Enjoy LUXURY Travel With These Nintendo Switch Accessories!

foreign welcome to ride or die where we like to talk about all things travel theme parks and having fun today we're going to be talking about traveling with your Nintendo switch not just traveling with your Nintendo switch but luxury traveling with your Nintendo switch and I'll explain more what I mean about that as we continue forward the Nintendo switch I think is my favorite console maybe of all time I've been a gamer specifically a Nintendo gamer most of my life starting with the NES the Nintendo switch has everything that I love and as someone that travels a fair amount I'm on the road about two to three months out of the year I love to bring my switch with me and I love to bring more than just the switch itself I like to have a deluxe experience when I'm on the road because it's a little bit of home here when I'm playing my Nintendo switch console so in addition to the switch itself I purchased a bunch of different items I'm going to kind of go over them with you explain how I use them how I think they improve my experience when I'm traveling we're going to talk our way through what some of them do and and you know you can maybe decide whether you think they're a good fit for you or not to start off with we have the very standard case this case will hold pretty much just the console itself and then also a few little games it has a little kind of a game holder in here these are very common you're going to see these all over the place I've even seen these for sale at Five Below they have them at Target I picked up this specific one Amazon Basics because it was in a color that I liked and they're pretty interchangeable there isn't anything about this specific one that makes me say hey this is the one that I have to have other than this color I like the color and that's where it ends this tends to be where my switch lives when I'm traveling and again nothing special about this case just happens to be the one that I like so in addition to the switch itself I like to bring a few other things that really just kind of enhance the experience first and foremost I'm not a big fan of playing like this I know these little joy-cons are great for some people they're not great for me they don't feel great on my hands and my hands tend to kind of cramp up from using them I don't like looking at the little screen so I want to try to improve that experience whenever I can that's going to bring us to the Genki covert dock so this Genki covert doc basically takes the place of the Nintendo switch dock that's that kind of large brick that you have sitting in front of your TV this does the same thing but it does it in an all-in-one kind of plug you have a USBC that goes directly into the switch itself you have an extra USB port and then you have an HDMI and that goes out to the TV or whatever it is that you might want to use it for this in and of itself is also a charger it can be used to charge your phone it may not be the fastest charger that you've ever seen but it will work for that sort of thing so why would I use something like this well let's say that I'm going to a hotel or I'm staying at a relative's house or something like that and I don't want to play my Nintendo switch on its tiny little screen screen well that's where this guy comes in I can bring along my HDMI cable I can bring along the USBC cable that it comes with and before you know it I've got this guy hooked up to the television in addition to that of course it's much smaller it's much smaller than the regular dock is so I'm able to just kind of slip this into a bag and as I said before since it doubles up as a charger it actually saves a lot of space in my luggage overall this is a great buy and I do want to let you know you might read online that there were some concerns about bricking your console whether or not that might cause issues with your console you could read on the Genki website how it is that they addressed what they found were concerns with how the Nintendo switch gets power and they duplicated the existing power setup in the original Nintendo switch charger in this charger so basically this operates and is read by the Nintendo switch which like its own native charges so again no worry of it potentially bricking your console or you know you not suddenly being able to use your Nintendo switch now if you don't want to worry about something like the Genki covert dock you don't want to go to the expense there's always the option of bringing your entire Nintendo switch and its original dock that of course might take up quite a bit more room and that's where something like this comes into play so before I purchased this Genki covert dock I actually would take my entire Nintendo switch with its dock with me when I traveled so this was ideal for car travel primarily this is a pretty big box again Amazon Basics that's the one that I picked not for any other reason than its color I really like this color and you know this will actually house in addition to some stuff that I have in here for right now it will also house things like uh the dock it has a slot for the Nintendo Pro Controller or the switch Pro Controller the switch up front and then some extra storage here for cords and things like that so this is a great solution if you're primarily traveling like to someone's house or uh you know you're not necessarily concerned about space and you don't want to spend a ton of money on additional accessories so this worked really well for me now that I'm primarily flying to the places that I go I tend to to not bring this at all so this is a great solution again if if size and space is not a concern but ever since I got the Genki covert Dock Of course that all went away now this Pro controller case is what I use to cart my switch Pro Controller around in originally I tend to prefer to play with the Nintendo switch Pro Controller however at the the time that I purchased this I was also really into playing Super Smash Brothers and not just playing Super Smash Brothers but playing Smash Brothers with a Nintendo GameCube controller the old school Nintendo GameCube controller so this more flexible case was able to hold either my GameCube controller or my Nintendo switch Pro Controller and in fact I found this even though it's an Xbox controller with no issues so this is a very flexible very versatile controller uh ever since I went a little bit more streamlined with my setup I decided I wanted to save even more space and that's where this Tom talk Nintendo switch Pro controller case came in so this will only hold the Nintendo switch Pro Controller I believe they make some other variations of this that will hold other controllers like the PS5 and things like that but this case is really streamlined it prevents your Nintendo switch Pro Controller sticks from getting kind of moved around or stick drift as they call it happening it slots right in there like that you just close it up and you go like that and you've got exactly the space of the Nintendo switch Pro Controller and nothing more so this is great for my carry-on I really like to kind of slot this down in wherever it will fit and they don't have to worry about it getting activated or the battery is draining or something like that when I do like to bring the uh GameCube controller and I you know I'm really feeling in a Smash Brothers mood for whatever reason I will sometimes bring this Nintendo