I like how Scott laughed at the entire idea of tabletop mode, but then suggested people play multiplayer on a Lite while player 1 is holding the console. WTF?
Funny thing is that you'd need two controllers because when you connect an external one to the switch lite it detects both the console and the controller as player one. So, you would need two controllers, and a way to put down the switch lite... You'd be in a very rough tabletop mode.
Switch lite main here, its just worse tabletop mode because you need 2 controllers still and a kickstand because it recognizes the first paired controller alongside the built in controls as player 1 for some reason (you can turn off the lite controls but its only until the next sleep mode and is weirdly deep in settings)
Scott’s opinion on table top mode is one of the rare times I disagree with Scott. Just going to School and being able to quickly play multiplayer with friends is really useful, especially when they don’t have a Switch
I brought my Switch to school and had a round of Mario Kart with my friends and the science teacher. We were all huddled around the tiny screen looking trying to look at the four way split screen. Good times.
I think Scott in general underestimates how much people play local multiplayer together in shared spaces like a school or wherever else. He rarely seems to play online multiplayer let alone local multiplayer.
we had a switch at my old rec job and we'd all play smash bros on itin tabletopmode during our lunch breaks and when the kids went to eat lunch. just a bunch of 18+ year old fresh outta high school kids playing smash and mario kart at work lol
4:00 This is a dumb argument. I'm playing in table-top mode because I'm playing multi-player in places where it otherwise wouldn't have been possible. This accessory was such a joy to have back in high school.
It's one thing to rough it and do what u gotta do or play when your literally out of the house but no one is gonna be like man I wanna play on a small screen instead of a big one and use a real controller
well yeah no shit. I have not used it once outside of highschool aka post pandemic. Playing smash when i finished the work with the substitute with my friends.
I'm a social worker and I regularly being my switch to work as sometimes kids find it easier to talk about problems while doing something fun, and them thrashing me at Mario kart while telling what's wrong with their life at that moment really helps. Because I work at a school I can't have a whole dock and TV set up so table top mode works really well.
Also the sideways USB-C port. Like… for me I got a stand that works for my switch so I can charge the thing in table top, but then the thick ass cable that I use for my external battery is in the way… I’m too lazy with buying a better cable, so I just use the cables that are included in with each switch pro controller I have 3 now btw 💀
Actually, the Adjustable Charging Stand functions really well as a way to charge the Switch while you are playing in handheld mode because you can rest the switch on your belly and the charging cord goes out of the side so you don't damage the charging port.
Scott: "the joycons charge last 20 hours and are usually plugged in, who's gonna run out? " Vargskelethor Joel: *runs out of battery so often he had a character in Miitopia called Low Battery*
I think the table top switch charger is probably great for a lot of disabled players - I have a mate who plays switch on a bed tray and the fact it’s adjustable might make their day lmao
I use the Charging Grip and I really like it. You don’t need to loosen all your Joy-Cons and can pretty much turn a pair into a standalone controller. If you’re playing single player it probably doesn’t make sense unless you never play handheld, but for someone like me that plays a lot of local multiplayer games it’s great
I have two sets of joy-cons and it makes keeping them both charged much easier. And now I have one set for handheld mode, one set for TV mode.There's a lot less juggling involved this way.
I got the charging grip in case there happened to be some way to play Nintendo Switch games with Joy-Con, but without a Switch. There is no way for that to happen, though. I'm just a strange but completely upright citizen.
@@tappyturtle Oh, I wouldn't know anything about that. I'm just a strange but completely upright citizen who owns Joy-Con and a charging grip, but no Switch.
It’s interesting how the Switch’s accessories are mostly utility extras whereas the accessories for previous generations were mostly gameplay-related peripherals
I actually used the Adjustable Charging stand, but I used it to connect a usb-c to usb adapter, then plugged in my Gamecube adapter, so I can play Smash portably with a Gamecube controller. Yeah I was the weird kid in High school
Funnily enough, 8bitdo has an a nice solution for that called the Gbros adapter. Though I guess it doesn't have the convenience of the more adjustable stand, or the 3 extra GC ports.
I don't like useing my switch in hand held as I have carple tunnle and the oled is quite heavy, being able to switch it to table top mode and then hold my joycons in the controller adapter works really well as it's more comfortable for me.
I'm the rare big fan of the Joycon Grip. I absolutely hate the feeling of two separated joycons, and I find sticking to the Joycon button layout more comfortable than using a pro because I use a lite for almost all of my Switch gameplay and have way more past experience on the WiiU Gamepad and (3)DS button layouts than I have on any kind of traditional home console controller. My preferred way to play anytime I'm doing multiplayer, which works out because other people usually want to have the pro controller.
