 Do you know what these are? Do these look like the moderately expensive and kind of hard to find Xenoblade and Splatoon 2 themed pro controllers for the Nintendo Switch? Or do they look just a little strange? Can you tell which one is actually the $20 knockoff? They both are actually. These are both fake. But my curiosity peaked when I saw these controllers online. Not only did they have motion controls, not only did they have HD rumble, but they also featured an NFC chip reader, meaning I can use my amiibos on these things. And they're only $20. What was the catch? In fact, in front of me right here on this table, I have a bunch of fake Nintendo Switch controllers, even joycons. There has to be something wrong with these and all of the knockoff controllers that I have in front of me. And that is what we're going to get to the bottom of today and I'm going to rank every single one of these knockoffs from best to worst and let you know if it's actually worth buying any of them. 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Not so much with these ones. They did lie. I was lied to. But with a lot of these, there's just a lot of lying going on China. I might want to cut it back on the fibs. To start with, we got compatible with all games, which has on its card case. I don't know what that means exactly, but I'm going to assume it basically means compatible with the switch and all the games on the switch includes motion controls, HD rumble built in amiibo functionality and more. One of those is a lie. We're going to get to that built in battery can last 20 hours. I haven't tried using these for 20 hours. I don't know how true that claim is, but I wouldn't hold them to their word at this point. When your product is for a Nintendo system, but you can't sell it using the word Nintendo, you know, something fishy is going on, but they're very comfortable. Again, this is an actual pro controller for those that watched the video where I drilled into my hand and got blood everywhere. I was changing the skin of both these joy cons and this pro controller. So this is the original actual pro controller with some third party knockoff skin, but that's beside the point. It still feels the same. It plays the same. It's exactly the same. And if you want to learn how to do this, by the way, I'll leave a link down below and at the end of the video, so you can check that out. Also, I drill into my hand and that's always eventful. So the actual pro controller and a fake pro controller, the weight is exactly the same. The buttons look exactly the same. The toggles are done. You need to say it again, exactly the same. The triggers feel, I'm not saying it a fourth time, that you can't tell the difference just by holding one of these things. That's why I said if I had just seen this at a swap meet and picked it up for 20 bucks, I would have thought I got a steal. I mean, even right there, when I synced it up to the system, it recognizes it as the Splatoon controller. Everything about this is as legit as it can be. I'm not sure how they've managed to do this, but I do have one theory. So everything about these two controllers are great, other than this. Like I'm not sure if the NFC Amoeba Reader is hidden somewhere weird on the controller. I've tried just about everything and I can't get them to scan in. If I switch over to my actual pro controller, it works immediately. I switch back to my cheapy cheapy fake fake. It says built-in Amoeba functionality. It's just a lie. Like it's just a flat out lie. It says it on the box, which I paid extra to get the box, by the way. It says it on the box. It says it online. It says it everywhere. They are supposed to be able to read. You can actually kind of see through the case. It's almost like a clear case and it almost looks like there is nothing in that spot. Every single part of these feel legit. Even the cases look legit. Everything about them is a pro controller. The only thing that it can't do is read Amoebas. Other than that, if you're looking for a cheap pro controller and you want to risk maybe them showing up kind of broken or maybe not showing up at all, 20 bucks ain't bad. Let's move on to something that is bad. That's very bad. These Joy-Cons. Now, to the untrained eye, yet again, these might actually just look like normal Joy-Cons. But take a closer look. They're massive. These are the extra-large Joy-Cons, which I actually heard about thanks to Kevin Kensen. To the point where, and again, I talked about syncing these controllers and how much of an issue it was. With these pro controllers, the only way I could get them to sync was with the USB cord. Hooking it straight up into the switch. With these, I actually couldn't figure it out for the life of me. And they didn't come with any kind of instructions. At least mine didn't. So I had to actually watch Kevin's video to find out how to sync these things. On this one, I had to hold the white button and the home button down at the same time. And on this one, I had to hold the left on the D-pad and the capture button at the same time. And I had to try that about seven times before it finally worked. Like I thought Kevin was trolling me. So if we can get these to turn on somehow right now, that would be great. I got one of them on. Okay, finally. Takes forever. Now these are nowhere