![]() ![]() The d-pad felt good during a few rounds of Tetris 99. The wired controller is on and responsive on the home menu when I turn on the console with the Pro, but if I don’t first change the grip order before starting a game, I experience the issue of the wired controller being unresponsive at a game’s title screen until I change the grip order to properly register the wired controller. ![]() This meant that I had to turn on the Switch with the Pro, and then change the grip order to register the wired controller. Unlike the Pro, I can’t turn on my Switch with this controller with the Pro, I just push the home button and the Switch turns on, but nothing happens when I push the home button (or any other button) on the wired controller when the Switch is off. They have an almost chalky sensation when pushed down. The sticks and buttons make pretty loud, hollow clicking noises when playing, and the face buttons stick more than those on the Pro. I didn’t experience any lag with this controller, but it definitely doesn’t feel super sturdy in my hands, and especially when compared to the Pro Controller. I then went back into Animal Crossing using the wired controller and was playing with no issues. I had to go back to the home menu and change the grip order, connecting only the wired controller to the console. When I booted up Animal Crossing using the wired controller everything seemed fine at first, but when I got to the game’s title screen the controller was unresponsive. My Pro Controller was simultaneously, wirelessly connected to my Switch. Once the controller was connected I was instantly able to use it on the Switch home menu to select the game I wanted to play. This could’ve been the result of me failing to push the USB cable firmly into the controller, or it may have been a bad connection between USB cable and controller. When I first plugged the controller into the dock nothing happened I kept plugging and unplugging the USB cable into the dock to no avail, but then finally unplugged the end connecting into the controller and plugged it back in and it was on. A small light in the middle of the face of the controller will light up when it’s successfully connected. Setup is pretty easy: plug the USB into the Switch dock and it’s connected, according to the instructions. This controller does not support HD rumble, IR, motion controls, or amiibo NFC. The controller also has an AGR, an AGL, and a program button on the back, as well as a 3.5mm headset port, but I never used any of those buttons or plugged a headset into the controller so this review won’t touch on those features. This was a really comfortable length for my living room setup and I had a lot of slack in the cable. ![]() Since this is a wired controller it comes with a removable USB cord, as I mentioned above, which is 10 feet long. It feels hollow and airy, almost as though it has no guts at all, and I worry that if I were to drop it from a tall enough height it would crack (not that I make a habit of dropping my controllers). Very easy on the eyes.īeyond my visual first impressions of the controller, I was a little concerned by how lightweight it was when I took it out of its box. The face buttons are white, the d-pad and shoulder buttons are mint green, and the four buttons in the middle are brown along with the rubber tops of the joysticks. It’s decked out in the cheery mint green/sky blue two-toned color combo that’s become synonymous with Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which even extends to the mint green USB cable. This particular controller is from their new Animal Crossing-themed lineup, and features Tom Nook peeking out at the player on the left side of the controller. I took the PowerA Enhanced Wired Controller for Switch for a spin and played a number of games from different genres and of different play intensities to give it a fair shake. So as a creature of habit, it felt weird plugging in a new controller to test out, but I did it for you and I hope you’re happy about it. I play all of my games with it and rarely ever use my Joy-Cons, and also rarely ever play my Switch outside of TV mode. ![]()
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