The ergonomics feel quite nice, but for some reason the little analogue sticks put my arm in severe pain playing stardew valley. It made me run out and drop the money on the pro controller lol
i feel the exact same way, i'm also kind of annoyed by the "just buy a more expensive controller" angle because like. i'm broke. my hands are pretty damn small. why should i go out of my way to buy something that expensive when i have a perfectly good way to play that came with the system? not to mention that the wired ones that are significantly cheaper work just fine if you can manage without gyro and vibration 😭
@@girzarro I don't mind the grip as a controller, either. But I think it's like a few of the functions of the Joy-Con, where the pitch got made without Nintendo really believing it, and the second-order hype crashed hard when naive people finally realized truths such as, their Joy-Con don't combine into a DualSense
in my experience tabletop mode is for 1. Using a controller when you dont have access to a dock/tv (most often when you're in public/not at home) 2. Multiplayer in public/not at home. When I was in high/middle school we would prop it up and pass controllers and play smash, rocket league etc. all the time
From what I know, over here (Italy) table top mode is used by people while travelling by train, because in handheld mode the console is quite uncomfortable (too big, heavy, and the hands position is awful). So that accessory could even make sense for those people.
i feel that with the steam deck a lot of the time. fantastic handheld, but also really really needs a solution like the switch at times. playing a modern handheld isn't nearly as comfortable as it was
@@genderender yes. The commercial success of the switch has pushed other manufacturers to release the same kind of uncomfortable handhelds. Which is actually not a novelty, we had the Atari Lynx in the past which had the same problem and was a flop. Gaming history hasn’t taught console manufacturers a lot.
@@starpier i am yearning for something ds sized that can run modern games (either emulated or native) and there still isn’t. the best you get is switch sized. i’m hoping valve reuses the current deck chip for a smaller handheld in the future
@@genderender I went on a long train journey with my friend and I just propped my steam deck up on the table and had a controller in my lap. It was really comfortable, and it made it really easy for my friend to see the screen too. Fortunately the steam deck's charging port is on top, so I just used a regular tablet stand.
@@genderender tablet stands are cheap and the deck is overall as good or better at every switch "mode", but I agree that the deck could use a kickstand
Lol just yesterday I saw a kid with his parents on the subway, handling a Switch, playing some soccer game, while using *two* Joy Con grips. I think he was playing against himself in multiplayer
The charging stand is my mvp Switch accessory. I use it as somewhere to charge the system in my bedroom, while the dock stays hooked up to the TV in the living room, and it's way better than the flimsy inbuilt stand when I want to watch UA-cam in my bedroom. It's simple and sturdy, I highly recommend.
I think the 8 directional "snapping" in Link's Awakening always struck me as an artistic choice, and to be honest, I think it looks good for that particular title.
The charging stand, although expensive, is a great product I used many times both at home and during travel. Even on the OLED, the side charger is nice
The OLED model can "stand" on top of the stand in the official switch bag, and that both gives some useful height and free up the charger port for a power bank
The Joy Con grip is actually useful for multiplayer games, I still use it for Mario Kart and other four player mode games! The charging stand is useful for frequent traveling, since you can put the Switch on a table and play with friends!
The joycon grip is great. Especially because it's a lot easier to fit it in a switch carrying case than a pro controller. Also im not trying to own two pro controllers so when I play two player games one of us uses the pro and the other uses the grip. The fact that it was free with the system when they didn't need to include it I believe makes it perfect.
The Charging Stand is actually pretty nice if you think about being in hospital as exmaple and laying in bed all the time or so, this way you can play in tabletop while charging it. As one example.
Hey, being intentionally homeless for about 5 years, I lived and died with table top mode. I got alot of use out of the charging stand. Also lunch breaks at the chicken slaughter plant playing fifa with the boys. Good times.
@@lukegibson6044 good answer, by the way rn I'm away from home and I've been playing tabletop mode for basically the first time since i always play handheld and it's great, it's very conformable having the joycons separated and looking at the amazing oled screen
This video taught me that the adjustable charging stand existed. As someone who uses the switch in tabletop mode a lot, this has changed my life. Thank you.
My totally baseless theory is, Nintendo had SO many unsold stock for the charging grips, they took half of them, ripped off the handles, added a little stand instead, reboxed it, and are selling it as a charging stand this August.
I'd been looking to buy them for at or below MSRP for the last 4 years and they sold out before I could buy them so either they didn't make many or distributed them pretty poorly
Does 8-bit do have a controller with a D-pad that feels clicky (think new 3ds d-pad clickyness) and isn't too elevated? Not necessarily a switch controller as long as it's usable on pc.
@@emperormegaman3856 I would not consider 8bitdo controller dpads to be clicky. They are more tactile, like a more refined and responsive SNES dpad. I’d you want a soft click, I would look into the Nyxi Hyperion Pro.
When the Switch came out, I didn't have access to a TV at the moment so I couldn't play while docked. So when my friend and I wanted to play Super Bomberman R, I set the Switch up on a milk crate so I could weave the charging cable through the holes and have the Switch charged while we were playing. Pretty proud of my ingenuity, but playing on a screen that small with someone else gave me a headache so I never did it again... 😅
I remember seeing people use the BOTW guardian amiibo as a stand, it had articulated "arms" so it could hold the switch and you could still run the charging cable in. That amiibo became even harder to get hold of than the rest...
The fact that you love how the grip mirrors the joy con leds is indicative of your appreciation of details and thats one of the reasons I love your videos!