GameCube controller that I showed you a little bit earlier and I will bring it in this case but in order to play it on the Nintendo switch since it has this old school kind of old style adapter I use this 8-bit dough adapter this 8-bit dough adapter will actually connect directly to the Nintendo GameCube or to a Wii remote if you remember the Wii system it's got connectors for both ends and this allows it to wirelessly interface with the Nintendo switch so I can bring this just this and it will work like a Nintendo switch Pro Controller I don't have access necessarily to the home button the way that I normally would they've moved that to this adapter but this can also be my you know Soul controller when I'm on the road modes that allows me to kind of do both of those things without any hassle when I'm traveling I also like to bring as many games with me as I can and instead of bringing all of the cases and things like that I tend to slot them into this tiny little Game Boy case or I should say Game Boy card holder this will hold let's see 10 games you can of course get these things with many more game slots and take as many games as you want to on the road but again this is a very small package and it's easy to just kind of slip in wherever it will fit in your luggage when I'm gaming I also like to wear headphones I prefer to have my audio coming through in a way that I can clearly and distinctly make everything out so for that reason I like to game with headphones when I game about a year or so ago they put an update out for the Nintendo switch that allows it to natively use Bluetooth headphones if you have a pair of bluetooth headphones you can connect it to the Nintendo switch and you don't have to do anything else the audio will come through to those headphones assuming that they're compatible in all the ways that they need to be compatible and you know just use that as your way of listening to audio however there are a few potential drawbacks to that there is a limited number of controllers that can be connected at any one time I think it's two I could be wrong about that but I have experienced audio interference when doing that and trying to you know play with both Joy cons or or something like that so for that reason I have an additional Bluetooth audio adapter now I actually purchased this before they added the capability for Bluetooth audio so I have used this pretty successfully I'm very happy with it this goes directly into the bottom of the switch it will of course take up the USBC Port so you won't be able to charge while you've got this in I think they probably do sell some that might have some sort of a pass through this one does not this is made by a company called homespot I was able to get it color coordinated again in that color that I really like but you plug this in you press a button it puts it into pairing mode you connect with your Bluetooth headphones and before you know it you're listening to your audio and again this doesn't interfere the way that the Bluetooth chip inside of the Nintendo switch might I should also add that they have a little spacer if you'd like to kind of add a little bit of room between whatever case you happen to be using at the time and the adapter itself this will also by the way plug into the dock of your existing Nintendo switch so you can use it not just in handheld mode but also in docked mode and then the final thing that I really wanted to show you what I think is probably the coolest thing that I have for this entire setup is an entire portable TV so a lot of people maybe are not aware that they have portable monitors available portable monitors have been around for a few years basically this is a monitor that you can take on the go with you and use when you want basically a screen this particular one is a 15.8 inch screen so I'm going to go ahead and open it up and we'll talk a little bit about it so here it is basically uh what I've got here is a cover and that cover magnetizes to the back and voila we have a pop-up screen this pop-up screen takes a mini HDMI connector on this side and this specific one I picked because it also has speakers built into it so it's not just a monitor it is a monitor with speakers the reason I wanted that specifically is when I connect my switch to this display I'm able to hear the sound from my switch out of the speakers it's very nice it's not very loud of course it's pretty you know passable I guess I would say but it does the job and I'm able to use this you know when I'm traveling and I I just kind of want to you know pop out some video games and and have some fun I've even purchased angled adapters and these angled adapters go on to my existing USBC cable my mini HDMI to HDMI cable and they connect to these ports on the side and they allow the cables to run not out the side but behind the display so it's got a very clean look and I'm able to kind of have all my wires tucked away the way that I might want them to be you might be asking yourself why on Earth would you purchase something like this what's the purpose of this well it actually has many purposes I've used this for many things it would not surprise me if I end up showing this in other videos in the future because I think this thing is really versatile first and foremost I use it for my Nintendo switch so there are situations where I am visiting somewhere and I don't have access to a television but I would like to play Nintendo switch and I would like to watch TV so I can pop this out I can connect to my computer and it acts as an extended monitor so I have a second display I can connect it to the switch or or I can even take like a fire stick and connect to it I can connect an Apple TV and watch streaming content directly on this so for all intents and purposes this is a portable television I'm able to take it with me wherever I go and it's extremely extremely light and very thin I just have to pop it in my bag and we're good to go there are a lot of these on the market this is the one that I wound up going with I'll have a link to it in the description down below I would recommend that you do a little bit of research this one's maybe a little bit old at this point maybe two or three years old I'm sure there are other options that are available that might be a little bit more versatile than this one even this one I purchased because the price was right and I wasn't quite sure how I was going to use it but I've wound up being very happy with it after the fact so again do a little bit of research and see if this is going to be the right fit for you if you're thinking about something like this well I think that's going to do it for me and our tour of luxury travel I items for the Nintendo switch I enjoyed getting to talk about all the things that I bought and have a lot of fun with when I'm on the road I might do more of these I also have a steam deck if you like this video please go ahead and click that Thumbs Up Button Please Subscribe it helps the channel it helps us grow and it helps me know that you like videos like this and it helps me to know that I should make maybe things like this in the future so again thanks for hanging out with us it's been a lot of fun I'll talk to you next time

Channel: Ride or Die Travels

Views: 5,954

Keywords: Nintendo Switch, Travel, Accessories, Genki Covert Dock, Portable Monitor, Tomtoc, 8bitdo

Id: oKzo4z84C04

Length: 15min 44sec (944 seconds)

Published: Sat May 13 2023