What up? It's your boy Riley back to take another look at kind of a weird product because that's my ammo apparently on this channel
Next we go sponsor this video so we can take a look at the grip con which is both a Nintendo switch controller and
a dock for like five bucks more than the
Standard price of a Nintendo switch dock, which I mean, I'm not good at math, but if I was
If I was doing some then it would feel good that right there
This thing has apparently got hall effect joysticks. It has customizable button
Macros in some form and so there's lots to take a look at before we get too deep into the features
Let's just take a look at the actual hardware. It comes with this little box here with extra
Joystick covers on it. Oh, they look like they're bigger. Maybe nice
We got documentation. Well, actually before we look at the documentation look at that
Ooh, I always like a good like a fabric II felt II looking
Feeling thing on tech. It's too often. The tech just like is not homey
I want to feel like I can go to sleep on it and that's not the case with this but
There's a chance most of this stuff is just talking about like oh, these are the Nintendo switch buttons on the like standard Nintendo switch controllers
But whoo, I like those colors, but we also have some extra buttons
Especially on the back look at those. Okay, let's do a little overview quick starts guide safety guidelines
Be safe when gaming. It's important. Listen to your mom in this scenario. That's me. I'm your mom
Obviously on this side, you know joystick minus button d-pad settings button and a
Capture button on this side. We got the plus button
the letter buttons other joystick home button and T
Which is the turbo button which will allow you to you know
Specify any one of these buttons that you want the controller to mash for you in button mashing situations
Which and switch games? We know we know they're there
Okay, when we look at the rest of the controller though things diverge a little bit
Obviously, we got the trigger buttons and shoulder buttons here But we also have the USB-C charging port the HDMI output for when you're in docked mode
It's a switch. So it's gonna output at 1080p not anything super super fancy for now
Nintendo and a USB a port for you know, when you're in docked mode if you want to attach extra wired
Controllers, I'm assuming over here. We got two spaces for game card storage
So the switch itself is going to have the cartridge slot and then you can have two extras
You know if you want to pop and pop if someone challenges you to a duel in the street
You got to be ready now over here are those back buttons. I was talking about and these
Unlike the turbo button, which will just mash stuff on the back these buttons will you can you can set macros
So if you hold it and press some buttons, we'll we'll figure it will show you later down here is the
Button to switch between docked and handheld mode when you have an HDMI connected and down here a kickstand
So it's like it's not just that it's like a dock, you know a fake dock. It's like it's it'll stand up
It'll be fancy. It'll have some class and then of course There's the USB-C port at the bottom there, which is what we're gonna slide the switch into right now
Okay Big moment, okay
This is that feels wrong at a certain level
But it also feels like right like this feel look at this this could be a product that came together
Nintendo it's gonna be fine. It's gonna be okay. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be I know. It's a third-party controller. Oh
Feel good. I Was a joke, but it did feel really nice clicks in dang
I mean, it's like it's the same click as the as the Joy-Cons actually now
I'm curious about how to do I just does it just pop out without you don't have to press a
release button You just slide it out
That is very satisfying it's just working. I mean no set up necessary apparently to get the basic features working here
But what you're supposed to do is go to settings controllers and sensors
Pro controller wired communication. It's already on we're in pro mode already on this channel
Normal mode only normal mode even though I've got the nexico grip con on my side. I
like how meaty The the buttons feel like obviously compared to the original switch
Controller buttons. They're very clicky, you know, it's like a small little thing, you know for for a handheld console
They did pretty good, but this button is like it's got some weight to it
There's longer travel distance and there appears to be a pretty solid
Tactile bump still like there's a I've used some Xbox controllers that feel kind of mushy like it's a big button
It's got some travel. It feels like you're pressing something significant, but it doesn't really have that to kind of bump to it
This has a very satisfying Bump and I think all of the buttons do more or less
mmm, I Can immediately tell that this is a hall effect joystick
What do you huh? What's that? I
Love this game So the vibration is I think pretty strong
I actually like it, but thankfully nexico has a feature where you can adjust the intensity of the vibration
So and that's through the controller not through Nintendo's software. So that's pretty cool
It's so weird in games like this that the jump and shoot are different buttons, right?
