 oh boy guys I've replaced my pro controllers you see this you doggo nobody cares about you anymore you have so many issues there's drifting there's a whole bunch of nonsense to be completely honest I've been looking for a replacement for switch joy cons for a long time third-party options a plenty but the problem with third-party options for joy cons is that you always seem to give up something significant when you buy them you know you get the the joy pad pros or whatever they don't work wirelessly you know those are like the Hori joy pad pros they don't work wirelessly you lose rumble and you lose some key feature sets of things like this in the for the sake of comfortability I guess plus it gets really bulky and I don't want bulky joy cons but I also don't want to give up features and one feature usually give up if you want everything especially in portable mode is rumble and I don't want to give that up you also give a wireless connectivity this these joycans are hard to replace and that's the fact that there's drift and everything else you know this doggo design is fine and everything but it's not quite perfect from Nintendo I'm not very ergonomic and again joycon drift is real and spending 80 bucks to replace a pair of joy cons or just you know 40 bucks or so to get one joy con to replace the left one which drifts most often is a bit of a hassle so I've been looking for replacements for a while you know you spend 80 bucks on these you know I have another set here it's just why why am I wasting money on Nintendo accessories that aren't working so in my quest to find a replacement I discovered this so this is the etch power joy pad for the Nintendo switch and it says switch light as well although I'm gonna tell you guys don't really buy these if you're looking to use them on the light then again you have a light you don't really replace the joy cons anyways you get drift you better be willing to take that bad boy apart and replace the stick yourself but these are what I discovered and there's some key things about these as you can see right here they come with the at the M logo design to replace the doggo for your your wireless connectivity controller things but what's interesting is that you get pretty much everything you could ever want in joy cons you do get rumble although it's not HD rumble it's traditional rumble I gotta be honest with you guys when is HD rumble outside of like mattered outside of one-two switch just being honest it's a really cool tech that isn't being used I think this is gonna end up being like the haptic feedback tech of the PlayStation 5 DualSense controller where some games are gonna use it at a start and it's gonna seem really cool but then as the gen goes on like it's just gonna be like normal and normal trigger rumble that we see even in the Xbox so it's got rumble which is a feature I actually enjoy since most games don't take advantage of HD rumble they just use it like traditional rumble so you get rumble you get wireless connectivity as you can see here player one player two you get full-sized control sticks which are actually better than the joy con sticks they are actually traditional control stick which means yeah you don't have that rumble issue right or I'm sorry you don't have the joy con drift issue right the drift issues avoided because these are traditional controller stick designs you get your ABXY buttons which yeah they're a bit squarish compared to the realm but honestly when you're hitting them you don't really notice the travels about the same you get your plus and your minus you get your capture button you get your home button and then you get some additional buttons as well you have your quick quick menu access button but you also have turbo buttons now I don't I'm not gonna be using the turbo so while there is turbo buttons included with this I've never been a turbo button user I didn't buy this controller because of turbo you want to experiment with turbo that's fine I'm experimenting with these as true joy con replacements you everything you could have the one feature you are giving up is a feature you probably don't even realize well two features really one you do not have the camera so there is an IR camera on the bottom of this again if you're not playing one to switch you don't really need it and based on the sales one to switch you guys aren't playing one to switch and to the other feature you give up is a feature that I never even bothered to use and that is NFC technology so on here you could tap your amiibo on and use them in smash rows and stuff like that you can't do that with this but even when I play smash I don't do that so it doesn't really matter to me I'm not giving up anything that I don't want and these are only 40 bucks half the cost of traditional joy cons for what I think is a more ergonomic design now when you unbox this bad boy and you open it up you will have this thing sitting on the inside like this you take that out and then when you lift up this plastic underneath there will be a power cord which is not in here but I don't know what I did with it it's a USB-C charging cable that you could plug it to the back of either one of these controllers and then a user manual now this user manual explain how turbo works and all that jazz the thing is you can connect these to the rails of your switch they will connect to that they will connect to the switch the same way normal joy con do as well they will also charge off the switch they have a 300 milliamp hour battery although it says 400 milliamp hour I didn't bother to open it up to see which is correct whether the ad on Amazon for 300 milliamp hours is correct which is exactly what the these joy cons use or if the 400 milliamp hour in the in the pamphlets correct doesn't really matter because they get plenty of battery life I get almost you know 8 to 12 hours worth of battery life which is about what I get on a standard joy con but let's go in and show you that the controller works that there isn't drift all that jazz so let's just get into this right now so I'm gonna start moving the joystick here see a move on screen we're gonna go down to controllers and then we're going to sorry so we want to look at right we don't look at controllers we're gonna go to system settings here controllers and sensors controller vibration on and then we're going to calibrate the control sticks all that has motion control as well I forgot to mention that so we press down on the left stick and you see there is no drift it is just sitting here without any drift as I move it around you see got full range of motion no issues no dead zones that's kind of a common issue with their body controllers dead zones nothing there all right so let's back out let's press down the right one and you'll see again there's no dead zone it snaps back like it should go around everything works as it should as a control stick should all right so we're gonna back out now we're gonna calibrate the motion controls so we're gonna calibrate the controllers we're gonna start with the left one so I'm gonna press the minus button we got hold it down here place the control on a flat stable surface with the stick facing upward so we're gonna set it down calibrations been complete all right so so it has motion controls I will show that off in a game here so let's go find something that takes advantage of motion controls like say Splatoon 