what's going on everyone austin john place here and today we're going to be talking about
a nintendo switch pro controller with paddles now it's been a hot minute since i've reviewed
any sort of controller for the nintendo switch mostly because i mean i've done many videos when
the nintendo switch was in its infancy i came to the conclusion that the nintendo switch pro
controller the official one this one is a custom paint shop by colorware is hands down just the
best controller it feels good amazing battery life it has a beautiful hand grip the button
functionality is amazing the shoulder buttons are clicky everything you want in the controller
already exists in the pro controller but then powerade announced that they were going to be
making the fusion this is also an enormous box like if you were to buy a headset that's the size
of this box compared to a pro controller for scale it's it caught me off guard by how big it was
that's what she said upon opening it up you get this enormous case for your controller which is
adorable and there was documentation in the bottom i took that out inside of the case there's a few
things in here including the swappable faceplates i've only seen or well reviewed one other nintendo
switch pro controller sort of model that did have swappable faceplates and it was by pdp and it was
sort of a budget controller that i didn't really recommend because there was a very high standoff
for the buttons the actuation points weren't good there were several issues with it in it
being a swappable faceplate controller and my vast collection of third-party controllers i don't in
fact i only have one powerade controller left and that's their wireless one roller it comes in just
below the price of the pro controller i think it's like 50 as opposed to the pro controller which
is 70. and it has these two programmable buttons down here right and this controller takes the idea
to a whole nother level and i had the face off and my problem with the face off is that the face
plate made all the buttons just really really high so they all had very high actuation points
and also when you're taking it off it feels like you're ripping the plastic away this
is a magnetic face plate you just peel it away and then you just pop this on
simple as that for ability to see it on camera i'm going to be continuing with the white face plate
and the buttons aren't that high in fact if we were to compare the standoff of the buttons on
the switch pro controller to this controller with the face plate on it's pretty much exactly
the same in fact i think the buttons themselves are the exact same size maybe slightly smaller
the minus plus screenshot and home buttons are slightly raised compared to the pro controller
the d-pad feels magnificent it's not as like tactile like you're not going to hear anything
when you're pressing down instead it i don't know it feels amazing there isn't any gooeyness to it
okay so get that out of your head it's it's clicky it you know that you're pushing a direction which
feels good and you want that the thumb sticks rest just ever so slightly higher than the regular pro
controller which is a small gripe of mine because i have small hands um the shoulder buttons are
just as clicky as the pro controller except they have this sort of curve off at the end and then
this little lip up here the first thing you notice when picking up this controller is the weight
this has fantastic weight probably just slightly heavier than the pro controller
whether that has to do with these on the back i'm not too sure i have played with the charge that
it came with for a solid 10 hours and it still has not died yet on the back we have a usbc the
sync button and the sync led and on the bottom we have the four ports as well as a headphone jack so
back when it was a whole revolutionary thing i don't think i have that controller anymore back
when it was a whole revolutionary thing that we had a headphone jack coming through the controller
that has this built in so you could be away from the system plug your headphone jack in there and i
don't know if it supports microphone can we look that up real quick it says that it is only an
audio jack it doesn't specify if it's microphone i don't think it's a microphone it's just gonna
be headset hey there it's me again so i was doing my due diligence and i'm in the middle of editing
and i was messing around because i was like you know i should test the headphone functionality
to make sure you know it actually works and also i don't remember any controllers allowing you to do
wireless headsets in fact that's like a whole thing that's like in the firmware that
it may be coming up bluetooth audio so i was like okay well let me figure it out and then i
look at the website and the website specifically lists that it's only in usb mode i'm not exactly
too sure how you define a controller to be usb mode when it's docked but what i did is i put
my switch in airplane mode then used a usbc cable using the default cable that it came with the 10
foot cable going all the way to this controller and then this controller plugged into my headset
this is a astro a40 i think using the trrs being the triple black line and plugging it
in it does not work it doesn't make audio you can hear the audio coming out of here
you can see in the top corner we are in airplane mode so i can't get this audio to work
i've tried a few things i've tried different usbc adapters no idea so it is now me interrupting me
who is interrupting me i did reach out to the power a team and i explained everything that
was going on with this headphone jack situation at the bottom and they came to the conclusion that i
must have a faulty headphone jack because this is a new product they haven't experienced that issue
and they've requested for me to actually send this back to them and of course they're going to send
me another one so supposedly this is supposed to be plug and play like it is with that other
wired controller that i reviewed in the past and you just plug it in and it just works
in my experience for every device that allows you to transfer sound via the usb that's how
it has been so this is why it caught me so off guard that it didn't work properly in addition
i also wanted to look up all the features of the regular pro controller and just ensure that
all of them are in this controller there is rumble but no hd rumble okay there is no supposedly there
is motion control i don't know if it's a better accelerometer or whatever and also there is no
amiibo support if that's a deal breaker for you it's probably not but uh the hd rumble could be
a concern for some people and also when you're charging more than the default pro controller
you should have the things that it comes with there may be some sort of patenting issue for
third-party controllers to actually have hd rumble fully supported on the nintendo switch
or just it costs more money so they don't do it i'm not sure specifically what it is but i
do know that there are some games that require you to feel how much vibration is going through
the controller and that could be an issue using this controller in addition to the case there
is i haven't even wrapped this what is this like a two meter usbc cable yeah that's like two meters
that's that's a long cable probably maybe even a little bit more than two meters that's and it's a
braided k it's a nice cable i might start using this and then also has additional thumb sticks
which i haven't messed with at all oh they're the exact same height the difference is
the ones that it comes with has little grippies on the inside and an indent the indent is similar to
that you would find on the regular pro controller meanwhile this one is sort of a smooth thumb stick
the side is as smooth yeah i know it's actually a little bit smoother than the regular pro
controller but it has that flat grip top i don't know if you have a preference of one or the other
