Gadgetory

the Nintendo switch has been a huge success so it's no surprise that is beginning to inspire a number of other devices like this guy right here the morphus X 300 this is a Android gaming tablet which at first glance you might think is any other tablet out there but where you begin to see the inspiration is with these right here attachable controllers which don't exactly use the same kind of mechanism as the switch but the idea is there now obviously this is not the exact same thing as a switch it doesn't have its own library of games and it's not exactly as easy to use right from the get-go it is mainly primarily a tablet this just kind of adapts some of the elements the switch along with a couple other things too one of the other things that this ink pushes is that it supports naked-eye 3d meaning you don't use any glasses or anything and you're able to view some 3d content and it'll actually look 3d from just the screen itself now on paper this all sounds kind of cool so far and you might be thinking oh this thing must have a lot of power to do all this not really spec wise it's actually weaker than the switch pretty much across the entire board and despite being a larger tablet and screen it's actually basically the same resolution they advertise that it's Oh a million pixels which sounds cool and all but that's just 800 P it's barely better than 720 to the naked eye basically the same thing so with all that on the table let's go ahead and set this guy up to play some games and see what the experience is like while we wait for this guy to start up I will say one thing right away I'm not actually playing any games yet but these controllers are not comfortable at all it's like the kind of general idea of how a joy con works except they're a lot larger and doesn't really have any kind of comfortable grip design to it at all like it kind of goes in a little bit here but you kinda have to weirdly grip it almost like a vise where you can get your thumbs to reach all the buttons and everything so we're running into technical difficulties because I can't even connect to our Wi-Fi because for whatever reason the keyboard does not want to show up great start before we get to any games let's go ahead and try out the 3d stuff on this guy like that Jets really flying at me it's kind of the same ideas like a 3d s where it just adds depth to the screen basically like there's almost two layers it's weird just keeps getting confused I think between which controls to use with the touchscreen and which controls to use of the controllers like it wants to override you think you were just allowed to use both controls at the same time so you can switch between them you know fluidly alright I think I'm an infinite loop of the video not working cuz it'll freak out for a second after hit play and then just goes back to the same stalled screen whose idea was this that was John's there we go alright I got a play but it's just giving me two images side by side it's not actually from me 3d you know let's just play some games first let's check out a game that was one of the ones it's actually from like the morphus store like they have a dedicated store for what games that recommend you play this with so here's some Cartoon Network soccer game so it's currently telling me to put the tablet in landscape which it is it's also playing the music for the game I think it crashed or I think it's just stuck let's try dipper game and let's start with sonic that's the name I know are we so cheap that we didn't buy the add free version of Sonic I can jump but I can't move oh I can't use the stick I have to use the d-pad that's annoying also the stick is like that PlayStation like the PSP style we're just kind of slides around it's not very comfortable all right hooray I'm at least playing a game now that's that's a much this is a significant improvement okay so I mean once you actually get through a lot of layers of things not working at all once you're actually able to get a game to work as simple as Sonic is I mean this works pretty well so far like I said the controllers aren't great but I am successfully moving Sonic and doing things that's step the right direction so another way that the thing is kind of like the switch is that it does support being able to hook up to a TV it just has a mini HDMI at the bottom so if we hook it up it should go to our TV screen let's try that out oh my god it actually works okay I actually didn't I have expected that enough to happen all right let's try it seems a little more weird like there's definitely a delay and that's not it's not like a switch where it's going into a different mode and like runs better it's just taking the same image which is still being shown on this screen and blowing it up on here so it works just just still not great by the way if you're curious about this awesome white and blue switch you've had in the background of today's video this was actually made possible by D brand they've released a whole bunch of Awesome skins you can get for your switch for the doc itself the joy cons or the main body and a number of different colors or in this awesome cool white so obviously trying this guy out didn't go super great and that's just the stuff that we were able to record on camera because some things took a little too long we hit the power button quite a while ago one of the things about this guy that gets really annoying is the fact that well yeah it's kind of cool that it has these attachable and comfortable controllers is the fact that none of them actually come preloaded with any kind of configurations for popular games so instead of buying say a popular Bluetooth controller which might have firmware updates to support certain titles or games that have you know gamepad compatibility game vice where you can hook it on the sides of a tablet and it's designed for specific games this guy just kind of asks you to do all the work yourself so you have to launch this special app close it open a game switch back to the app put controls over it and it's just this whole really convoluted process that there's not actually any explanation for anywhere you just kind of have to figure it out and it wasn't fun and yeah once you're able to actually get anything mapped out it works pretty great for a specific set of games where on-screen controls are that easy to just copy over and do but compared to the ease of using really any other product designed to do this with a pre-existing tablet instead of an all-in-one system like this it just it was a lot of work for it's still not that great of an experience especially when you figure in the cost of this thing like I said overall it is not as powerful as the switch although it does offer the 3d which is cool I mean has all the functionalities to tablet yes it does more things but for $400 spending $100 more than just getting a switch it's yeah it's not great