Not Switch related, but my wife and I still use my Wii U gamepad stand on a daily basis as a stans for our phones. I've gotten more use out of it than my Wii U itself. One of the best gaming accessories ever.
I recall when they debuted the switch and showcased the different ways to play with the joy cons and how you can free hand each one like the Wii remotes and I scoffed at it. Little did I know its the most comfortable way for me to play
A lot of people realised that it's a lot better for your shoulders, you can hold one joycon in each hand and have your arms by your side. It's definitely a really interesting niche, there's a lot of accessibility stuff people have done with joycons.
Tabletop mode is good that's it's recognised as a seperate mode. Tabel top mode is all about 2 player mode with split joy cons. This is a huge deal for people travelling or people who aren't allowed to use the TV where they are or even don't have a TV.
I use the adjustable charging stand a lot. Since I have multiple Switches in my life, I use the stand to place a switch on my desk when doing trades between Pokemon games. The other best use is for sitting on the couch and being able to plug in the charging cable on the side instead of the bottom. Love that stand.
I’m glad you talked about colors live!! I hella love that program. I’m in the same boat of having alternative options to draw but I still like using my switch for art whenever I wanna draw full color art without being tethered to my PC. I will say, I was a little confused at first about how to wrap the pen but I learned how to wrap the sonar pen from a video from their official discord but I’m sure by now they have a guide somewhere publicly. I wish they provided a guide for it at launch though. I really dig the app! I can see kids getting it and using the switch as their first drawing tablet. Just like how I used my 3ds as my first drawing tablet. :]
I almost exclusively use my switch in tabletop mode but never use the kickstand because it can just be propped up better on literally anything else and have no need for the charging stand because a regular charging cord works perfectly fine with minimal changes to the setup needed. Ultimately that is the biggest problem with these switch accessories, it is easier and better to just take the two seconds to think about how to set it up within your environment by using your environment to help you instead of paying stupid amounts of money for inconvenient accessories to solve your non-issues.
I want to defend the kickstand if you were in school when the switch released and probably still now putting it tabletop mode in a school cafeteria and during study hall made it an essential feature I think it gets taken for granted by its adult audience because there's no where you'd stop and play games as a group where there isn't TV you could plug it into but as I kid wed have smash tournaments literally anywhere.
I genuinely have used the adjustable charging stand every day I've been at work for the last 5 years. Even if you're not charging at the moment it's still a decent stand you can just tuck into your Switch case. Never regretted that purchase for a second I play in tabletop mode by far the most since I mostly play my Switch at work on the clock
I bought two of those USB C docks since they're some of the best docks out there, period. SUPER small and compact, low strain on the device's connector, good for phones, and decent amount of viewing angles.
The tabletop mode was actually really useful for group settings where you don’t have access to the tv. I remember back in high school my friends and I would sometimes set it up tabletop mode and play smash or Mario kart together and it worked great.
very funny that this video can basically be summed up as “i am an adult whose household consists of two people so i don’t have multiple joycons or devices that can’t simultaneously be docked at the tv around belonging to multiple different people that need to be charged for use all the time” LMAO
I remember that when the Switch was first announced, there were a lot of youtube experts making videos of why it was going to fail. And one of their biggest grievances was "not being able to charge the controller without the console"
Scott’s complaints about the Adjustable Charging Stand show how little he flys anywhere. I absolutely Adore the Adjustable Charging Dock when I’m flying, even more so when I have long layovers and my Switch regularly dies.
8-bitdo it's pretty good quality stuff, I bought one of their Nintendo 64 controller gut replacements, to turn a broken 25 year old Nintendo 64 controller, into a functioning Bluetooth Nintendo 64 controller.
Use my adjustable stand for when I travel. This was before portable screens became affordable. I still use it when I don't feel like hauling my screen around which is quite often.
He featured the Wii-like wheel which is similar, but the accessory that I was always the most interested in and I know would be useless to me is the grip that you can fit a single Joycon into to make it shaped like a regular controller. It have no doubt that it would feel better than just the Joycon on its side, but I also never ever use a Joycon on its side.
9:20 some designer: I make this snappy 8-direction navigation so people feel nostalgic and it enforced the play feel of the artstyle scott: it looks unfinished some designer: :(
I never played the original but honestly didn’t notice it as a big thing when playing. If my brain ever registered it, I just saw it as a stylistic choice.
My mom bought me the charging dock for Christmas one year, I never used it until I found it one day and just sat my switch lite on it. Does pretty good at keeping my switch lite charged whenever I’m not using it for months at a time.
I got a third party botw licensed case when I got my switch. It's rock solid and has several switch card slots. Doesn't have a handle, but I have no fear of anything breaking if I drop it. Plus it looks cool. Recently, I got a matching sheika slate inspired switch card carrying case because I had more cards than my case slots could hold, but it fits in the case if I need to pack it up.
I actually don't play portably, but I do play in either TV or Tabletop mode. I just don't like holding the console, I really love Tabletop mode for that.
Hundred percent. I don't use my switch that much any more, but I did back when I was in high school. We would set it up and play smash during lunch, and while the battery was fine to last through that, if we had a free period or something we were pushing it.
