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we've talked about a lot of third-party Pro controllers for the Nintendo switch and there are a lot of them out there but something we haven't talked about yet is third-party controller alternatives for joy cards this is the wireless retractable game controller from I have no idea I pronounce this a pitcher época I I'm not sure but the point is this is a retractable controller kind of similar designed to the game vice which was definitely originally primarily meant for phones and tablets but it's been redacted to also work as a Bluetooth controller for the switch now sending this guy up looks pretty easy so let's go ahead and give it a shot right now first before you actually put the switch inside of the controller vise thing you need to add these little rubber stoppers to actually make it fit comfortably without you know messing up the sides of the switch so you're supposed to just kind of lay them in there yeah that's feels pretty good and then like a lot of these other kind of vise controllers all you got to do is kind of just rest it in there and then you should be able to just pull it and there we go you can see like how the rubbers kind of just filling that spot it's kind of a cheap solution but it's a really smart cheap solution that makes sense it's just don't lose those please okay so now that we've got this at least set up physically let's go ahead and get into a game and try to actually make it run okay go to controller setup and then on the controller I'm supposed to hit and hold the home button for a while and that'll put it into sinking mode oh wait I got to put it in switch mode too so on the side here there's the different modes you can put this guy in and it's not words it's just logos for all the popular stuff so there's even a little switch logo right here just kind of put it to that okay let's try and then we sit here and wait a while until something happens oh there it is okay actually works perfectly fine so far that's kind of cool that wasn't that difficult to set up something I am noticing right away though is that on the controls for this it's actually the Xbox one configuration where the a and the B and the X and the y are flipped versus how they are on the switch and it looks like the switch is actually reading those buttons as what they say they are so it's not the kind of thing where B is now a and a is now B it's actually just that the positions are different but the buttons are right so if you're really used to not looking at the buttons and just kind of feeling out like oh yeah the bottom button does this top one does this it won't work for this you need to actually flip in your head what does what the probably said I'm more confusing than it meant to be I will say to that while there certainly is like a cheaper element to this thing in general just the field of plastic and button quality and everything the grip design is definitely more comfortable than using an actual switch I mean it's kind of one of the big downsides it's using the switch in handheld mode is that it's definitely not designed to be comfortable for most people because it doesn't have any kind of grip shape it's just a thin droidcon design which doesn't work well over time this is a lot more comfortable right out of the gate which I do like I'm curious about something too so let's see so we got it synced up what happens I put the switch to sleep is this guy gonna stay on it's gonna stay connected okay so it turned off and then can I use it to turn the switch back on okay so I put the switch to sleep and it looks like the controller just completely shut off so I can't turn the switch back on using it let's okay let's turn this back on manually and see if it at least like resyncs right away nope I think I have to manually sync this guy every single time I turn the switch on which depending on how you use your switch may or may not be super annoying because at least for me personally when I'm using my switch and handheld mode I am constantly putting it to sleep for just little bits of time like every time I'm taking a break from a game I don't even use the game's pause screen I just put it to sleep immediately something like this where it disconnects every time you do that you're gonna notice that you're gonna realize how much you put your switch to sleep because you have to deal with this every time that wasn't too bad though cuz at least games will auto prompt you with the control screen something else that I noticed and the instructions do cover like how to handle this this has almost just as many buttons as a pair of joy' cons I mean there's a couple things that are replaced like you don't have a plus and minus button video starting to select that do the same thing but the one button you're short on is you don't have a button that would do screen capture and the way they solve that on this is the home button on it pressing it really quickly to screen capture holding it for like a split second will do the actual home maneuver but that's also weird because the switch also has controls we're holding the home button so you have to time it to where you don't hold it super long or else have like the overlay options come up but you need to hold it longer than just a simple press because otherwise just gonna take a screen capture every time you use it it's a little annoying I kind of wish they just didn't support screen capture at all and the home button worked like a home button because at the end of the day if there's any button you can be missing on joy calms its screen capture hi I need everything else about this thing works pretty well so far in practice I mean it's comfortable the buttons aren't the best but it's getting the job done just fine and I can doubly see that as far as just the grip design alone goes I could actually really play this a lot longer than using joi cons there's a lot of other benefits I get from using joi cons but this is definitely a lot more comfortable by the way if you're wondering how we got our hands on a white switch this is actually a skin that was made by today's sponsor D brand they made a whole bunch of swish skins that don't damage your system they can work on the switch itself on joi cons and then you have dock designs as well you can get them in a bunch different colors or just a nice clean crisp white which looks awesome make sure to check out the link down below you know after spending some time with this thing I gotta say this is actually a lot better than I first thought it was going to be I mean it's still not a great controller the sticks are very loose the buttons aren't that great the placement could be a little better but there are some merits to this design because one does certainly bulk up the overall size and shape of the switch this is a much more comfortable controller than using the joi cons you know I even switched back afterwards and I have to say that while the joi cons definitely add better buttons and everything I immediately noticed the difference in just how much more uncomfortable those small controllers are on the side because it's just such a thin piece of plastic compared to the sory of an actual proper grip this is a lot more comfortable the fact that it disconnects whenever you shut off the switch is a little annoying but it's actually not as big of a deal as I first thought it was going to be because as long as you don't have any other controllers connected to the switch every time you start it back up it's going to prompt you to connect to controller we're all you have to do is once again sync this guy to it so it's a little annoying but not nearly as bad as you might think at first so yeah it's actually a pretty good control overall I don't think I would recommend it still for anybody that wants to do any kind of intense serious gaming is once again the buttons and sticks everything or just not but it's such an improvement for comfort that if you just want to be able to kind of play some more laid-back games from very long periods of time this is gonna be much better on your hands and it really considers provoking the thought of what Nintendo could learn from this there's been rumor before that Nintendo is thought about doing other droidcon designs aside from ones we already have and if that's true this should be one of the first things they attempt because yeah the larger size impacts the portability a little bit but that's why it's alternative option not the one the system comes with but having a larger more comfortable controller and having all the benefits of an actual first party Nintendo design where you have the better buttons and all the extra functionalities and you know buttons here that are flipped would just be awesome it would make the portal blow out of a switch even better