Basically I am a person in which it must be original only not always. Particularly when an original is substantially more expensive (which is not the case here). The original steering wheel of Nintendo is better in the hand than similar copies. Visually, I find it better, but that's a matter of taste. A difference with other steering gears is the handling of the button B on the back. Many copies here is mostly just a hole through which you can operate the remote control set into the knob. When Nintendo original is here in the steering wheel is no hole but an extra button that rests on the B button on the remote control, which increases the convenience. Since there are now no major price differences between the more copies and the original, I would not hesitate to pick up the original.