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what's up gasps its Lou from unbox therapy this is a very quick comparison because you asked for it it's the Xbox 360 chat pad up against the ps3 keypad now this is kind of a funny comparison because you know they're not really competing products but it is interesting to see how each manufacturer has tackled the concept of text-entry on their consoles I do have to say that I like typing on the 360 chat pad because the buttons are a little bit larger and I like the location of the keyboard being below rather than above but there is a major trade-off this solution here is quite hefty quite chubby it's a lot heavier than the PlayStation solution and I think a lot of that has to do with the Xbox 360 controller being a little bit heavier to begin with now you have chat pass-through on the bottom of this one because obviously the Xbox 360 system uses on controller chat functionality and as I mentioned before the unit is using the onboard batteries I just have a couple of Duracell double a's and they're got to get some rechargeables but we'll wait and see exactly which one has better battery life but as as i said before this is going to rely on your controllers battery unlike the sony solution which isn't now the sony solution is very light light in comparison to the other one but it puts the keyboard up in this funky location up above and the keys are substantially smaller so there's your trade-off you can go for thin and light but smaller keys or big chunky and bigger ones that's usually the way it goes isn't it I don't mind typing on it I mean it's effective it's obviously way better than the on-screen keyboard some people have mentioned that getting to your shoulder buttons is affected but I don't really feel that it's okay for me and again the main focus here is that this device is actually usable off of the controller because it has its own battery so if you pull it off of here and take a look at it it can completely function this way you could actually keep it beside the controller if you really wanted to and it just sort of mechanically clips on there but there is no actual interaction between the controller and this device it charges on its own as I just pointed out it's got that mini USB port along the top now that might be a headache for you because now it's to devices to charge instead of one but a game that's preference that may actually be better for you now the keyboard itself is typable but as I mentioned if you have larger larger sized hands you probably would prefer something a little bigger if it was even possible on a controller like this and once it clips on here a number of buttons are remapped mechanically below - like the power button start select and whatnot now this is a special function that the Sony has that the Xbox version doesn't is the whole unit is a trackpad itself now the results of using this are hit and miss I mean it's not very smooth it's not like a laptop trackpad as you'd imagine you're going over top of the keys the keys themselves become the trackpad so it's kind of an afterthought I think it works in the web browser but it is in the prettiest thing so anyway guys each one of these devices has its benefits and drawbacks and it's kind of a funny comparison because it's not like you really have a choice whichever console you have you have to deal with The Associated accessory but as I mentioned earlier in the video it is interesting to see how each manufacturer tackled the concept of text-entry on their console I'm going to give you guys a closer look at each of the keyboards as you can see there are a number of special function keys on each these keys on the Xbox version are a little bit larger than what you get on the PlayStation version of course these ones are round so they're a little bit smaller and you've also got a number of special characters on this one I think a few more so if you want to mess with people and put some crazy characters in your username you could definitely go for it anyway guys if you like this content and hopefully you can like and favorite this video as I've said before it helps me out a bunch and as always stick around the channel for new content all the time thanks for watching thanks for supporting me you guys make this possible I'll see you around later