I bought the joycon charging grip because at the time I only had a switch lite and bought joycons and had no way of charging them. I bought the grey "plus" version and it works pretty well making it a larger controller
Table top mode is great on a plane. Put the tray down, out the joycons in the grip and you have a cozy set up. The two accessories you mentioned seemed incredibly useful. There has been countless times when i had to do some funky things to charge my switch while wanting to play in table top mode.
I lost my charging stand in my own bedroom. I still cannot find it, even after i lifted up my bed mattress and everything. I’m incredibly bugged by this
I like how Scott laughed at the entire idea of tabletop mode, but then suggested people play multiplayer on a Lite while player 1 is holding the console. WTF?
handheldcels always seething at tabletopchads
@@nazrac3449handheld cells is CRAZY😂
Funny thing is that you'd need two controllers because when you connect an external one to the switch lite it detects both the console and the controller as player one. So, you would need two controllers, and a way to put down the switch lite... You'd be in a very rough tabletop mode.
Switch lite main here, its just worse tabletop mode because you need 2 controllers still and a kickstand because it recognizes the first paired controller alongside the built in controls as player 1 for some reason (you can turn off the lite controls but its only until the next sleep mode and is weirdly deep in settings)
@@lillie_trash I'm confused because Sonic mania worked as player 1 and 2
Just my two cents: I spent so much time playing smash at school that the tabletop mode charging thing was a regular occurrence.
I work behind a stall in an antique shop and this is an issue for me too
did you ever think of acquiring two dictionaries, put the switch across both and routing the cable through the gap?
What schools lets you play on a switch?
@@paranaenselol why should a school forbid the switch of you just don't use it during lessons?
its also mostly for switch light users lol
Scott’s opinion on table top mode is one of the rare times I disagree with Scott. Just going to School and being able to quickly play multiplayer with friends is really useful, especially when they don’t have a Switch
I brought my Switch to school and had a round of Mario Kart with my friends and the science teacher. We were all huddled around the tiny screen looking trying to look at the four way split screen. Good times.
I think Scott in general underestimates how much people play local multiplayer together in shared spaces like a school or wherever else. He rarely seems to play online multiplayer let alone local multiplayer.
we had a switch at my old rec job and we'd all play smash bros on itin tabletopmode during our lunch breaks and when the kids went to eat lunch. just a bunch of 18+ year old fresh outta high school kids playing smash and mario kart at work lol
Yeah back when I was in high school I used tabletop mode constantly
@@Lutyrannus tbf, this IS Scott Wozniak, owner of Sonic Jam, not an RPG guy.
4:00 This is a dumb argument. I'm playing in table-top mode because I'm playing multi-player in places where it otherwise wouldn't have been possible. This accessory was such a joy to have back in high school.
It's one thing to rough it and do what u gotta do or play when your literally out of the house but no one is gonna be like man I wanna play on a small screen instead of a big one and use a real controller
well yeah no shit. I have not used it once outside of highschool aka post pandemic. Playing smash when i finished the work with the substitute with my friends.
you could chill though
I'm a social worker and I regularly being my switch to work as sometimes kids find it easier to talk about problems while doing something fun, and them thrashing me at Mario kart while telling what's wrong with their life at that moment really helps. Because I work at a school I can't have a whole dock and TV set up so table top mode works really well.
Also the sideways USB-C port. Like… for me I got a stand that works for my switch so I can charge the thing in table top, but then the thick ass cable that I use for my external battery is in the way… I’m too lazy with buying a better cable, so I just use the cables that are included in with each switch pro controller
I have 3 now btw 💀
I thought that was the regular-ass Joy-Con grip for a sec lmao
The fact I knew the difference immediately says way more about me than I wish it did
same.
@@Nerdtendo6366I know how you feel lmao
Turma da monica reference lets gooooooooo
@@Nerdtendo6366nah dude, you just remembered the normal grip isn’t see through
“Nobody’s junk is that big. That’s a Switch Pro controller!”
Scott coming in with the unintentional body positivity.
BBC 🌽: challenge accepted
@@IaconDawnshireweird
@@IaconDawnshire; I’m not sure why the British Broadcasting Corporation is contesting Scott’s claims on penis size, but ok.
Great timing. Nintendo forgot, too. That new charging stand is 7 years too late.
@GEREIKAT ?
They’re only doing it because the old joycons won’t be able to connect to the new switch.
@@jordanschmidt9772 how do you know that that's how it'll be
not really, the new charging stand is just repurposed old stock.
Lol I just bought an off brand switch charging stand. It works perfectly.
Actually, the Adjustable Charging Stand functions really well as a way to charge the Switch while you are playing in handheld mode because you can rest the switch on your belly and the charging cord goes out of the side so you don't damage the charging port.
As an avid Dankpods fans, his use of the word "nugget" made me perk up more than it should have.
DANKPODS
Arming the nugget now.
TONY
Can you believe no one bought this?
1.5 HUNGE?!
Watching Scott try tabletop mode on that shag carpet bugged me way more than it shouldve lmao.
Don’t worry, it’s not actually the floor.