near as nice as the pro controllers. They are, they are no way compared in my opinion. Let me go through everything that's wrong with them. For starters, the HD rumble. It feels loose. It feels weak. It feels really off. It feels like there's a goldfish inside each one of these that's just flapping around sporadically at random intervals. It's not a very strong or very good rumble at all. And it's definitely not a HD rumble. They are extremely light, which ain't necessarily a bad thing, but it makes them feel really cheap. The plastic feels really cheap and they just feel really cheap. But the D-pad here is awful, truly awful. It doesn't have a nice feel to it. It doesn't click well. It feels weirdly spongy, but they do work both like this in my hands and clipped into the switch. However, and this right one is kind of a pain in the butt. Really have to force it. And it was really hard to get off the switch. Like I am pushing this down with a lot of strength right now. There we go. These lights here, they never go off. They are constantly on. And the reason for that is they don't actually connect to the switch. They're still technically operating as if they're wireless, as if they're still in my hands. There's no way to actually sync them up to the switch like that. You even have to charge them separately by the USB ports. Meaning you need two of these USB cords plugged in and charging these things separately, which is very annoying. And they don't charge up when they're connected to the switch and in the dock. They are absolutely your responsibility to separately charge up when you're done playing. And they don't last long. Again, according to Kevin, I watched his video. They last about four hours at best. So when it comes to battery life and charging the battery, they are not fun to deal with at all. But for what it's worth on the bright side, I do kind of like the way they look on the switch. It obviously makes the switch seem a lot wider and they just sort of are comfortable. Do I recommend them? No, not at all. Yeah, really don't cheap out on Joy-Cons. Now this one is stuck permanently to my switch. Oh man. So at this point, I feel like I've left two elephants in the room. Let's start with the Xbox controller. Why has there been an Xbox One controller sat on this table the whole video? Well, because this Xbox One controller isn't actually an Xbox One controller. As you can probably guess by the theme of the video, it's a switch controller. And this one also came in recently. And I haven't even taken off this blue plastic wrap yet. That was really satisfying. I'm not gonna lie. Now out of every controller on this table right now, and I'm even the other elephant in the room, which I'll get to, I have to say this one feels the cheapest. This feels like a $7 controller to hold in my hand. But it also feels pretty much exactly like an Xbox One controller. Just a lot less quality. It is pretty much the same mold. It just feels like it was made with the cheapest ingredients you could possibly find. Let's go ahead and turn on this Xbox One controller by holding down this metal button. We have a really cheap looking middle button with some really cheap lights flashing around it. The B button, and this really doesn't matter, but the letter B is completely misaligned with the middle of the button, and it's really throwing off my OCD. So we're gonna just not look at that anymore. It just plays even more into how cheap this thing looks and feels. Oh, I was supposed to be ranking these, by the way, and I forgot. So the pro controllers, yeah, they're really nice. These Joy-Cons, no, they're really bad. So let's keep it going. This controller, just like the pro controller, apart from the fact it feels a little cheap, it really works. And one thing I do like, and I really should have tested this on a racing game, although I imagine the control inputs are just going to register as, I'll tell you what I mean. These, all over the place, these triggers are the only triggers I have found so far on any Switch Joy-Con, knockoff controller, anything that actually pressurized. And they do feel nice, honestly. They have some nice give to them. And again, even the motion controls aren't working anymore. I may have spoke too soon. Wait, hold on. Did I turn motion controls off or something? There we go. Okay. I thought I'd broken the controller. In this one, it's not as good as the pro controllers, but it's still pretty good and very usable. If I was handed this controller by my big brother to play really any two-player game on the console, which is where these knockoff controllers are most likely going to be used. Let's not beat around the bush. I probably wouldn't ever feel like I was at a huge disadvantage. I would still really only have myself to blame. I would still blame the controller, don't get me wrong, but the merit to it is questionable. I'm going to put that squarely in the middle. Now, we have one more. An old boy. It's a good one. This is an Ouya controller that has been reprogrammed and recolored, re-skinned, and repurposed as a Nintendo Switch controller. I really don't know why, because this is by far the Ouya controller was by far the worst controller of all time. And there are some shocking controllers out there. And this is absolutely the worst controller I have ever