- It's been a while, since a controller has caught my eye,
like the Thrustmaster eSwapX Pro Controller
and maybe I'm just getting caught up
in the Xbox Series X, Series S hype,
but this thing looks pretty freaking sweet.
Compared to their last generation model.
It's got upgraded analog sticks,
which supposedly have better like resistance,
sort of whatever that means.
Better physical resistance,
improved recentering positioning and double the lifespan.
So, we'll get to that in a second,
first things first, you got your quick start guide.
A little thing for their thrust mapper.
So this is their software that allows you to set up
profiles.
You can remap the buttons to the ones on the back
on the fly.
So you're not required to use the software, but hey,
it's an option if he wants it and then of course,
one of the big features of this guy is the modular.
There we go.
Modular analog sticks and the D-pad sort of pieces here.
So what this allows you to do, is set up more like,
there we go, dual shock style, two analog sticks here,
D-pad over here, or...
I mean, I guess if you were like, totally demented,
you could put a deep pad over here
and then two analog sticks over here.
And given that you can actually buy additional modules,
I don't think anything would prevent you from,
tah, tah, tah, tah.
Oh yeah.
Of course, if we're gonna cover a Modular Controller,
we gotta get a module here.
You could even go three analog sticks if you really wanted
to, so this is the SX NXG.
So NXG, I think is Next Gen, mini stick module.
And it comes with, a whole lot of nothing.
While theoretically,
you could get modules with different characteristics.
There's nothing on here that indicates that,
that's the case.
But for whatever reason, this one has a different
part number, than the ones that were included.
I mean, I have seen that before,
where there's different part numbers
for like the replacement one versus the one that comes
with it.
I don't know, I don't understand why that's necessary,
but it seems like that might be the case here.
There you go.
The three analog stick.
It's like having a third nipple.
It's like, there's nothing wrong with it.
It's just not the usual configuration, that's all.
Initial impressions, actually D-pad feels pretty darn good.
Like if I was playing a retro platform or something like
that, I could get very comfortable with this.
I like the ergonomics of the, I dunno...
I dunno what these are called, you know,
jutty boys at the bottom here, actually kind of reminds me
of the dual sense to be perfectly honest with you,
on that subject, know you cannot use it
with the PlayStation 5.
It is Xbox and PC only, but it's of course Xbox Series.
And then also Xbox One, the Xbox One Series as well.
(fire crackling)
But what I will say is that compared to, for example,
I've got a first-generation Elite Controller here
and compared to this,
it is very obviously designed for someone
with longer fingers, bigger hands,
like even with this in the background,
you can see this is a larger controller.
And one of the key features, is these remarkable buttons
on the back here, but to be honest with you,
like look at this.
If I'm holding this in a comfortable position where I can
actually reach the menu buttons on the top,
I can barely reach these ones with my ring fingers.
And my middle fingers are not really able to do much
of anything here.
Like I have to go and put my hands at this unnatural angle
in order to reach these.
So, unless you've got longer hands,
I don't think you're gonna be finding those that useful,
as for the field of the rest of the buttons.
ABXY really nice.
Actually, you can really hear that sound,
really like the feel of those switches, easy to press.
Nice and tactile.
I'd say the presses on the analog sticks are normal,
nothing really stands out to me about them.
Wow.
(pads clattering)
Those have to be among the loudest shoulder buttons
I have ever heard.
All right, so the triggers on the back,
they've actually got two different modes.
So you can either, there you go,
flip this switch right here and put it in like kind
of a hair trigger mode or you can flip it back
to the regular position and unlock the full travel.
The idea here being that if you're playing a shooter
or something like that, you want a shorter travel
so that it can respond more quickly
and bounce back more quickly.
And if you're playing a racing game,
then you wanna unlock the full travel for finer control
of the throttle.
In practice I'm not sure if I feel like it makes much
of a difference immediately, but we'll see,
we're gonna fire up some games here.
Before we do that though,
I should probably have a look at the rest of the accessories
that are included in the package.
We've got these little convex joystick toppers.
The quality of them feels really nice.
So you just thread the old ones off.
There's actually what looks like a rubber O-ring to keep it
from accidentally slipping off while you're playing,
with sort of act as kind of a threadlocker.
I don't think that I'm that into the convex top.
It's got the same, really nice feeling rubberized grip,
something I thought was interesting is they don't provide
you another one of these convex tops, when you buy
a new module.
So it only comes with the concave one that's the default.
So what that means is if these are actually your preference,
you're probably gonna have to buy them separately.
Okay, they are suitably adequate carrying bag.
There's a Phillips head screwdriver with a poky thing,
oh, interesting I think I figured this out.
So you put that in there and pop up the module.
And then if you wanted to swap out, say for example,
oops, you gotta have lefty loosey, there you go.
You want to swap out a trigger,
then you could do that as well.
Those are swappable too, neat.
This is why it's always fun to unboxings,
when you haven't actually like, done any research
on the product, I get to discover the features with you.
Okay, well, that's cool.
Personally I would like something more grippy here.
So, maybe that's an accessory that they sell.
My Lord, this thing is expensive.
Hot diggity definitely feels premium.
Like it's...
This is a first-gen Elite Controller by the way,
but it definitely feels more rigid in spite of being larger,
but wow, whew.
It ain't cheap and it's not even wireless.
That's a funny one to me.
Like what year is it?
Nice long cable, I guess.
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Let's go ahead and connect the controller here.
If it's shtick is gonna be that you can change the color
of stuff, then I guess we might as well do it.
You know, this would also be a good opportunity
to put to the test just how easy it is.
Does one of my kids wanna come help me for a minute.
I need you guys to help me pick which color of buttons
we wanna put on the controller.
Okay, apparently we're going with blue.
(controller clanking)
There you go.
Okay.
That was it.
We swapped the whole thing out, to a blue themed one now,
thank you, darlings.
See you later.
- Bye, bye.
- Loaded up a couple of games here,
to at least try out and see how it goes.
Lets start with some Doom Eternal.
So, we're gonna try out the shooter trigger mode here.
I can definitely feel a little of the designed for larger
mitts ness, I wasn't really expecting it but,
oh, you know what?
I wonder if part of the problem is just that,
I'm more accustomed to the traditional Xbox.
Okay, that definitely helps.
I mean, it's cool that you can just swap that quickly.
Like if I'm playing, you know,
old school platform game or something like that
and I'm like, yeah, I really want like a nice
D-pad right here, instead of having to reach over here
for it.
Pretty sweet, oh, wow.
I didn't even notice this before, volume control,
mic button and okay, you've got a couple
of profile buttons down here,
so that's pretty sweet, as well as the map button.
So this allows you to remap these without even actually
using the Thrustmaster software.
One thing I would definitely use the software to adjust,
is the dead zone.
So right now it's a little bit large for me.
You can see, I can move this a fair bit
without anything actually happening.
I prefer dead zones to be as small as humanly possible.
Weird, when I'm in reverse, the rumble feels great,
but then, feels really cheap on the forward.
I have no idea if that's just my unit,
but it really doesn't feel that great.
When I break and go in reverse, it feels great.
Like really deep and then it's just kind of like,
on the gas.
Oops, yeah, I just suck at racing games,
feels great other than that rumble issue, if I were you
I would check out some other reviews and see if they've had
the same problem, before pulling the trigger so to speak.
Oops, oops, oops.
Ooh, see you later.
Pretty good.
Customizable, definitely feels quality.
The wire's a bit of a bummer and so is the price.
So whether or not it's worth it to you is sort of your call,
but it looks cool.
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