@@TheSuper200is it a real shag carpet or green screen? i cant tell
@@RoachCatJrIt’s a table
@@RoachCatJr I think he showed it in a previous video, if my memory's correct it's a cut-out section of carpet on a table or something.
@@TheSuper200 I think knowing that just made it bug me more 😂
Seeing Scott's face in the reflection of the switch puts a stupid smile on my face
I was expecting him to look at the camera through it and say "Heyall" before pretending like it never happened
Finally, we doxxed Scott's Stash, he will never recover.
Scott: "the joycons charge last 20 hours and are usually plugged in, who's gonna run out? "
Vargskelethor Joel: *runs out of battery so often he had a character in Miitopia called Low Battery*
6:00 scott's stash face reveal
24:52 This too
It's just me or he looks like that dude from the channel "scott the woz"?
@@Vini_31no way not even close
@@Vini_31A little, but not really
@@Vini_31that’s a big stretch ngl
I think the table top switch charger is probably great for a lot of disabled players - I have a mate who plays switch on a bed tray and the fact it’s adjustable might make their day lmao
I use the Charging Grip and I really like it. You don’t need to loosen all your Joy-Cons and can pretty much turn a pair into a standalone controller. If you’re playing single player it probably doesn’t make sense unless you never play handheld, but for someone like me that plays a lot of local multiplayer games it’s great
I have two sets of joy-cons and it makes keeping them both charged much easier. And now I have one set for handheld mode, one set for TV mode.There's a lot less juggling involved this way.
Makes sense but personally if I have enough pairs I’d just get a Joy-Con charging dock to be neater
I got the charging grip in case there happened to be some way to play Nintendo Switch games with Joy-Con, but without a Switch. There is no way for that to happen, though. I'm just a strange but completely upright citizen.
@@MegaZeta emulation exists though Nintendo cracked down on the biggest Switch emulator
@@tappyturtle Oh, I wouldn't know anything about that. I'm just a strange but completely upright citizen who owns Joy-Con and a charging grip, but no Switch.
It’s interesting how the Switch’s accessories are mostly utility extras whereas the accessories for previous generations were mostly gameplay-related peripherals
I actually used the Adjustable Charging stand, but I used it to connect a usb-c to usb adapter, then plugged in my Gamecube adapter, so I can play Smash portably with a Gamecube controller.
Yeah I was the weird kid in High school
More like the FUN kid. They just never understood your refined tastes. 🍷
Funnily enough, 8bitdo has an a nice solution for that called the Gbros adapter. Though I guess it doesn't have the convenience of the more adjustable stand, or the 3 extra GC ports.
you play smash with a gamecube controller?
FREAK!!!!
Portable GameCube is a beautiful thing
I still use mine, makes it easier to bring my switch around without using the garbage kickstand
Not trying to come at anyone, but the first three accessories make a lot of sense if you
Have friends
And / Or
Leave your house
Yea I think there all great and might pick them up 😅
I don't like useing my switch in hand held as I have carple tunnle and the oled is quite heavy, being able to switch it to table top mode and then hold my joycons in the controller adapter works really well as it's more comfortable for me.
I mean we've seen Scott play multiplayer games alone many many times
so, in other words, none of what he has or does
That doesn't include me then lol
I'm the rare big fan of the Joycon Grip. I absolutely hate the feeling of two separated joycons, and I find sticking to the Joycon button layout more comfortable than using a pro because I use a lite for almost all of my Switch gameplay and have way more past experience on the WiiU Gamepad and (3)DS button layouts than I have on any kind of traditional home console controller. My preferred way to play anytime I'm doing multiplayer, which works out because other people usually want to have the pro controller.
The ergonomics feel quite nice, but for some reason the little analogue sticks put my arm in severe pain playing stardew valley. It made me run out and drop the money on the pro controller lol
Others exist now. We now know there are at least three
i feel the exact same way, i'm also kind of annoyed by the "just buy a more expensive controller" angle because like. i'm broke. my hands are pretty damn small. why should i go out of my way to buy something that expensive when i have a perfectly good way to play that came with the system? not to mention that the wired ones that are significantly cheaper work just fine if you can manage without gyro and vibration 😭
@@girzarro I don't mind the grip as a controller, either. But I think it's like a few of the functions of the Joy-Con, where the pitch got made without Nintendo really believing it, and the second-order hype crashed hard when naive people finally realized truths such as, their Joy-Con don't combine into a DualSense
Same, I used the Joycon Grip for about a year before getting a Pro Controller. Helped me get used to the Pro easily too
in my experience tabletop mode is for
1. Using a controller when you dont have access to a dock/tv (most often when you're in public/not at home)
2. Multiplayer in public/not at home. When I was in high/middle school we would prop it up and pass controllers and play smash, rocket league etc. all the time
You can’t forget something that you didn’t know even existed in the first place.
That just makes them even more forgotten
my dad
Hahahahahhahaha 😂
🚨 Epic comment alert 🚨
That just makes them even more “forgottenner!”
