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we're gonna be talking about the world's first Nintendo switch controller with
built-in voice control it's almost sad that I'm reporting on this that this is
a technology that's literally built into the PlayStation 4 controller and pretty
sure also the Xbox controller but we have never had an in Nintendo controller
before to that of my knowledge other than if you want to include I don't know
the microphone from Hey You Pikachu Nintendo Life reports pre-orders go live
for the new switch controller with integrated voice chat and audio jack
first of all it's red camo and I love it so this controller comes to us from PDP
they've made a bunch of Nintendo switch controllers before I believe they did
the face off controller okay so they also did the Pikachu GameCube controller
and yes the the face off controller it's a pro controller you plug it in and then
you swap off the faceplates which they're ridiculously cheap like 17 bucks
you could get them at gamestop I believe spawn wave did a teardown of one but
revealed at the beginning of April the new face off deluxe plus audio wired
controller from PDP has an audio jack for an integrated game chat now do keep
in mind this is only for games that support voice chat in the game as
opposed to games like splatoon to where you have to have the Nintendo app in
order for it to actually work this is not a solution to that convoluted thing
remember this monstrosity that they tried selling us that you plug in your
switch and your headset and then also your phone and
then you get voice controls in a game and has like a built-in sound mixer and
it's shaped like a like a-- inkling unfortunately for games like splatoon
you're still going to have to use something like this however games that
have in-game voice chat like fork knife then you're gonna be able to use the
brand-new controller for it so as the previous faceoff controllers
the faceplate is removable and you're able to put it on and off it also looks
like they may have fixed the sticks having that weird texture in the middle
and then not having a texture on the outside and then also really interesting
is there's a small button down here next to the right analog stick for a button
function that I'm assuming and you know what happens when you assume I'm
assuming that makes it so the d-pad switches between d-pad control and voice
control which sounds pretty fantastic I would assume this is going to be a trrs
jack which if you don't know this is a trrs jack it's essentially the headphone
with three lines on it that means that you have left audio right audio and
microphone in it's very common on your earbuds for example if you have it
elevated to having ear pods yet and then when you plug that into your iPhone 4
then it has the three lines on it yes that is a trrs jack one of the biggest
complaints as far as the PDP faceoff controllers is that for some reason they
decided to swap the plus/minus and the screenshot home buttons so when you're
used to moving your finger just to the left of the Y button for the home button
that's now going to be the plus button and vice-versa so you're kind of and
it's gonna take some getting used to also supposedly the travel on these
controllers the buttons are very deep because they do need to go through that
faceplate as opposed to the traditional pro controller which has it like
instantaneous soon as you click down there's barely any travel before the
actuation point but most importantly this is a pioneer in the space of having
an audio jack inside of and no controller it's kind of ridiculous
that this is where we are now that finally someone made a controller with a
headphone jack it's not it's probably not a fantastic controller but for 25
bucks for a pro controller and if you play a game that has supported voice
chat then yeah this may be great for you being able to just plug in the audio
jack yes you do need to have the controller plugged in it is a 10-foot
USB cable so that's nice so you can you know comfortably sit on the couch while
playing a game but if you are playing a game like fork a knife you probably
don't understand about actuation points and you're not enlightened so they won't
bother you at all throw a negotiate it at the fork knife players I'm sorry oh
and then also pretty interesting on the back there's two programmable buttons
back here that's fondly reminiscent of the power a
controllers they have a wireless pro controller it's only like I think 50
bucks it comes in a variety of colors depending on where you buy it but it has
these two programmable buttons on the back that could be anything that you
want as opposed to this I don't know if this is a solid button or what that is
from the screenshots it's a little hard to tell I would assume you know what I
between you assume that there's gonna be a button right there but it's weird that
they don't show it off there are additional faceplate colors being black
camo blue camo purple camo and the red camo that we're seeing pictures of it
seems like this is a very niche product for specifically people who do play
Fortnight now it is important to note that you can plug a trrs cable meaning a
headset into your Nintendo switch and thanks to the Vox V Vox they're the ones
that are behind the in-game voice chat technology for fork knife on the switch
and it's also now available for all games on the Nintendo switch which is
fantastic unfortunately I wasn't able to find a list of games that do currently
support voice chat for the switch however this technology has only been
available as of February for every single game coming out from the Nintendo
switch so maybe we're entering a new era maybe we're entering a new
I'm that voice chat is going to be native for the Nintendo switch you're
gonna be able to plug in a headphone jack or use the controller like this one
that PDP is making they're essentially ahead of the curve here it would be nice
if the official Nintendo switch pro controller had that voice chat support I
don't know if I would want it at the bottom or the top
definitely the bottom or maybe even I don't know if they made some sort of
adapter for the USBC at the top that could transmit the audio wirelessly
that'd be pretty phenomenal you probably cut down on the battery life
significantly for the controller but it's stupid long anyways so guys leave a
comment down below if there's any games that you use Nintendo switch voice chat
for from the actual console itself I believe it's only for tonight but if
there's any other game let me know and if this seems like a promising
controller for you alright guys that's gonna be wrapping up
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