I love my pro 2s because they feel like a playstation controller and a SNES controller had a baby to make me the perfect controller. That being said, I am not sure I would want to use it without the handles. I have a few of the 8bitdo SNES controllers without the thumb sticks and I like those just fine, but I feel like the thumb sticks would take away from them, not add to, but that's just me. Still, I guess it's good to have options.
Yup, I relate with everything you said. I gotta come clean though, I lost my SNES style 8BitDo (without the sticks) a while back. Not gonna lie, shooting that video made me think I might have to rebuy a new one! The problem I have is everytime I look it up, I then see the purple one with the sticks and I'm like: "Arghhh... I can't resist!" 😅
My only question is why? Why does this product exist? I completely agree with your assessment lad. On the upside, it's kind of a cool and rainy weekend in our part of the country so I'm taking the time to perform some heatsink surgery on a couple of new devices that just arrived in my collection. 😉
Nothing like a cool day of "nerding" out on some devices and giving them the uplift treatment! I need me a day like that, it's been a minute since my last one, thanks for the inspiration! 😊
A couple of things about the video and a couple about the controller: You always have good production values. I thought this episode's were a cut above your usual high standards. It was slickly done. Secondly; I thought you struck a good tone in this video. This Coriolis (fine, you win, Autocorrect-san) isn't particularly outstanding in any way, yet it isn't terrible either. In those areas where the controller had deficiencies I felt that you did a good job of being negative without coming across as mean spirited. And there were quite a lot of areas... As far as the controller itself, it looks nice. I think they nailed the styling. Granted, copying an SN-30 isn't exactly rocket science, but, they could've messed up, somehow. Maybe. It seems to work well enough too. As far as the polling rate; a professional doesn't blame his tools and I'm pretty sure I'd still suck at battle royales even with a million pings per second polling rate controller. This seems pretty okay for offline retro emulation, which is what I'd use it for. For $20 one could do worse. I have done worse... That said; for $5 more you can get a regularly priced GameSir Nova Lite which doesn't have the SNES vibes, or the gyro, but based off of this review is about a thousand times better at controller stuff. I know I'm about as annoying as the "Just buy a Deck" brigade with my many references to the Nova Lite under seemingly every controller video; but, that controller has broken my brain when it comes to what I expect out of a cheap controller. The thing is legitimately great; yet it MSRPs for only $5 more than this review unit's discounted price.
Well thank you Matt! Now the mission will be to keep that level of execution up, or at least to make it a "regularly matched" standard. As for the Nova Lite, I believe you know my opinion of it, which much like you is that it is an amazingly good controller so please, keep "brigading". I stand behind that product as you do, it's a great one to put forward in just about any scenario that it can effectively be done so.
Oh definitely. It depends how long you've been gaming and how much importance you've attributed to that but playing on bluetooth when having controllers that are obviously laggy is a great example, especially when playing retro games. CRT panels were blazingly fast versus many of the panels we have nowadays. Digital has great benefits but there were steps back too versus analog era. The gap has greatly been reduced but it's still important for some people. It may appear trivial to you, and great, I'd keep it that way! It just means that the small portion addressing that information is not geared towards you, but I do hope you saw value in other aspects of this review. If you have any inputs, about those portions, I'd happily ask what they are as I only try to get better for as many viewers as possible. Besides polling rate, I'd love to hear more feedback if you have some? Thanks bud!
This one is getting the white glove treatment
Yeah, it's so convenient to wipe the screens while I film. And I can moonwalk like Michael Jackson during intermissions! 😅
@@GameTechTalk hee-hee!
@@TheInfiniteNine 🤣🤣🤣 You know I heard it the moment I read it!
I love my pro 2s because they feel like a playstation controller and a SNES controller had a baby to make me the perfect controller. That being said, I am not sure I would want to use it without the handles. I have a few of the 8bitdo SNES controllers without the thumb sticks and I like those just fine, but I feel like the thumb sticks would take away from them, not add to, but that's just me. Still, I guess it's good to have options.
Yup, I relate with everything you said. I gotta come clean though, I lost my SNES style 8BitDo (without the sticks) a while back. Not gonna lie, shooting that video made me think I might have to rebuy a new one! The problem I have is everytime I look it up, I then see the purple one with the sticks and I'm like: "Arghhh... I can't resist!" 😅
@@GameTechTalk HAHA That purple does look awesome, so I can understand that.
My only question is why? Why does this product exist? I completely agree with your assessment lad.
On the upside, it's kind of a cool and rainy weekend in our part of the country so I'm taking the time to perform some heatsink surgery on a couple of new devices that just arrived in my collection. 😉
Nothing like a cool day of "nerding" out on some devices and giving them the uplift treatment! I need me a day like that, it's been a minute since my last one, thanks for the inspiration! 😊
Why another one if the consoles come with control already?
One can never have too many game controllers, It's the unwritten rule! 😂 What's your favorite controller of all time?
A couple of things about the video and a couple about the controller:
You always have good production values. I thought this episode's were a cut above your usual high standards. It was slickly done.
Secondly; I thought you struck a good tone in this video. This Coriolis (fine, you win, Autocorrect-san) isn't particularly outstanding in any way, yet it isn't terrible either. In those areas where the controller had deficiencies I felt that you did a good job of being negative without coming across as mean spirited. And there were quite a lot of areas...
As far as the controller itself, it looks nice. I think they nailed the styling. Granted, copying an SN-30 isn't exactly rocket science, but, they could've messed up, somehow. Maybe.
It seems to work well enough too. As far as the polling rate; a professional doesn't blame his tools and I'm pretty sure I'd still suck at battle royales even with a million pings per second polling rate controller. This seems pretty okay for offline retro emulation, which is what I'd use it for. For $20 one could do worse. I have done worse...
That said; for $5 more you can get a regularly priced GameSir Nova Lite which doesn't have the SNES vibes, or the gyro, but based off of this review is about a thousand times better at controller stuff. I know I'm about as annoying as the "Just buy a Deck" brigade with my many references to the Nova Lite under seemingly every controller video; but, that controller has broken my brain when it comes to what I expect out of a cheap controller. The thing is legitimately great; yet it MSRPs for only $5 more than this review unit's discounted price.
Well thank you Matt! Now the mission will be to keep that level of execution up, or at least to make it a "regularly matched" standard.
As for the Nova Lite, I believe you know my opinion of it, which much like you is that it is an amazingly good controller so please, keep "brigading". I stand behind that product as you do, it's a great one to put forward in just about any scenario that it can effectively be done so.
La qualiité est présente.
Merci monsieur! Bcp de changements ces derniers temps comme tu as pu voir mais cette fois-ci, je m'installe dans mon nouveau style pour y rester.
Love the blue 🔵 light
Thanks! I'd go purple if I could but it doesn't land itself as nicely, seems like it paid off! :)
Can you truly name a single situation where polling rate actually mattered? Come on man lol
Oh definitely. It depends how long you've been gaming and how much importance you've attributed to that but playing on bluetooth when having controllers that are obviously laggy is a great example, especially when playing retro games. CRT panels were blazingly fast versus many of the panels we have nowadays. Digital has great benefits but there were steps back too versus analog era.
The gap has greatly been reduced but it's still important for some people. It may appear trivial to you, and great, I'd keep it that way! It just means that the small portion addressing that information is not geared towards you, but I do hope you saw value in other aspects of this review. If you have any inputs, about those portions, I'd happily ask what they are as I only try to get better for as many viewers as possible. Besides polling rate, I'd love to hear more feedback if you have some?
Thanks bud!