@@juniorgod321 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂
From what I know, over here (Italy) table top mode is used by people while travelling by train, because in handheld mode the console is quite uncomfortable (too big, heavy, and the hands position is awful). So that accessory could even make sense for those people.
i feel that with the steam deck a lot of the time. fantastic handheld, but also really really needs a solution like the switch at times. playing a modern handheld isn't nearly as comfortable as it was
@@genderender yes. The commercial success of the switch has pushed other manufacturers to release the same kind of uncomfortable handhelds. Which is actually not a novelty, we had the Atari Lynx in the past which had the same problem and was a flop. Gaming history hasn’t taught console manufacturers a lot.
@@starpier i am yearning for something ds sized that can run modern games (either emulated or native) and there still isn’t. the best you get is switch sized. i’m hoping valve reuses the current deck chip for a smaller handheld in the future
@@genderender I went on a long train journey with my friend and I just propped my steam deck up on the table and had a controller in my lap. It was really comfortable, and it made it really easy for my friend to see the screen too. Fortunately the steam deck's charging port is on top, so I just used a regular tablet stand.
@@genderender tablet stands are cheap and the deck is overall as good or better at every switch "mode", but I agree that the deck could use a kickstand
I have to say, these stash videos are coming out like crazy and I am here for it, especially if it helps Scott not get too burnt out
Lol just yesterday I saw a kid with his parents on the subway, handling a Switch, playing some soccer game, while using *two* Joy Con grips. I think he was playing against himself in multiplayer
The charging stand is my mvp Switch accessory. I use it as somewhere to charge the system in my bedroom, while the dock stays hooked up to the TV in the living room, and it's way better than the flimsy inbuilt stand when I want to watch UA-cam in my bedroom. It's simple and sturdy, I highly recommend.
I think the 8 directional "snapping" in Link's Awakening always struck me as an artistic choice, and to be honest, I think it looks good for that particular title.
It probably isn't but it's still neat
The charging stand, although expensive, is a great product I used many times both at home and during travel. Even on the OLED, the side charger is nice
It was great while I only had the switch lite and wanted to play something with the pro controller
They need to produce more stock and get it back in circulation
The OLED model can "stand" on top of the stand in the official switch bag, and that both gives some useful height and free up the charger port for a power bank
The Joy Con grip is actually useful for multiplayer games, I still use it for Mario Kart and other four player mode games! The charging stand is useful for frequent traveling, since you can put the Switch on a table and play with friends!
The joycon grip is great. Especially because it's a lot easier to fit it in a switch carrying case than a pro controller. Also im not trying to own two pro controllers so when I play two player games one of us uses the pro and the other uses the grip. The fact that it was free with the system when they didn't need to include it I believe makes it perfect.
i totally agree! not having to buy two pro controllers or extra joycons for local co-op in a single switch household is really useful.
The Charging Stand is actually pretty nice if you think about being in hospital as exmaple and laying in bed all the time or so, this way you can play in tabletop while charging it. As one example.
Hey, being intentionally homeless for about 5 years, I lived and died with table top mode. I got alot of use out of the charging stand. Also lunch breaks at the chicken slaughter plant playing fifa with the boys. Good times.
May i ask why you wanted to be homeless?
@@jsostickBored
@@lukegibson6044 good answer, by the way rn I'm away from home and I've been playing tabletop mode for basically the first time since i always play handheld and it's great, it's very conformable having the joycons separated and looking at the amazing oled screen
intentionally?
@@jsostick I was a rollin stone.
This video taught me that the adjustable charging stand existed. As someone who uses the switch in tabletop mode a lot, this has changed my life. Thank you.
My totally baseless theory is, Nintendo had SO many unsold stock for the charging grips, they took half of them, ripped off the handles, added a little stand instead, reboxed it, and are selling it as a charging stand this August.
I'd been looking to buy them for at or below MSRP for the last 4 years and they sold out before I could buy them so either they didn't make many or distributed them pretty poorly
I could watch Scott sell Nintendo accessories on QVC for hours.
I actually have the 8-bit-do game pad, I usually use it when emulating ds games.
8 bit do makes great stuff. I love my SN30 Pro; hands down it has the best dpad I’ve ever uesed
I see you at or near the top comment in every comment section. It’s like I’m passing you casually at the gas station. “Oh, hey Bryce is here.”
@@MrnotpibIf you're only here after Bryce was, aren't you somewhat of a stalker?
Does 8-bit do have a controller with a D-pad that feels clicky (think new 3ds d-pad clickyness) and isn't too elevated?
Not necessarily a switch controller as long as it's usable on pc.
@@emperormegaman3856 I would not consider 8bitdo controller dpads to be clicky. They are more tactile, like a more refined and responsive SNES dpad. I’d you want a soft click, I would look into the Nyxi Hyperion Pro.
I bought that 8-Bitdo controller specifically for Link's Awakening. It's still useful on lots of other games, but it was most useful there.
When the Switch came out, I didn't have access to a TV at the moment so I couldn't play while docked. So when my friend and I wanted to play Super Bomberman R, I set the Switch up on a milk crate so I could weave the charging cable through the holes and have the Switch charged while we were playing.
Pretty proud of my ingenuity, but playing on a screen that small with someone else gave me a headache so I never did it again... 😅
I remember seeing people use the BOTW guardian amiibo as a stand, it had articulated "arms" so it could hold the switch and you could still run the charging cable in. That amiibo became even harder to get hold of than the rest...
