i prefer the Asciiware one (though that actually is officially licensed by Nintendo even)

Back in the day, i bought a whole stack of unbranded Playstation 1 Memory Cards, simply because they were 1/3 in price of what Sony charged and some games could fill up entire cards by itself (sports games especially), so i needed a ton of them. They surprisingly work to this day perfectly fine.
I don't see a problem with that.

[doafan]

I literally only buy generic controllers 

[turf]

 Nope.
I’m all OG all the time. Not because it’s a sin or some silly purest mentality. They just are the highest quality.

[sworddude]

Back in the day, i bought a whole stack of unbranded Playstation 1 Memory Cards, simply because they were 1/3 in price of what Sony charged and some games could fill up entire cards by itself (sports games especially), so i needed a ton of them. They surprisingly work to this day perfectly fine.
I don't see a problem with that.

They have higher fail rates than originals, originals don't really fail while 3rd party ones have allot of reports.

That being said odds are stacked in your favor and in more cases than not they will work perfectly fine and they often have more storage than originals.

Not for a long time, but the Hori products always catch my eye.

I don't count hori as non original their quality is good and they actually worked with nintendo and playstation on multiple really great controllers back in the day.

[sly345]

They have higher fail rates than originals, originals don't really fail while 3rd party ones have allot of reports.

That being said odds are stacked in your favor and in more cases than not they will work perfectly fine and they often have more storage than originals.

So far in 30 years i only had 2 memory cards fail on me, one was a Blaze 2x for the PS1, that had that little switch for the two memory banks, one of them died just 3 months in and the other was in fact a official Sony PS2 memory card that after some time had read and write errors.
The one that amazes me the most is the Gamester N64 Memory Pak with the 2 dip switches and 4 memory banks, altogether squeezed in the same size and nearly the same weight as a official pak. 25 years and running perfectly fine.

Now if we wanna talk about bad Third party products, i got the Mad Catz Dream Wheel... 
Seriously, i think steering wheels are the biggest example of "you get what you pay for", pay cheap and they suck, you have to spend hundreds of euro for a decent one. I got a Thrustmaster TMX Pro for my PC and while that is pretty low tier compared to the serious Sim Wheels from Fanatec (1000+ €) it's light years ahead of all the crappy third party wheels i got for my consoles.

[Cartagia]

When I was younger I was almost exclusively buying third-party accessories.  First party was expensive!  I've still got a few of them around somewhere, but now it's first or second party for everything.

[covfefe2020]

For controllers, I usually hate to, especially for the Gamecube, nothing has ever been able to recreate the quality of the OG's there.
For the first Xbox, I have found pretty much any controller to be perfectly serviceable. Every other type of accessory besides controllers I love third party. Link cables, memory cards, and anything else I think is just great to have a cheap, out of the box version of. Tomee, PowerA, and Hori all have my heart.

What I desperately want is for any 3rd party company to step up and reproduce the Gamecube LAN adapter that slots under the console. It still costs around $99 on eBay and although I know there's very little market for the 2 games that it supports, I really want to see a cheap version of it so that I can play kirby airride and mariokart double dash with all of my cousins.