Gadgetory

I've talked before numerous times about why I think the switch is a great console one of the main things is its adaptability the entire idea of how you can use it handheld on your TV on a tabletop this is just it is able to fit a number of different play styles and something that's been coming up lately which even gives more credence to this idea is that there's more and more games showing up that are vertical now obviously there's no games right now that are purely your vertical and can only be played that way but a number of titles that were originally say arcade releases like Donkey Kong pac-man Galaga all these games were originally played with an aspect ratio that favored more verticality and so those games that come to the switch give you the option to play in that style and the only downside of this right now is that there's not really a comfortable way to really set this up outside of using a stand that holds the switch by itself in that mode if you want to use it handheld it's not really choice yet or is it there's been a recent really popular Kickstarter which gives people an option to use the switch in a vertical style handheld where it's a grip that holds the switch tablet in a vertical style and has little sliders to put the Joye cons on and the only little awkward about this is because most of the games that offer vertical require you to flip the system this way you end up having to cover the volume and power buttons which is a little long but you still get the headphone jack at least which is important so this is something that's now at least become a Kickstarter that people are really hyped for but we kind of wanted to see if there the way we could do this for ourselves right now so we got our setup going on here in the kind of simplest way we could figure out which is using command strips probably not recommended for long period use and one thing that's a mainly a little confusing is that the switch menu isn't available in verticals so if you're not already in a game this is a little a little weird but now let's go ahead and jump in and check it out so the Namco Museum is probably one of the best examples of a lot of games that offer vertical supports there's a lot of classes on here you can do so store with little Galaga oh man this is it's kind of weird to play in this style because I'm so used to using my switch you know horizontally obviously but at the same time I mean I've spent time as a kid playing Galaga and there's definitely something to having the actual vertical outline for like your bow the screen you're using just as much space it's just different experience seeing it laid out this way pausing as I think of more things to talk about oh no I died I should stop thinking oh god it's actually really cool that they even thought to include this as an option because really how many people would have liked without thinking about it just been like oh yeah I meant sure my switch sideways for a game that makes sense but once you start using it I mean this is definitely for this specific game at least this works out better yeah so it's not obviously using the entire screen for the game still but you Devon would be able to fit this same amount of real estate using it horizontally yeah so this is it's really interesting trying out more games in a handheld style using this vertical set up because it's just giving you a viewpoint that you don't normally get and a guy gives games a different focus this is almost something kind of like a 2ds because you have like a two screen setup for this game in particular or like with pac-man and Galaga it's just vertically focused which is kind of a really cool change of pace now before we tried this idea there was one other thought we had which was to use one of the joy Kahn's still connected to what is currently the bottom of the switch tablet the problem is is that you wouldn't be able to sync a single joique on sideways like that while it's still connected we needed to be simultaneously connected and not connected we want to read it wirelessly which there's just as far as we can tell right now not really a way to rig up but it's also got me thinking what if we could do this just a little crazier before moving on to that craziness though I want to take a moment to shout out deeper in for sponsoring today's video and supplying us with these awesome skins for the switch they got a whole bunch of colors you normally can't get enjoy cons right now this is one of my personal favorite combos the red and white because it gives me this Pokemon Pokemon vibe really awesome if you want you to come out there's link down below so using the switch vertically in a head hub mode is cool and all but why do I need to limit it just to handheld why use it in docked as well upside down yes upside empty right now options upside down okay there we go there it is look it might just be because I'm used to years of playing on traditional displays but there is really something about having this alternative viewpoint like I don't know it just it allows you to design games to the different idea focusing on this kind of sense of verticality instead of the traditional widescreen look I kind of love this set up with like a little and one of our key to feel now with this right just have these set up down here I really like the other morphs which game is embracing the idea of doing this vertical design and I really hope we actually sort of see some tackling of it where maybe there's some games that are just designed from the outset to only support vertical mode because I mean there's a lot of stuff three does then there's already a number of mobile games that important to the switch most of those are horizontal orientations but there's a whole lot of great ones out there that are designed with a vertical in mind and vertical video display is becoming more and more common not just because of games on phones but even more videos I mean IG TV just launched and that entirely favors watching things in vertical like I said earlier one of the big strengths of the switch is its adaptability and I think there's more that it can do than we realize so far I mean yeah you can do TV and a handheld that's cool but I mean we have games doing vertical like this right now and there's even more I mean we're seeing intend to experiment with it we're in Mario Party in handheld mode you can line up two different switch tablets near each other and that creates one larger screen that is amazing and that just shows more cool ideas of how the switch can already give you so many options and there's just even more than Nintendo can explore