The fact that you love how the grip mirrors the joy con leds is indicative of your appreciation of details and thats one of the reasons I love your videos!
Not Switch related, but my wife and I still use my Wii U gamepad stand on a daily basis as a stans for our phones. I've gotten more use out of it than my Wii U itself. One of the best gaming accessories ever.
I uses the adjustable charging stand SOOOOOOO much! It saved me for months where I couldn't have a TV nearby
I recall when they debuted the switch and showcased the different ways to play with the joy cons and how you can free hand each one like the Wii remotes and I scoffed at it. Little did I know its the most comfortable way for me to play
A lot of people realised that it's a lot better for your shoulders, you can hold one joycon in each hand and have your arms by your side. It's definitely a really interesting niche, there's a lot of accessibility stuff people have done with joycons.
Tabletop mode is good that's it's recognised as a seperate mode. Tabel top mode is all about 2 player mode with split joy cons. This is a huge deal for people travelling or people who aren't allowed to use the TV where they are or even don't have a TV.
I like to imagine the position he’s sat in in order to be able to comfortably rest his hands and wrists flat on the floor.
You poor innocent soul.
He used to actually do these bits in the floor, but now it's a table with carpet on it to recreate the aesthetic.
@@TheGeekRex no way??? I must not be up on my Scott lore!
Scott having multiple successful channels really warms my heart
“Adding an apostrophe NT to my ‘does’s” ah yes, does’nt
I'm glad I'm not the only one that caught that
Does's'nt
does nintendo
Lol glad I'm not the only one who noticed!
Scott’s anime boy impression 0:01
Seeing the Sonar pen mentioned brought me joy because Colors Live was the first time i got to do digital art. I’m very thankful for it lol
I use the adjustable charging stand a lot. Since I have multiple Switches in my life, I use the stand to place a switch on my desk when doing trades between Pokemon games. The other best use is for sitting on the couch and being able to plug in the charging cable on the side instead of the bottom. Love that stand.
does anyone remember the Nintendo switch? man the memories that system brings...
Wow that one’s been in the depths of my mind for what seems like decades at this point
Is that the one you with a stand and red 3d?
Crazy to think we’re already at the point where the switch has forgotten accessories, 7 years really just passes by like that
Table Top Mode + Pro Controller + Charge Stand is my favorite way to play!
Its great!
I've never forget the joycon charging grip simply because scott can't stop talking about it
I’m glad you talked about colors live!! I hella love that program. I’m in the same boat of having alternative options to draw but I still like using my switch for art whenever I wanna draw full color art without being tethered to my PC.
I will say, I was a little confused at first about how to wrap the pen but I learned how to wrap the sonar pen from a video from their official discord but I’m sure by now they have a guide somewhere publicly. I wish they provided a guide for it at launch though.
I really dig the app! I can see kids getting it and using the switch as their first drawing tablet. Just like how I used my 3ds as my first drawing tablet. :]
A video INSIDE a video? Scott, you're spoiling us
I almost exclusively use my switch in tabletop mode but never use the kickstand because it can just be propped up better on literally anything else and have no need for the charging stand because a regular charging cord works perfectly fine with minimal changes to the setup needed. Ultimately that is the biggest problem with these switch accessories, it is easier and better to just take the two seconds to think about how to set it up within your environment by using your environment to help you instead of paying stupid amounts of money for inconvenient accessories to solve your non-issues.
I want to defend the kickstand if you were in school when the switch released and probably still now putting it tabletop mode in a school cafeteria and during study hall made it an essential feature I think it gets taken for granted by its adult audience because there's no where you'd stop and play games as a group where there isn't TV you could plug it into but as I kid wed have smash tournaments literally anywhere.
Four minutes in, and I have both of these. Charge grip not used as often, but I Minecraft in bed with the charge stand.
Ok
I genuinely have used the adjustable charging stand every day I've been at work for the last 5 years. Even if you're not charging at the moment it's still a decent stand you can just tuck into your Switch case. Never regretted that purchase for a second
I play in tabletop mode by far the most since I mostly play my Switch at work on the clock
Single Switch household with two kids. Charging grip is useful.
The charging stand makes sense if you have a Switch Lite, lives on my desk charged and ready without taking up loads of space
Oh boy 1am! New Scott's Stash video!!
a fellow englishman
Make it 3am😂
2am
Anybody in the military uses table top a whole lot 😂
It's 10:30am. I should get out of bed
I bought two of those USB C docks since they're some of the best docks out there, period. SUPER small and compact, low strain on the device's connector, good for phones, and decent amount of viewing angles.
The tabletop mode was actually really useful for group settings where you don’t have access to the tv. I remember back in high school my friends and I would sometimes set it up tabletop mode and play smash or Mario kart together and it worked great.
This is the kind of content I come to UA-cam for! My first Scott the Woz video was his video game controllers video.
Scott Wozniak is my favorite yapper 🔥🔥🔥
the charging stand was actually useful for playing in bed when the battery was low since they had the port on the bottom
Scotts about to explain the charging grips I’m so excited
North America did get the Switch stylus.
