What game would you play FIRST on a $1400 Nintendo Switch?? God of War? Horizon? Golden Eye 64??? Go to buyraycon.com/beatemups for 15% off your order! Brought to you by Raycon!
For Dolphin do this: Add it as a steam game, configure the controls in steam as a gamepad, go to manage shortcut, turn OFF 'allow desktop configuration in launcher. Launch it from Steam then configure controls
So it's basically a switched sized and looking gaming pc. It's a good concept but at $1400 I'd rather just use a gaming pc that I can also use as a pc for work and school.
I had a similar issue on the emulation side of things. I found you need a hardware mouse and keyboard for set up and make sure the controller isn't being controlled by like a JoyXOff or similar program
I use controller companion on steam it’s like 5 bucks. It’s really easy and you can add games to profiles to use with those like Age of Empires and other games like that
Hey Wood. the past few days have been hard with my parents sick with the virus, your videos are so positive and have been getting me through all of this thank you for your content 🙏
I would love to see this with a dock that has a more powerful GPU in it. I would love to replace my desktop gaming rig with a dockable switch type handheld. we're in a golden age of gaming and tech, and I cant wait to see what fun gimmicks are yet to come
I'm thinking around 2025 we will have a handheld windows console that can run most games at 1080p 60fps. I think I'll just use my 1060 laptop until then (if it survives).
the OSK glitch occurs when the game is running in "exclusive fullscreen" mode, just go into options and disable that making it run in "normal" full screen mode. its a windows thing. not an "aya neo" thing
Because Aya is small company it's a shame. Because the steamdeck is soooo much cheaper and made me reserve one. Valve can take losses though. It's a cool piece of tech but could never justify the price. The storage is nice tho
You can solve a lot of controller issues in emulators by adding them to your Steam library as external games. Steam is surprisingly good at mapping and managing controllers.
Not just good, but amazing at mapping, especially with the custom community downloads. You can even find support for motion on the switch controller that works on PC games.
An important note is that the aya software has built into it power control - so you can increase or decrease power usage in order to get more perforamance or more battery depending what you're fps goal is. so on the games getting around 25, you might be able to bump up the power and make it to the solid 30 (at the expense of battery time and fan noise)
Thank you for still reviewing Nintendo accessories and stuff. Nintendo was out of order telling you not to do that. Your Nintendo reviews are great even if some stupid Nintendo reps decide not to give you free games. Nintendo does not own you. You are the most popular Nintendo RU-vidr. Nintendo should be giving you gifts and praises, but instead they try to control you. Do you, Wood. Keep it up Do what you do regardless what other dumb commands or orders some idiots in suits tell you.
@@Matt-bp5vy who knows, but Wood said Nintendo told him to stop receiving or reviewing them. It was a while back. They make outrageous demands to someone that doesn't even work for them. They aren't in any position or place to be doing that. Maybe Wood should try to sue them.
Not defending what Nintendo did, but from what I understand Nintendo dropped Wood from the Ambassador Program and asked him to remove all mentions of him being in said program. AFAIK Nintendo haven't told Wood to stop reviewing their products. AFAIK they cannot do that, you can't tell someone they aren't allowed to review products publically available for sale. But yes, Nintendo made a big mistake by dropping Wood from the program (and ghosting him is madness), but ultiimately this has given him more freedom in his content. Stay safe, everyone.
there are some settings that you could have probably made to make it run at 60fps on cemu and on the amd panel, i did it and it used to run around 20/30fps and now it runs at 60fps smoothly, but anyways great video, i hope you will review the steam deck when you get the chance.
This was a very well done video. Neo giving you a a customised handheld was so cool. It's great for marketing and at the same time I think it's a great gesture.
Changing the TDP power profile will give you more or less performance; will also affect battery life. The screen issue is annoying for RDR2 but once I was able to set full screen, I no longer had issues. Definitely requires tinkering with the device to get things working but once it does it's great.
Not particularly to this console, but I really like how these days this smaller CPUs which aren't desktop are getting more powerful for a price of heat and fan noise
It's awesome, but I look forward to when we can have powerful _and quiet_ chips for handhelds. I don't want to sit in public with my handheld sounding like a vacuum... And constant fan noise gives me a headache.
One thing you need to remember : Console makers like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and now Valve don't make money out of hardware. As Gabe said : They "tried to loose as few money as possible". This is an investment. If players have their device, they will be more likely to buy games on it, giving them the 30% percent cut. These people don't sell games, so their device is obviously more expensive.
There's also the issue you had on stream for a good 20mins where the capture device was displaying the screen at the wrong orientation after launching melee 😅
Just an FYI I got the raycon gaming for travel, low latency mode on the switch was spotty with constant cut outs then extreme dips in audio quality. On PC you cant use the mic unless you want your audio quality to dip to ham radio levels of quality. So for the price you are better off with anything else (that will definitely have the same PC mic limitations due to BT Bandwidth, which I learned). I got Raycons based on switch channels recommendations. If they at least worked fine on the switch in low latency mode I would of been happy with the purchase.
@@GoTEnjoyerMatt I wanted low latency wireless for my switch, I have a good pair of iems for music. There weren't any reviews on how good its low latency mode functioned.
@@deibiddochan the raycon gaming have some sort of low latency mode, doubt it's aptx but works good on phone. But for my phone I usually want to listen to music, so I use my iems, on my switch I wanted convenience and their low latency mode would cut out and randomly have output quality issues. Latency was good enough though.
@@GoTEnjoyerMatt KZs? I have a pair and can confirm they are great. They also have a detachable 2 pin cable, meaning you can make them wireless with a wireless adapter.
@ayman aboufarise how is this plagiarism mate Nintendo doesn’t have copyright on handheld consoles anyone can make one and emulation for that matter isn’t illegal.
