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finally happen for tonight battle royale has come to the switch giving us a way to play the game portably while still having access to actual controllers instead of having to use touchscreen controls I got a mobile phone that's like and if you're playing it on switch or think about playing it on switch we got a list of accessories of a hub maximize your experience and if you haven't checked it out before you should really give it a look we actually I'll link down below it's free to play check it out now of course the big deal about it being on switch is being able to play it in the switches handheld mode and when you're playing the switch in handheld there's two main things you really need to address comfort and battery life first let's talk comfort the switch is a great little handheld but if you're playing for long periods of time it's not really the best shape for your hands it's a very flat back it doesn't really give you a grip at all it doesn't work over long periods of time so you can actually find a lot of cases like this one right here this is a really good cheap example which just wraps around the entire system gives it a little bit of protection but most importantly adds these grip designs to the back of the joy cons are so you have a much more comfortable grip on the overall system and is going to help you play for long periods of time now on the other hand another route you can go instead of focusing on comfort is battery life because there's nothing worse than playing the game getting pretty far and then seeing that little battery light flashing in the corner and this is a little guy we featured a couple times that I really really love this is a battery case for the switch it's fairly small in size so it'll still fit inside of a case but it gives you considerably more battery life when you're playing in handheld mode and if you still want to increase your comfort a little bit since it only covers the main body of the switch itself you can still get a little grip still attached specifically the Joye cons to give you that better more comfortable experience added benefit to this option too is that if you like playing in tabletop mode this is going to give you a better kickstand situation as well instead of using the single kickstand on the back of the switch you get two of them right here so you not only going to get that battery life but a better way to have it set up when you want to play in tabletop now when you're not playing in handheld mode whether that's in docked or tabletop mode there's one very serious issue we need to talk about and that's controllers look I love the droid cons I think these are great little controllers for when you just want to play something and you're relaxing you're lazy or laid-back it's just something you can comfortably hold in each hand and play a game but if you're doing anything that's more serious more competitive and that includes Fortnite these just aren't gonna cut it you need to that's gonna give you a better sense of being able to reach all the different buttons a good long-term comfort and just something that's a better design for intensive gameplay and there's a couple of ways you can improve upon this one of them is getting a comfort grip to put the droid cons into now the switch does come with a Nintendo stock version of the comfort grip but honestly I really don't like that thing I mean it puts the in the right shape but the grips on it are really uncomfortable so if you want a cheap alternative to it I really recommend this one from Powerade at first glance this looks like pretty much the exact same thing - not having Nintendo branding all over it but the important difference is how the grip is designed instead of being this flat hard plastic like the Nintendo one has this guy is a gripped curved design which is made out of a softer rubber Stu has just a little bit of give to it and it's just way more comfortable when you're playing for long periods of time now on the other hand if you're willing to spend a little more money another option is you can grab this pro charging grip from PDP now like the power a one you're getting the revised grip design which is a lot better it doesn't have the same soft rubber which I do kind of miss but it is still a lot more comfortable the really interesting thing about this one though is it also augments the triggers on the droidcon so it gives you a little front bumpers for the front ones and actual proper triggers for zr and ZL which feel a lot better especially for an FPS on top of that this is a full kit so it comes with a couple other extra items one of which is these thumb grips right here which are a really nice improvement then make the thumb sticks just a little larger but more importantly make them a lot grippier now if you want to look into getting some sticks make sure to be a little careful with other ones you might buy because there are a lot of them out there but a big complaint with a lot of them is that on joy cons they get a little too big Tord interferes with being able to press the B button comfortably which you know can be a problem now on top of all that this is a charging grip as well so make sure that your joke ons are always at full power whenever you're not playing you just put it on this little charge base right here and they'll be good to go whenever you want to play before moving on I want to take a second to thank Epic Games the makers of 4 night battle royale for sponsoring today's video like I said earlier for net battery is free to play and is on basically every major system out right now ps4 Xbox one PC Mac mobile and now switch if you hadn't played for night before it's a game that since you in battles have up to a hundred players in PvP you can play by yourself or with friends and duo's or squads there's destructible environments you can build structures it's a bunch of fun like I said it's free so you haven't played it before check out the link we got down below that joke on grips are all well and good and they're a great option if you'll want to spend a lot of money but at the end of the day if you really want to have an advantage playing a competitive game on the switch you need to have a proper controller now of course the official option for this is the switch pro controller which if you already have one great go ahead and use that but honestly it's just kind of okay it's a solid normal traditional controller design it's got all the requisite buttons you need it's a little pricey for what you get in my opinion but it's perfectly okay but there's other options you can go that are either more affordable or are just straight-up better so let's look at some of those first let's talk more affordable now when you're looking at wired controller options for the switch there are a lot of options out there basically every major third-party accessory company has made some kind of wired controller for this switch and my personal favorite out of the options there for a nice cheap one is the one from PDP with the PDP controller you're gonna get a very similar layout to the switch pro controller everything is in basically the same place collecting that switched around is the plus and minus buttons have been swapped with the capture and home buttons which more core gameplay is not a big deal at all the buttons and sticks are all solid quality for being such a cheap controller I really like the change to the triggers which are longer which is a little more comfortable the really nice thing about this controller though is not only is it a more affordable alternative to the switch pro controller but you are also getting some remappable buttons on the back we're gonna give you a couple more options for game play and can be really useful to mapping certain commands such as jump to on top of that the PDP controller comes in a couple different designs this one in particular actually has a removable faceplate which you can put a Mario or Luigi one instead I of course went for the better of the two brothers and put Luigi now going in a much different direction all the controllers that currently exist for the switch are fine they're good but there's a lot of really cool pro controllers out there that are compatible for other systems that would just honestly work better for playing a game like fortnight and the great thing about the switch is that there are a lot of options out there for using other Bluetooth controllers with the switch and one in particular is this 8-bit doe receiver right here this is really simple setup you just plug this into your switches dock and you can use it to sync up with pretty much any other major controller out there so if you're a bigger fan of using a dual shock floor you can use that if you're a big fan of using the Xbox one controller which is personally my usual go-to for just a standard controller design you can use that as well which works really well for FPS games but if you want to go even farther than this you can use the same receiver to work with any kind of Bluetooth controller which is higher quality for instance if you want to use the Xbox lead controller or if you own a scuf controller for ps4 those will work with this setup so if you really want the biggest advantage you can get you can use pro controllers from pretty much any other system as long as they are wireless and Bluetooth and use them for fortnight so there's just a couple of ways that you can enhance your format game on the switch once again if you haven't played the game before it's totally free to play so make sure to check out the link we have down below and I will see you guys later