2 all right so we'll load the Splatoon 2 all right so I don't have motion controls on right now I just wanted to show you guys that the control stick here and the running around where it's just fine as between so let's let's go to the menu here let's turn on motion controls now I don't actually use motion controls in Splatoon I'm not a big motion control fan but we're going to do that anyways most control is turned off so let's turn it on all right let's back out and you're gonna see that the motion controls work like they should there's no missing controls that the gyrosensors work just as well as your regular joy cons gonna run around you can shoot you shoot all that jazz now I am not a motion control user so I'm gonna go actually turn that off so I'm gonna I'm gonna go get into a match so one thing we talk about here as I'm gonna go get into a match is how the triggers and everything feel now they are a little bit loose feeling and so makes it feel cheap you can tell that it's made out of cheaper materials but since we don't have you know the sort of pressure sensitive triggers on this it's all digital just like on here it ends up not mattering that much and I'm gonna go into a mattress of a tune just to just to get kind of a play test here for you guys in in TV mode here that's really hard to show off handheld mode but we'll we'll try our best to to give you a look at handheld mode in a bit so as you can see here I'm just spraying some ink around having some fun it honestly feels great I like the new though the different ergonomic design of this controller everything's working as it should the buttons are having a nice contextual feel to them I'm not very good at spittoon but nice contextual feel I really like everything about this girl now one thing we do at the Tesla is a D-pad because oftentimes on these third-party controllers the D-pack it feel a little mushy or sometimes it be not responsive so we'll check out some Mario 35 here after this match is done just just to give her a look see and see what you know I can feel the rumble action happening every time I get into the ink and it feels nice it's a nice contextual feel with the the pressure on the ink so it's a Mario 35 action and we'll we'll test out the D-pad here now the D-pad does kind of have a concave in the middle feel to it but we'll see how responsive it is here so we're up and down up and down feels fine but we to really tell you got to get into some gameplay so let's see here let's select the the one one course and try out Mario 35 matches here and see how this feels it's got kind of a little bit of a sharp edge but they do have rounded corners so it doesn't feel too bad but let's let's see what it's like when we actually play and you'll see me using the D-pad and playing Mario 35 as we try to get a win and I will see if there's any sort of issues going up and down left and right or if it like pushes opposite directions when you're pushing down the sticks or on the D-pad area you guys know what I'm talking about all right so let's go you're trying to remember which ones jump and which ones so it feels fine I don't really feel any issues with that D-pad obviously not the most comprehensive of tests but I'm pretty satisfied there I'm like I'm liking how it feels so I guess the last thing to really talk about is how does this bad boy feel in handheld mode well let's find out all right so as you can see in handheld mode this is kind of the ergonomic design I was talking about on the back here you can see kind of both the concave you see where the USB-C controllers plug in and honestly it feels really great in handheld the only flaw in these controllers I see is that when the system isn't on and the controller is disconnected from the system you cannot turn it on it does not turn the system on see how it's like trying to connect but it doesn't and then when the system is on oftentimes I can't get the controller to do anything see how the lights not moving but if I slide it on the side like this suddenly I am connected so it has a hard time wirelessly connecting if it's not already attached to it first now when you take it off when you take them off it will connect like normal so it's kind of weird that it works that way but I got to be honest it's not really not that big of a deal to me I usually my joy cons on the side anyways until I want to take them off and just kind of turn the system on first so not a big deal to me just a little bit of handheld experience works great just being completely honest here so what's my grand takeaway well my grand takeaway is the old original joy cons I'm just gonna throw them in the trash like I'm literally done with them these are completely replaced and there's different color sets you can get of these I just got the neon blue and red version because that's just what Amazon had in stock at the time and I didn't want to have to wait but there are other color variations of these again the brand name here is the etch power joy pad for Nintendo switch slash light and yeah honestly outside of the minor quip you need to slide them under the side of the switch in order for them to be recognized by the by the actual switch before you take them off that's really the only flaw I see and for 40 bucks I'll take that over joy con drift any day I gotta be completely frank here yeah these are better than joy cons for 40 bucks I can't suggest them enough I know this looks a little weird but it feels great in the hand the controllers feel great in the hand whether it's in handheld or in TV mode or I guess if you wanted to try out tabletop mode you could do the same thing but it's gonna be the same experience as in TV mode man oh man these are some fantastic controllers for only 40 bucks I'm gonna put an Amazon affiliate link down in the description so you can pick them up for yourself if you're having issues with joy kind of you're looking for new joy cons or you want more ergonomic joy cons I know there's a lot of third-party options out there and I have tried a ton but these are the best and you give up the least you have all of the core functionality you really want minus an IR camera and regular rumble instead of HD rumble doesn't really make that big a difference Nintendo doesn't use HD rumble pretty much outside of one-two switch oh and NFC functionality which again when's the last time you tapped an Amiibo on your controller it's not like your old joy cons are gone you can still plug them back in if you really need that that functionality but damn damn the damn also with this you won't need something like a satisfied grip because it puts your hand in a more natural feeling position because of the way these are designed and honestly that's not that much worse than than the normal joy cons it's really minimalistic I like it all right folks so be sure to check this out be sure to enter our giveaways we are giving away a Nintendo switch a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox Series X also two copies a pick me through your likes are in the description to find out how to enter that thank you guys so much for tuning in I am the thing about you guys from the center prime this is the etch power joy con replacements yeah baby yeah baby see these garbage see this that's what you want to get now only $40 thank you guys for tuning in and I gotta get back to play some switch so I'll catch you guys in the next video