As a preorder bonus for Mario Maker 2, it came with a themed version based on the game.
5:25 very often
Dude I can't believe pokemon sword and shield music is nostalgic to me 💀
very funny that this video can basically be summed up as “i am an adult whose household consists of two people so i don’t have multiple joycons or devices that can’t simultaneously be docked at the tv around belonging to multiple different people that need to be charged for use all the time” LMAO
"I only touch grass for youtube videos" /j
Even then, get an officially licensed Joy-Con charger that fits 4 of them
I use the joy-con grip when I have someone come over to play, while I let the guest use the joystick. It's still great that it exists.
didn't expect "Bro, there's nothing for my fingers to do back here" to be a sentence uttered in this video.
I remember that when the Switch was first announced, there were a lot of youtube experts making videos of why it was going to fail. And one of their biggest grievances was "not being able to charge the controller without the console"
Scott’s complaints about the Adjustable Charging Stand show how little he flys anywhere. I absolutely Adore the Adjustable Charging Dock when I’m flying, even more so when I have long layovers and my Switch regularly dies.
The joycon grip also acts as a pretty good stand for extra joycons
Basically how I use it, but I also have a quad joycon charging dock so screw that too!
8-bitdo it's pretty good quality stuff, I bought one of their Nintendo 64 controller gut replacements, to turn a broken 25 year old Nintendo 64 controller, into a functioning Bluetooth Nintendo 64 controller.
Use my adjustable stand for when I travel. This was before portable screens became affordable. I still use it when I don't feel like hauling my screen around which is quite often.
I know 8bitdo makes a portable controller with joysticks. But I think it would be perfect if they used 3DS style circle pads
I remember going to the mall just to buy a joycon charging grip only to go home holding a steam deck
He featured the Wii-like wheel which is similar, but the accessory that I was always the most interested in and I know would be useless to me is the grip that you can fit a single Joycon into to make it shaped like a regular controller. It have no doubt that it would feel better than just the Joycon on its side, but I also never ever use a Joycon on its side.
I like that Nintendo controllers have such good battery life that it didn't matter that they didn't include the charger with the system.
9:20 some designer: I make this snappy 8-direction navigation so people feel nostalgic and it enforced the play feel of the artstyle
scott: it looks unfinished
some designer: :(
I love this controller so much, the portability of this controller is unrivalled.
I never played the original but honestly didn’t notice it as a big thing when playing. If my brain ever registered it, I just saw it as a stylistic choice.
My mom bought me the charging dock for Christmas one year, I never used it until I found it one day and just sat my switch lite on it. Does pretty good at keeping my switch lite charged whenever I’m not using it for months at a time.
"Tiny little nugget"
Dankpods x ScottTheWoz collab when?
Scott ranting about iPods while dank is just existing for skits in the background
He did talk about the video now already
@@Cryptosporidium_ Huh?
Can you believe no one bought these?
My wife first got into gaming with the Switch, and joycons are her preferred controller.
The Charging grip became a must-have lol
So but… wat if i have friends over and a pair dies? BOOM JOYCON CHARGING GRIP!!
I got a third party botw licensed case when I got my switch. It's rock solid and has several switch card slots. Doesn't have a handle, but I have no fear of anything breaking if I drop it. Plus it looks cool. Recently, I got a matching sheika slate inspired switch card carrying case because I had more cards than my case slots could hold, but it fits in the case if I need to pack it up.
I was about to ask what Scott was going to say for 11 minutes about the Nintendo license Switch carrying case.
That charging stand is pretty much "create a problem, sell the solution to it" in a nutshell :D
I actually don't play portably, but I do play in either TV or Tabletop mode. I just don't like holding the console, I really love Tabletop mode for that.
I loved the adjustable charging stand, I used it on flights all the time when I was traveling for work. I mainly used it for the angle adjustability
Scott’s Stash
Scott's Stash
Scott's Stash?
@@tomazingScott’s Stash!
So true
Scott sus
5:14 ive genuinely been in this predicament ALOT its so annoying, although i do use my carrying cases built in stand because the kickstand broke off
Hundred percent. I don't use my switch that much any more, but I did back when I was in high school. We would set it up and play smash during lunch, and while the battery was fine to last through that, if we had a free period or something we were pushing it.
Scott trashing all of these products, but tbf he did buy them all 😂
I bought the joycon charging grip because at the time I only had a switch lite and bought joycons and had no way of charging them. I bought the grey "plus" version and it works pretty well making it a larger controller
I have the charging switch stand. It's very overpriced but works !
because my switch stand broke off and I lost it
Table top mode is great on a plane. Put the tray down, out the joycons in the grip and you have a cozy set up. The two accessories you mentioned seemed incredibly useful. There has been countless times when i had to do some funky things to charge my switch while wanting to play in table top mode.
I lost my charging stand in my own bedroom. I still cannot find it, even after i lifted up my bed mattress and everything. I’m incredibly bugged by this
But a second one! The moment the return window passes, the first one will magically reappear! 😛
I have the charging grip and it's dope. I'm tired of pulling the joycons out and putting them back on the dock