Gadgetory

one of the really cool things about the switch is just the large number of durin accessories you can design for it's so adaptable that allows for a huge range of different weird things and I especially love any of them that allow you to actually connect and use joy cons which brings us to today's piece the switch keyboard now you might be wondering why does this exist for the switch I mean there's not exactly a lot of games out there that use a keyboard right true at least in the u.s. I mean as far as using keyboard most games go there's only very specific situations you have to use one and it most something like naming your character in Skyrim otherwise uses for a keyboard are pretty limited right now especially it's been really have any kind of full online system for chat or anything which is why this actually isn't available in the US at all it's currently exclusive to Japan but it was pretty easy to import and the reasons available in Japan is because there's a single mo available on the switch only in Japan which is Dragon Quest 10 and for a game like that it makes a lot of sense to have a keyboard available because yeah you can adapt it to being able to play comfortably and do things like combat and that'll make sense but as soon as you want a chatty in game not having a keyboard is basically garbage and then I started and this is even the first ones I actually made for add rehnquist has been out for some time in Japan now and they had another one from Horry release that was just a regular keyboard that would hook into the switch but what's interesting on this one is it comes for his company called cyber gadget and as you can see it actually attaches the joy counts onto it as well it is still a wired keyboard setup but it creates something that fits a little more I think with the overall theme of how the switch is designed and in fact for Nintendo this isn't even an idea that is unique to the switch this is something that Nintendo has done and licensed before back in 2002 on the GameCube back when fantasy star 1 & 2 came out once again and most situation keyboards are her little handy they released an ascii controller that was kind of ridiculous looking because here you know it's a standalone keyboard that has slots for the droid constituent a ch2 back then it was just a gamecube controller with a full keyboard to put in the middle of it and it was stretched out and just this insane looking piece of tech now as I said this is something that we can't actually fully make use of in the US yet because there's not any games that really require it but that doesn't mean you can't use it at all this will hook up to a u.s. switch and work just fine for the few and very limited applications where will come up so let's check it out by the way if you're wondering what joy Kahn's we have attached to the keyboard these are actually skin joy Kahn's made by today's sponsor Dee brand they have a whole bunch of in switch skins that are safe to use on the dock on the switch itself and of course joy cause you can get them in seven different colors or in white or a couple different black options the one we're using right now is my personal favorite the carbon fibers if you're interested checking them out and wanna grab some check out the link down below so obviously this isn't gonna be the most in-depth test in the world I'm just going to find a place where I need to enter text and try using the keyboard instead of the pop-up one on the switch so I'm just gonna go to my user settings and miss with my name and yeah that's a working keyboard that was easy but having it in this configuration actually set up the switch does kind of just give me some ideas right away about well this is not exactly something useful just yet for any games in the US down the line once this is useful there's a lot of thoughts I have just using this keyboard first off I really wish it had a longer cable because right now we're actually using a USB extension this is everything you have right now which if you're using your switch in some kind of dock to desk setup that can make sense but for any kind of living room design this is just not nearly enough for use which is really annoying the other thing too that really jumps out of me is that look using a controller like this is obviously not the most comfortable thing in the world but because it is so similar in design as to just using the switch in portable mode you're kind of already trained to use it rather comfortably like it feels pretty natural just to use this controller this way and hold it in fact it's so close I really wish the keyboard was just a little bit smaller which might make the keys a little too knowingly small but if it was just the same dimensions of the switch you could also then make use of things like different grips or protective cases so you could get that better grip design giving you the balance of having access to the keyboard and having a more comfortable grip on the Joye cons as opposed to using this whole flat design so yeah I mean it looks kind of ridiculous but to be honest this isn't that bad of a setup and really has me thinking more about you know what the switch needs to do to really start making something like this a really viable option for everyone to pick now the obvious answer is of course why does got even exists in the first place mmo's if there's any genre a video game that absolutely needs a keyboard it's animos once again chat is very important but there's a lot more that could apply to the switch where a keyboard could come in handy one of the things we talked about before is the fact that the switch while a great little handheld gaming system is still lacking a lot as far as a multimedia device now normally we're talking about that we're talking about things like movie or music streaming but one of the big things that the switch is also currently lacking on is a proper internet browser now people have found some ways to kind of cheat a little bit and gain access to one that kind of works just not very well but if Nintendo were to eventually actually have a proper browser on the switch access to keyboard would be great because using the onboard screen apartment mode might be okay but as soon as you're in any kind of situation where you're saying you're docked that's not gonna work very well at all and really if you want to go full crazy there's also the idea of what you could do with the interaction between the keyboard and joy' cons as well imagine having games that embrace not only using the joint console controls and using the sticks as an easy way to move and look around but actually embracing the number of options that open up by having keyboard made available and Moe's are an obvious option here but you can even start opening up other crazier genres normally not available on consoles especially handhelds like this like RTS something like let it happen no probably not that's actually really insane I don't think it'll ever happen but it's the kind of thing that I really want in hit it'll look more more into the part of the thing that's really cool about the switch is the wrist it's been taking and I want to see more crazy ideas of how you can incorporate accessories like this into more games