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we've talked before about using keyboards on the switch but today something a little bit different and takes it a bit of a step farther this is the game serve VX same switch now gamester has made a number of keyboards like this that are paired with mice that are used for PC and mobile but the VX is different in that it actually works on ps3 ps4 Xbox one and the switch now when I say this works on the switch I don't mean it in the same sense that we've talked before with keyboards where you can hook up to the switch and use it for typing which doesn't really a whole lot of use in the u.s. right now there aren't any games that need that this actually Maps itself on your switch and works like a regular controller enabling you to play games with a keyboard and mouse setup now we're going to talk about the full possible ramifications of something like this a little later but for now let's just look at the product itself so this is the left half of a keyboard you can use it just for your left hand and has all the buttons you need along with these four buttons here on the side no wonder these are used for is for adjusting the sensitivity of the mouse for whether you're doing hip shooting or for aiming down sights specifically the idea is this is what it's being used for in first-person shooter games so when you're not holding down the aim button this button here is going to affect how easy it is to look around and move with the mouse whereas if you are holding down lean button these ones doing adjust the sensitivity while you're in that mode meanwhile the mouse side you have all the traditional setups here we have the left and right click a center scroll wheel I can also click down to side buttons which are normally mapped to the front shoulder buttons on the most controllers and then there's also a dpi adjustment back here the build quality on both of these is pretty solid and in fact the keyboard itself actually uses blue mechanical switches so it's giving you that little bit of push back and that very satisfying clickety clack sound now setting this up is very simple it varies a little bit from system to system and the switch in particular is actually one of the easiest ones that you can do all you need to take is the wireless dongle attachment that comes with this plug it into the switch put the keyboard into switch mode and that's it you're done now I've only played with this enough to really make sure that it works that the setup is working properly and that I can use it on the switch let's go ahead and actually do a real test and try it out in fortnight all right so we're in a match before we start dealing with having to survive other players real quick for this setup that I'm using I'm just using the preset key configuration this guy has you can customize it using a separate mobile app but by default the layout actually for the most part makes sense I don't know it's gonna apply to every single game you try but everything I've done so far it works well but of course you can always find tune for personal preference yeah moving the mouse action feels pretty natural it doesn't you don't have the same sense of like actual mouse acceleration because it's just acting like a control stick but yeah that feels not weird now as weird as it should be wow that person is you're really not good you definitely use this guy for a while before feeling really comfortable because even when your brain is like yeah you just have to press like B to pick something up or it's not B it's like X but you see that prompt if you have been using this long enough it's like wait which key is that again but I mean it's all very snappy and responsive I'm playing right now and nothing it doesn't feel like there's any real input lag I have good refined control of just looking around I'm honestly really surprised that this is going something as I did I really expected there to be some kind of more noticeable input lag or I don't know just more confused on part but it's it really works I need to find more people it feels like it I mean there's maybe a tiny tiny bit of input lag but it's pretty minor and honestly that's probably more due to the TV we're using than this okay so I finally died and I'm still not very good at for tonight but the important point here is while I was alive and still playing this felt normal like entirely like if I didn't know that I was on a switch this just felt like a standard keyboard and mouse setup and that any problems I mean I had a few mix ups with my inputs where I would forget which key was bound to which switch input but once kind of just getting that stuff you know just through repetition I just felt like playing normally there wasn't any kind of real input lag or weird issues at all even just looking around and using what the mouse felt fine and even if it develop a stood still adjust it on the fly with these buttons over here like using something like this isn't going to just flat-out make you better at a game because you still need to know how to play properly and have proper awareness and map knowledge but as far as just helping with the straight abuse of aiming moving fire I mean this felt better for sure now of course we can't talk about a product like this without bringing up a pretty big issue that a lot of people have which is the debate of whether or not using something like this a keyboard a mouse for consul is considered cheating in a competitive game I mean if you want to buy this to use on your switch with Skyrim playing single-player great go for it do what you want to do but if you're playing something like Ford Knight is that an unfair advantage and is it technically cheating there are some very heated arguments about this very idea and what it mostly boils down to is the idea of is it just another expensive product that's giving you an advantage like anything else you can get I mean after all people can get advantages by buying nicer headphones using a better monitor or TV using a pro controller instead of a standard one is this just another step in that same kind of logic and after all there are a lot of games out there that are even now supporting cross play if you're playing fortnight on switch but you're going against people on PC that are using keyboards why can't you - where this can get a little dicey though is the fact that you're using keyboard and mouse on a platform that's designed to well honestly handicap players a little bit because they are traditional using controllers oftentimes causal versions of games do have some degree of an assist to help bounce at the fact that a control stick is not as precise as a mouse so if you're playing a console version of a game while still getting the precision of a mouse is that unfair now me personally I do lean towards the idea that if you are using something like this for a online competitive game you're not doing it just for fun you're not doing it in single-player stuff yeah that is a pretty significant advantage in borders on cheating but the circumstances of that are starting to change because once again the whole problem with this isn't that you're using a really good controller it's that you're using a controller that has this kind of precision while still having the benefits of handicaps built into the game for you know traditional controllers so if we hit the point where Morgan's starting to embrace the idea of using a keyboard and mouse and just gets rid of those benefits then something like this is honestly supercool and you're already seeing this start to happen with a lot of other systems I mean Xbox specifically is already running a program where you can use keyboards on the Xbox one and you can use it too for specific games that are designed to allow it to be used right now that is only warframe but that list will supposedly increase with time and to me that's something that's really exciting because I love the idea of being able to embrace using all different kinds of controllers on console not just traditional ones don't game I love using a traditional game pad and I still use it and most the time because I find it to be the most comfortable especially if I just want to play something really laid-back but if I'm doing something competitive why not use something that's more precise tool I mean after all if I'm playing a fighting game I'm gonna use a fight stigma at the time not a game pad why can't that apply to FPS games as well either way this is a really cool little keyboard mouse combo it was super easy to set up it was really easy to switch between using it on the switch versus the ps4 or the Xbox one I think it's a really handy controller it's just whether or not you feel completing in a competitive game single-player awesome pick this thing up multiplayer let us know let me know down below in the comments what do you think is achievement you something like this is it not cheating why let us know see you guys later