used. Ever. It feels horrible. It's just, there's no good way to hold it actually. I'm trying to figure out how my brain wants to hold it and there's no good way. My hands don't fit in this thing. Kind of want to wrap around and grip on almost like I'm holding a firearm. And this ridge here is almost sharp in the hands. Like it almost, it rubs against the bone. That's it. That is the best way I can explain it. Every point of this controller, other than right here, rubs against the bones of your hand. Like this controller is making me angry. Just trying to explain how awful it is. It is, it, freaking triggers man. The way that they kind of just sit flush on the top of this controller and then press into the, like they kind of sink down, like into a pit of emptiness. It's so ugly. Like everything about it. What a waste of space. Everything about this is just a waste of plastic, but you know the worst part of this controller. Listen to the sound this controller makes when you click in the thumb sticks. That is the loudest. Like I can't even hear myself talking over this. Could you imagine trying to subtly and quietly play your switch in bed next to your wife or partner or just in the same house at like 2 a.m. in the morning. So you better hope that whatever game you're playing doesn't need you to be clicking in the thumb sticks. Or I guess you better hope that no one buys you this thing. Not that I have, I have any idea why anyone would buy this thing other than for the lulls, which is exactly what I've done. So I shouldn't even be this angry because it's not like I ever have to use this thing again and I can go out and burn it later on. You know what? This is going all the way down here. It is the most uncomfortable and I'm, and I, you know who I'm mad at? Oh yeah. It's like they never, they didn't even get anyone who had ever played a video game in their lives or held a controller in their lives to help out on the project. I think they just took one look at it and they thought the design was cool and they went with that. I don't, I don't know why I got so angry about that. You know, they don't actually say Nintendo. Do they? They do. They're not able to actually say the word Nintendo or anything, which means they didn't print the word Nintendo on here, which means these are like I legitimately at the very least bought the skins. I mean, that's a good buy. That really isn't bad. Just stay away from this. It's the point, the point to my entire video is buy this maybe. Don't ever buy this ever. Not even a maybe, never. I don't care. Like, subscribe, hair flip. I'm Kevin Kensen and you've been watching the Kevinator. How does he end his videos? Kevin, you need to end your video. Okay, I do. Hey big Kev, I'm not sure how you end your videos. We would all like you to be informed that from now on, you have to end your videos by saying you've been watching the Kevinator. Thanks, thanks for watching. Yeah, so now you know. Oh man. He's going to get that message and be like, what? How are you? Yeah, I'm good. What were you doing? Driving. Oh yeah, don't talk and drive. I don't know how you sign out your videos, but I decided from now on you have to sign them out by saying I'm the Kevinator and I'll see you next time. I mean, that's up to you. You can play around with it as long as you end every video with it from now on. It doesn't sound like a yes. You're only going to disappoint me in half a million people. It's fine. Okay, so I told Kevin that I was pretty sure that this was a mostly real legit pro controller and he told me that he really wanted me to open it up and find out. And I really don't know what I'm looking at. So I'm going to call Spawnwave and send him a photo of the board and see if he can tell me if this thing is real or not. Hi, how are you? Good, how are you? I'm good. I'm just creating the most ambitious crossover in a Nintendo Switch controller video. The most ambitious crossover? Yeah, I already called Kevin Kenson. Now I'm calling you. Did I tell you about those controllers I found on AliExpress? Those the pro controllers? So I got them and I've been messing around with them and I was convinced that they were actual pro controllers just with the NFC chip taken out. Can you tell just by looking at that? Yeah, actually, I noticed that too just a moment ago. Yeah, I just couldn't be bothered opening that one again. Well, that answered that. Thanks. Oh yeah, no problem. It turns out that pro controllers have a little Easter egg. When you look behind the right thumb stick, it says thanks to all the game fans. Well, this Chinese knockoff board tried to recreate that Easter egg, but they misspelled it. To mix two all game fans, El. They just put an L on the end. Well, they fooled me. I still stand by it. It's a very, very good fake. It's clearly using all the right parts. Something I didn't think about is there is supposed to be a Nintendo Switch logo right here and there's not. So, um, yeah, whatever. If you want to see me open up a different pro controller and change the skin as well as do this stuff, click or tap right here, subscribe, half lip all over it. I'd really appreciate it. Oh, and remember to tweet at Kevin Kensen every single day until he finally ends at least one video with you. You've been watching the Kevinator and I'll see you next time.