but they give you both they're the exact same height i'm going to continue with the default ones
because i like that grippiness despite the fact that sometimes you get some some some finger crud
in the middle of that you know what i'm talking about now let's talk about the paddles here on the
back i keep wanting to say paddle shifters these paddles they're so sensitive and it feels good
also i normally play like this with one finger on the shoulder buttons and then these two fingers
are going to be the ones that are resting here which i guess optimally if you know you're a pro
gamer or something you would put all four fingers up here and then you would have it for these two
fingers but either way my hands just fall to the location of all these buttons very well so
i don't find it being an issue i think this comes from the fact that i don't play a lot of shooters
i keep just one finger up here for the pack on the back if you don't like it you can remove it
you just there you go lift it off there's even a little cover in here that you can just put on top
locks in place and then boom now it's pretty much just like a regular pro controller but
with a headphone jack so essentially it's that headphone jack for twenty dollars and swappable
faceplates and thumbsticks it really comes down to the fact that they're adding these
paddles on the back it is super easy to program by just holding down this button for three which
puts it into program mode you choose which face plate or shoulder button you would like to program
and then you can assign it to a controller i have not tried mapping plus or minus yet
so these can lift up slightly they're magnetic so they come back down but you can actually remove
them if say for example you only want three or two or even just one back here you can do that and
i actually kind of prefer it this way i'm not trained enough on using the style of controller
yet to actually you know have that finger memory of going between these two different buttons back
here but just having both fingers resting here it works really well for my use case being the
first person shooter that i'm playing which is pokemon snap these just they you just put them
in place and then they rest back in place they are super easy to put in and take out they're
not going to fall out so don't be concerned about that right now i have mine assigned to the
zoom in buttons and then this is my uh shoot button shooting pictures and then this button i'm
using for my turboing so i could just go through a level and i could just hold the controller like
this to just fly through the level which you know it is a specific use case for uh new pokemon snap
and probably not any real shooter games the thing i can't get over is how much it feels
exactly like a switch pro controller and i love this switch pro controller it's my favorite
control i just use it all the time i'm very very rarely ever using the joy cons and of course as
opposed to the joy cons the pro controller doesn't have joy-con drift or anything else so it's not
like we're combating that issue the one pet peeve i have about this is that this is gali what are
they marketed as these are anti-friction rings okay and i don't know what that means but when i
make full actuation from the thumb stick all the way down it makes a click sound
and that is not present on the pro controller
i mean you hear the sound of it hitting the end but this red circle is actually loose so you're
hearing the sound of this also then hitting the face plate and it's higher pitch and it's
louder so i'm afraid that it's going to show up in recordings you're probably not going to be having
that issue if we look at the back you can see that it's this separate ring that's just attached
to the body with uh these little these little standoffs back here i do like that you could
swap between face plates because if uh if you're doing a long gaming session and there's a feeling
of your controller just gets warm to the touch and may cause your hands to sweat you can swap between
faceplates and then you know you're gonna have a slightly cooler to the touch face plate which
may be more pleasurable in the long term the matte black is really nice if you want like a
real matte black controller this is premium it's sort of matte sort of like a satin which is weird
of course you have your gloss accents for the switch logo and such so long story short uh tldr
do i recommend this this is a 99.99 controller so it's a hundred dollars as opposed to this
controller which is seventy dollars thirty dollars more what are we actually getting
we're getting two swappable faceplates we're getting swappable thumbsticks that are smoother
these are quote-unquote alps analog thumbsticks i don't know what that means and magnetic
impulse triggers i am not the person to tell you whether or not this is a better trigger
i know that for a fact that i'm not qualified to tell you that it seems like they have the
same actuation point so going down you're not you don't have to travel further or less
so i don't know if it's any better these feel just as gooey it's literally like power a makes
the pro controller and they just made their own like they came so close to recreating the
pro controller that it's scary down to like the top has the exact same things the bottom has the
headphone jack sorry to sum it up you're getting the faceplates the swappable thumbsticks the four
programmable buttons back here i have not seen anything that says that you can program these to
a turbo let's look over the documentation a little bit more because that could be a selling point for
some people maybe help you pick up some weeds and animal crossing no neither the guide nor the
website say anything about this oh it's a 9 foot 9.8 foot cable there we go so i'm going to assume
these are not turbo buttons you cannot program them to be turbo or anything else they just map
to one of the already existing face or shoulder buttons and of course the headphone jack at the
bottom which for some people that headphone jack may be worth 30 alone you know you can be
away from the system plug in the headphone jack listen on your headphones while playing on a tv
if you're in an environment that maybe you're next to someone who next to a sleeping spouse
or something like that that may be a necessity for you but to have the feel
of the really quality pro controller mixed with that feature that could be enough for some people
the programmable rear buttons i kind of look like a little spider a little spider guy oh
i'm still messing around with this because again this is my first controller that's
ever had these paddles and it may be your first controller ever having these paddles
and it may just be a convenience thing that if you're playing for long sessions instead of finger
fatigue of holding down these or finger fatigue from holding down these if you're doing that
you have the option to swap between this you could program all four of these to be
the aim button and then you know you still have your appropriate fire button so instead of this
finger or say for example you have a handicap that makes it so some of your fingers don't work that
well maybe on your left hand you you know aren't able to hold down these buttons for long periods
of time and these can help support that those are my impressions slash i don't know kind of a review
about the power a fusion pro wireless controller for nintendo switch white slash black
i'm going to leave a non-affiliated link down below to their website if you want to go pick
it up go for it you have a specific use case that one of these features
makes up for the fact that it's additional 30 on top of the pro controller go for it well guys
thank you for checking out my video on the power a nintendo switch fusion pro wireless controller
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