- This weekend I'll be
at PAX East in Boston and on Friday I'm gonna
be doing a signing at noon with Wood, he'll be there too. So come on, check it out
at the Screen Wave booth. (instrumental music) When the Switch was first
revealed all the way back in 2016, it took less than a day
for fans to theorize what different Joy-Con
attachments might look like. Of course, the first thing
that was on everybody's mind were Joy-Con that was shaped
like old Nintendo controller. Instead, we got all this. The closest thing we
got to New Style Joy-Con were Hori split pads and
more Hori split pads, but you can't say that off
brand manufacturers didn't try. There were some GameCube Joy-Con that I made a video about a few years ago, but those weren't great and
didn't really deviate that much from the original Joy-Con design, just the base button layout. Last year there was another
GameCube style Joy-Con that popped up, that people kept asking me to make a video about, but I didn't because there was nothing
special about those. The button layout wasn't even
a GameCube button layout. It was a complete waste. After six years of the
Nintendo Switch's life, somebody finally made
GameCube style Joy-Con for the Switch. No, not those. Those are Shank mods. That was three years ago. This you can actually buy. This is by NYXI and you
can only purchase them from their website. I purchased them back in January
and only just got them now, so it took a long time. Also, it cost $70 plus $15
shipping so they're not cheap. It also looks absolutely ridiculous. It's kind of cool to finally
have GameCube style Joy-Cons that you can grip in handheld mode. This is perfect for exactly one game, but it's a game many of you could have a hundreds of hours in. It doesn't exactly bring
back the retro feel of the original GameCube controller. It is significantly
bigger for some reason. It also has some other
changes, some really cool, but the whole concept is really cool, but there are some changes
that are questionable, maybe a lot that are questionable. (bright music) (bright music ends) (bright music continues) (bright music ends) (bright music continues) I kind of like the
technology going on here. It shows up on the Switch
itself, like a Joy-Con, so that means you'll be able to use the button remapping
feature of the Switch OS, just like a Joy-Con would. This also means the home
button will wake the system, which is a very welcome feature missing in a lot of third party controllers. Contrary to some concerns, the Switch also charges the Joy-Con. These USB-C ports on the bottom are just for firmware updates. Aside from it looking quite
ridiculous in practice, I do have a problem with these Joy-Con. They are massive and I'm
somebody with pretty big hands, so a big controller shouldn't
really be a problem for me, but these feel really big. They are way, way bigger than an actual GameCube controller. I'm not sure why they did this. They already had to extend the
top and bottom of the design to fit a Joy-Con rail. Look, even the A button
is significantly bigger. It honestly feels mostly fine. It's only a problem when
reaching for the C Stick, which is just a full
size thumbs stick now, but it's not in a great spot. It takes a wide reach to grasp it. This is specifically a
problem for Smash Brothers where I like to flick the C-stick and that game is what this
controller should be best for. I guess you can use these
for Super Mario Sunshine, one of the only GameCube
games on the Switch, if you were lucky enough to
get the 3D All Stars collection when it was available for a limited time, for some reason I just
checked the Amazon listing and it just finally now
started to skyrocket in price, but this GameCube controller
doesn't have analog triggers. It's just buttons. Very nice feeling clicky buttons,
but they're just buttons. So that means you can't
control flood like you would on an actual GameCube controller which is a little sad,
but I guess it's fine. The Nintendo Switch controllers
don't have analog triggers. I think the GameCube
controller is the only one, so most other games don't
use Analog Triggers anyway. So really Super Mario
Sunshine and Smash Brothers are the only games where you
would use analog triggers at all. Maybe you wanna use
these for Metroid Prime for the nostalgia, but the analog triggers aren't gonna do anything there. They're just gonna work
like regular buttons, but this controller does
have motion controls, which work great. It does feel really
weird to be waving around half of a GameCube controller. It's also extremely uncomfortable reaching for that right thumbs stick while holding the controller
with just one hand. For a novelty product,
it's packed with features. There's the two turbo
buttons on the bottom, so you can turbo any button on the fly. You can also spam press a
button, which would work great on my still running OLED Switch project. We're at over 12,000 hours
now and still counting. There are also buttons on the back, which can be programmed
with these function buttons on the front. This controller also allows macros, so you can program these back buttons to perform a string of button presses, which is usually a huge deal for me. I think that's an awesome feature with a lot of implementations. Imagine programming a perfect combo in Smash Brothers through just one button or imagine programming a
whole Mario Maker level through just one button. Well, the problem is you
can only program the macro to one side of the controller, so the right button is only
gonna be able to program the right buttons on the
controller and the left side's only gonna be able to
program the left button. So that means your right macro isn't gonna be able to
use the thumbs stick and your left macro isn't
gonna be able to use the face buttons. That sounds pretty useless to me. So you'll only really get half a macro. You can try to like program
both the macros at the same time and press them both at the same time, but that's a lot harder than it sounds. It makes this feature a lot less useful. If you put aside all of those features, you're just getting a
regular old controller, everything works just fine. What you're getting is just the novelty of having GameCube controllers
slapped on the sides of your Switch and with
that it functions just fine. It could be a lot better, but I guess I'll take what I can get, considering the alternative
is one of these. Well, I guess the alternative is also just our regular Joy-Con. It does make the Switch a
little bit more comfortable, but the uncomfortableness
of the button layout and the overall design
makes me wanna recommend a Hori split pad over this
or even a Binbok controller if you still wanna utilize the wireless. Did I tell you that it's wireless? It's wireless, so you can use it just like a normal GameCube controller, with the little Joy-Con grip attachment, little sliver thing
they have in the middle, but it's still massive
compared to an actual GameCube controller. I'd rather just use a
regular GameCube controller. There's more features that
kind of just feel like bullet points on the website. There are hall sensing sticks, which I've explained before
I think is just a buzzword that is gonna make you think
that these things can't drift, but the sticks are very accurate and so are the gates and the
dead zones aren't egregious and it's got cool lights, that flash every time
you bump the controller, which is sure to waste battery. Again, everything is just fine here, but for $70, you know what? I don't know what I was expecting. This satisfies a problem that I don't think anybody really has. GameCube controllers
are readily available. You can just go buy one
right now for the Switch. PDP even makes some great USB ones, so you don't even need the little GameCube controller
adapter for the Switch. You could just plug the
PDP one right in using USB. Power A even makes very convincing wireless GameCube controllers. If you want something
grippier for a portable mode, you got the holy split pad, you got got the Binbok controller, hell you can even just use a satisfy grip. I feel like any of those would
be better options than this. Remember, this thing was
$70 with $15 shipping, 'cause you gotta buy
it from their website, so it costs me $85 (finger
clicking) for this thing. This thing only exists for the novelty. So if you play a lot of Smash Brothers and you use a GameCube controller and you would like something
like this for portable mode, you're probably gonna
be very disappointed. If you want something that looks
bizarre for your collection and you're more than
willing to spend 85 bucks, saw a GameCube controller in half. If you want something that can look nice and keep your OLED Switch
on, sure, there you go. We found a use for this. Anyway, what do you guys think about the NXYI GameCube controller for the Switch? Some of you probably have it already. Have you found good use of this? Is there anything that I could
use this for that I left out? I'm a little late on
making a video on this because they took a long
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