What's going on boys and girls what's up world Austin John plays here and today
we're gonna be taking a look at a brand new third-party pro controller as it
stands today the Nintendo switch pro controller is by far one of the best
ways to play the Nintendo switch if not the best you know for dock mode and
stuff if you are ballin on a budget and looking for a cheap alternative hate
packages to the Nintendo switch pro controller I present to you the power a
enhanced wireless controller such a catchy name right
so this Nintendo switch pro controller by power a is a little bit different
from the pro controller in that it's missing some of the features but it has
additional features first thing to note is that it's significantly lighter than
the pro controller that's because the pro controller has that giant lithium
ion battery in there and this boy is double-a powered now there's a lot of
negativity about controllers that do require double-a batteries in that you
know it's not easily rechargeable and such but there is a significant
advantage being that it takes a much longer period of time for it to actually
run out of battery also something important to notice that this does
require that your firmware be updated to 6.0 point o or later it's actually a
little little piece of paper that they had in the battery compartment let's go
ahead and sync this bad boy up boom as easy great with the batteries in here
this pro controller it's it's actually very similar in weight compared to the
pro controller from Nintendo there's a few key differences here one there is no
NFC support for amiibos there are motion controllers so you can use it for motion
control say for example for Mario Odyssey and things like that
but it does not have a rumble feature there is no HD Rumble in this pro
controller so that's something that you're not a fan of then you're in luck
also regular your middle fingers lie you're gonna find two additional buttons
right here these bad boys our remappable buttons and you can make
the map to whatever it is that you want so say for example you are playing a
game that requires you to always be on zr and you don't want to have to move
that finger off to hit R you can assign that to are quite easily there's
directions on the back but I rip the box this right here in the middle is the
program button we just need to hold this down for three seconds we get an LED
indicator letting us know that it's ready to go and it's ready to go
it was simple as that the first thing I'm noticing here with this pro
controller is that there's slightly more distance as the Nintendo pro controller
is that this doesn't take as far to go up as opposed to this one which has a
little bit more travel time meaning that you're gonna get a slightly more precise
movement when you move your analog sticks the d-pad is very firm it's also
where the noticing that the buttons on here are actually a little bit more
predominant than I'm used to and the ZL and Zr buttons they have a
very different actuation point they're not nearly as clicky as the pro
controller and they have a little bit more travel time before they actually
initiate so this Powerade enhanced wireless controller actually goes for
$45 forty four dollars and eighty eight cents on Amazon because right now it's
presale and it releases on Halloween however right now it's available in
stores that target which is extra where I bought mine for five dollars more
expensive so it's the full MSRP of $49.99 but you get it immediately as
opposed to Amazon you have to wait to the end of the month to Halloween and
then you could get it there is a variety of colors that it comes in from black
and red red and black a Mario theme and a Zelda theme so pick whichever one you
like I actually just needed a white pro controller and with the red accents it's
great so I'm actually a big fan of this this is probably gonna be one that I'm
gonna use for you know a third or fourth player whenever I have friends come over
to play and yeah great time so guys this is going to
be your cheap Nintendo switch pro controller alternative the power a
enhanced pro controller let me know what you think about this leave a comment
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