Like but like I want to jump and shoot and you have to you have to do this
Maybe I've just you know, I grew up as a console gamer and I've been PC gaming for so long now that the idea of
Only using this Thankfully nexico has thought about people like me who are frustrated by that so that we have that we have the macro buttons
We're gonna map them. I'm gonna map jump to this one and
Maybe on this one, I'll map like four different buttons. We'll see we got to hit the setting button for two seconds until an LED shows up
Okay, all right now that LED is shining bright and
I'm going to press the button you want to map
for me, that's that and then I press the back button and
And Now it's solid white the solid white means that it's set successfully every time you press this key
An angel gets its wings Okay, so I mapped jump and now I can jump and shoot like look at this
No one could stop me if I'm at the same time. So
From now on if I'm jumping it's cuz I'm pressing this bad boy
I'm not pressing B. I'm not even gonna touch be ever again
Even when I go home Okay, I'm gonna map the other button to this like aim and fire
Combo for the secondary weapon. All right, so let's enter mapping mode again
With the setting button. It's blinking. I have to have the timing right
I have to hold the button until it's charged and then fire boom
boom Okay, so now I'm gonna map that to this one. So when I press that right button
It does it
I'm probably the best Samus ever Now I'm gonna go beat the boss like okay. Yes, normally I wouldn't be prepared, but I got Hall effect joysticks
We're gonna map a turbo button before I go into the boss just so I'm prepared
But apparently I didn't know this you could set the you can set the turbo button to automate
Button mashing on one of these buttons, but you can also adjust the speed you can either activate it 12 times per second
Which is the default or 20 times per second
Okay, I'm good. It's gonna be fire. So hold this and
Then press this Hopefully that worked. We'll see. Oh
Here we go. Okay. Okay. Ah Boom boom. Oh, I'm scared. I'm scared. I don't know how to play this game. Oh gosh
Yeah, no, this is a bad idea. Oh use the turbo button turbo. Oh, it didn't work
Got him. Okay, so we figured it out if you hold the button and press turbo
You're gonna enter semi-auto mode. So by holding them down the button
It's not it's as if I'm not holding it down I'm just pressing it over and over and over again, and I can start and stop that if I
Hold the button and press turbo again It'll enter the second mode, which is full auto. That's just firing all the time
You're firing you're a firing your laser and you don't want to do anything else
Which in this case is what I want to do. So I'm going up to see the boss one more time. Let's go. Oh, here we go
Oh, he's he's he's done. He's done. He's done man. You're over. It's over fire. Oh
Jump jump jump jump jump
And I think that means I won
Thanks next ago He helped a little
Noob like me get to the championships now the last thing I just wanted to show here was that this thing has gyro control like a
regular You know Nintendo controller, so
There's that as well, I mean that probably looks horrible for you the viewer and you know, I would never recommend
Using this form of still see what hold on a second. What?
How does this? This is why you should never use it. I wouldn't use it, but the point is that it's there
So if you ever need to give your switch to your grandma to
distract her
The gyro control is there like in a regular Nintendo controller
Hey one day older Riley here back on set because we realized
We didn't actually test out the dock Functionality so we're gonna do that right now. Okay, so just like a regular dock. You have to plug into power
and then your HDMI going to your TV and
And we're there So I mean it's a it's a dock and like I said you can press that button on the back to switch between the TV and
The console pretty quick switching from the TV to the console and it takes a bit more time switching from the console back to the
TV, but that's because it has to work harder to push the the frames uphill
That's one issue if you got a thick HDMI cable, then you might have some issues having it
Want to stay and there we go. Oh perfect Mexico thought of that
So yeah, if you want the traditional dock experience you can set it down there and use another controller or you know
You can still use this controller as well If you want to play with other people and project to a to a TV
So and this is what playing switch looks like just you know
Cool. There's the dock functionality
BAM Well overall I'm pretty happy with the experience I had with this thing. It's 65 bucks
Again five dollars more than the Nintendo dock, but you get like a whole controller with it with extra features
It comes in a couple of colors actually I forgot to say There's this purple one and this blue one and they all have this sort of like you know that kind of I don't know if
Probably can't legally call it atomic Purple or whatever, but it's you know, it's that's it's that see-through
Design that has come back into style and thank goodness
so if you have other aesthetic sensibilities than just
Minimalist black option then those are there for you. I
Didn't even put the the little extra things on and hey, you know what they kind of look like tires
Look at that. So if you want to play Mario Kart with those it might make it better
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