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it's been a while since the controller has caught my eye like the thrustmaster

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e-swap x pro controller and maybe i'm just getting you know caught

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up in the xbox series x series s hype but this thing looks pretty freaking sweet

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compared to their last generation model it's got upgraded analog sticks which

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supposedly have better like resistance sort of

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whatever that means that

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better physical resistance improved re-centering positioning

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and double the lifespan so

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uh we'll get to that in a second first things first you got your quick start

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guide a little thing for their thrust mapper

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so this is their software that allows you to set up profiles you can

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remap the buttons to the ones on the back on the fly

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so you're not required to use the software but hey it's an option if you

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want it and then of course one of the big features of this guy

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is the modular uh there we go

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modular analog sticks and d-pad

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sort of pieces here so what this allows you to do

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is set up more like a

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we go dual shock style two analog sticks

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here d-pad over here or i mean i guess

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if you were like you know totally demented

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you could put uh a d-pad over here

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and then two analog sticks over here and given that you can actually buy

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additional modules i don't think anything would prevent you from done oh yeah

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of course if we're gonna cover a modular controller we gotta

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we gotta get a get a module here you could even go

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three analog sticks if you really wanted to so this

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is the sx nxg so nxg i think is

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next gen mini stick module and it comes

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with a whole lot of nothing while

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theoretically you could get modules with different characteristics

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there's nothing on here that indicates that

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that's the case um but for whatever

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reason this one has a different part number than the ones that were included

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i mean i have seen that before where there's different part numbers for like

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the replacement one versus the one that comes with it i don't know i don't understand why that's necessary but it

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seems like that might be the case here there you go the

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the three analog stick it's like having

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a third nipple it's like there's nothing wrong with it it's just not the usual

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uh configuration that's all initial impressions

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actually d-pad feels pretty darn good

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like if i was playing a retro platformer or something like that

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i could get very comfortable with this i like the ergonomics of

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the i don't know i don't know what these are called but the

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you know judy boys at the bottom here

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actually kind of reminds me of the dual sense to be perfectly honest with you

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uh on that subject no you cannot use it with a playstation 5. it is

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xbox and pc only but it's of course

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xbox series and then also xbox one

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the xbox one series as well

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um but what i will say is that compared to

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for example i've got a first generation elite controller here

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and compared to this it is very obviously designed for someone with

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longer fingers bigger hands like even with this in the background here you can

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see this is a larger controller and one of the key features is these

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remappable buttons on the back here but to be honest with you like look at

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this if i'm holding this in a comfortable position where i can actually reach the menu buttons on the

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top i can barely reach these ones with my

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ring fingers and my middle fingers are not really able to do much of

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anything here like i have to go and put my hands at this unnatural angle in

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order to reach these so unless you've got longer hands i

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don't think you're going to be finding those that useful as for the feel of the rest of the

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buttons abxy really nice you can actually you can

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really hear that sound really like the feel of those switches

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easy to press nice and tactile

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i'd say the presses on the analog sticks

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are normal nothing really stands out to me about them

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wow

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those have to be among the loudest shoulder buttons i have ever heard

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all right so the triggers on the back

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they've actually got two different modes so you can either

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there you go flip this switch right here and put it in like kind of a hair

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trigger mode or you can flip it back to the regular

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position and unlock the full travel the idea here

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being that if you're playing a shooter or something like that you want a shorter travel so that it can

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respond more quickly and bounce back more quickly and if

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you're playing a racing game then you want to unlock the full travel for finer control of the throttle in

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practice i'm not sure if i feel like it makes much of a difference immediately

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but we'll see we're going to fire up some games here before we do that though i

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should probably have a look at the rest of the accessories that are included in the package

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we've got these little convex

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joystick toppers quality of them feels really nice

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so you just thread the old ones off there's actually what looks like a

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rubber o-ring to keep it from accidentally slipping off while you're playing it would sort

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of act as kind of a thread locker i don't think that i'm that into the

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convex top it's got the same really nice

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feeling rubberized grip something i thought was interesting is they don't provide you another one of

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these convex tops when you buy a new uh

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a new module so it only comes with the concave one that's the default so what

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that means is if these are actually your preference you're probably going to have to buy them separately

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cable suitably adequate

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carrying bag there's a phillips head screwdriver with a

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pokey thing oh interesting i think i figured this out

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so you put that in there and pop out the module

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and then if you wanted to swap out

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say for example uh oops

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you got a lefty loose seat there you go if you wanted to

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swap out a trigger then you could do

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that as well those are swappable too neat this is why

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it's always fun to unbox things when you haven't actually like

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done any research on the product i get to discover the features with you

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okay well that's cool personally i would like something more grippy here so

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maybe that's an accessory that they sell my

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lord this thing is expensive hot diggity

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definitely feels premium like it's this is a first gen elite controller by the

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way but it definitely feels more rigid in spite of being larger

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but wow it ain't cheap

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and it's not even wireless that's a funny one to me like what

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what year is it nice long cable i guess

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it's schtick it's gonna be that you can change the color stuff then i guess

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we might as well do it you know this would also be a good opportunity to put

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to the test just how easy it is does one of my kids

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want to come help me for a minute i need you guys to help me pick which

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color buttons we want to put on the controller

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okay apparently we're going with blue

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there you go okay that was it

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we swapped the whole thing out to a blue themed one now

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thank you darlings see you later

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bye-bye loaded up a couple games here to at least try out and see how it goes

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start with some do maternal so we're going to try out the

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shooter trigger mode here i can definitely feel a little of the

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designed for larger mitzness i wasn't

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really expecting it but oh you know what

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i wonder if part of the problem is just that i'm more accustomed to the

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traditional xbox oh okay

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that definitely helps i mean it's cool that you can just swap that quickly

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like if i'm playing a you know old-school

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platform game or something like that i'm like yeah i really want like a nice d-pad right here instead of having to

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reach over here for it pretty sweet oh wow i didn't even notice

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this before volume control mic button and okay you got a couple of

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profile buttons down here so that's pretty sweet as well as the map button so this allows

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you to remap these without even actually using the thrustmaster software one thing i would

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definitely use the software to adjust is the dead zone

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so right now it's a little bit large for me you can see i can move this a fair

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bit without anything actually happening

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uh i prefer dead zones to be as small as humanly possible

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weird when i'm in reverse the rumble

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feels great but then feels really

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cheap on the forward i have no idea if

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that's just my unit but it really doesn't feel that

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great now when i break and go in reverse it feels great like really deep

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and then it's just kind of on the gas

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oops yeah i just suck at racing games

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feels great other than that rumble issue if i were you i would check out

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some other reviews and see if they've had the same problem

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before pulling the trigger so to speak

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oops oops oops see you later

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pretty good customizable definitely feels quality

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the wire's a bit of a bummer and so is the price so whether or not it's worth

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it to you is sort of your call but it looks cool

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