I'm glad you mentioned Outerwolrds. That was a very regrettable purchase on the switch. I hate the resolution and drop of frame rates. When it comes to first person or 3rd person shooters, I can't get passed these issues with the Switch. I'll play games like Witcher, Doom and Outerworlds on other systems or PC.
To be fair though, Witcher 3 and DOOM are somewhat decent on the Switch, definitely not as good as PC but certainly passable if you want the flexibility to play portable. I actually preferred my Witcher 3 on the Switch over my PC because I could play it anywhere, spent more time on my Switch save file than my PC in the end purely because of portability. But I dunno what on earth happened with The Outer World's, that game actually looks like a PS2 game.
And actually I just went to try The Outer World's and there was a 1.5 patch that seems to fix a lot of the texture related issues. Not sure if Wood actually updated his copy.
@@rezarfar i have not played it since the game came out for the Switch. It bothered me too much to play it again. A lot of textures and enemies would pop in and out. The resolution playing on the TV made everything worse as you noticed all the flaws with the port. I was very disappointed with my experience. But if you were able to get passed it or didn't mind it so much that is cool. It just took me out of the immersion to enjoy it.
I have Outer Worlds on PC and it’s AMAZING! I didn’t know it was on the Switch when I got it for PC, but in hindsight I’m SO glad I got it for the PC. I think I currently have 60+ hours in that game and rising fast.
@@jacksauce yeah, had I known it would run so poorly on the switch, I would have never bought the digital copy. Otherwise I would have returned the game. I'm trying to convince myself to buy the game again on PC.
Aya neo next advance was limited to a certain number of units from my understanding. That’s why they aren’t available anymore. The advance is an early model before the next and next pro come out. Luckily I got my hands on one of the advance units. I didn’t mind paying extra for the hall sensor controls, 2tb of storage, and windows installed right from the get go. I’m super excited for mine.
Me too. I have a steam deck pre ordered as well but I love I can play all of my Xbox game pass games on the next. I’ll just end up selling the one I like least as I don’t need two handhelds. I hope by the time I get my deck reviews are out and I get a idea what one I like most. I kind of hope I like the next more then I can sell my sealed deck for much more then msrp and make some of my money back on the next.
Same here! Also have a q2 steam deck preordered, think they will have slightly different use cases for me steam deck for steam games and Aya neo next for emulation and stuff that doesn’t run on the deck. I know technically most things will run on the Deck with some finagling but…. I don’t want to finagle. Hopeful long they ship the advance units soon, hyped for mine.
upgraded my aya neo 2021 to Windows 11 and don't have these window/fullscreen problems you mentioned. also the analog stick and the triggers both use hal sensors which should hugely reduces the chances of stick drift. but im just a guy on the internet so i suggest reading up on hal sensors. thanks for the video.
Really cool video, I rather try the steam deck first tho, but honestly I use my Switch more for indie games anyway and my PC for bigger games. BY THE WAY You could fix the controller thing on Dolphin by editing the .ini file on the config folder. You just have the save the controller layout, figure out what are B, X and Y called on your divice and edit the .ini file manually with a text editor. I had a similar problem years ago with a logitec controller and that is what I did to fix it.
You are amazing wood! I’ve been watching your videos for a long time now and love the content your produce! Can’t wait for the podcast to come back! It’s been awhile lol!
11:18 Aaaaalright, I'm gonna need a colab between BeatEmUps and Abroad in Japan after "Journey Across Japan's" theme song kicked in. Something I never knew I needed...
Im sure that somebody has mentioned it down here by now, but you could probably have used a bluetooth keyboard to type on the console, still a terrible solution for a portable system. But once you have all your accounts set up I wonder how much you would really need the keyboard for games. Really cool review. Keep it up :D
The thing is: for mobile gaming if have my switch, else for 1.4K I can buy a great pc and have fun with that thing. I don’t see a good point of it, especially since pc games look on pc better anyway.
I mean 90% of the Switch’s library is on Steam already, so “pc games” can be great portably too. But yeah, the price is nuts. Glad the Steam Deck is only $399.
@@CaptainEffort I won’t say 90% but ye a lot of indie games are even better handheld, what I mean with pc games is those high graphics games. If you want to play indie games anyway you don’t need to buy an steamdeck. Yk?
@@r-jthecookie3126 There are hundreds more indie games on Steam than on the Switch, so I’d argue it might be even better for Indies. I mean didn’t you guys like, just get Omori?
@@r-jthecookie3126 Port, wdym? They’re all on pc first, it’s the switch that gets the ports. And yes, 99% of games coming out nowadays have controller support on pc, unless they’re built to be used with a mouse and keyboard. But in that case they won’t be coming to the Switch. Not to mention the Deck has trackpads so even without controller support it’s not an issue
because of the thing you mentioned at around 18:00 with the controller, maybe try using steam in big picture mode, and configuring the controller in the settings in the steam big picture mode before trying to use it anywhere else. (could maybe even fix the mapping problems in dolphin)
It isnt recognizing your secondary controller sometimes because the built in controls are controller one, basically acts as a 360 controller always plugged into USB. You have to get a third party program to shut off the internal controls to map the extrernal controller as player 1, once youve got it its not as bad as it sounds, just flip the icon in the taskbar to on.
@@tonygomez5226 I’m good. I don’t want to spend 10 minutes to 50 minutes just trying to get a game to turn on in a clunky OS that isn’t built for the form factor. I want to pick it up and play games, and that is it. And if I wanted to play what you are saying, I’d just play on my PC.
@@tonygomez5226 sure, me too. What I don’t like is 70-120 minute battery life, needlessly complicated UI interactions, games not working, DRM restrictions, etc. These handheld PCs have always been garbage in the actual experience of using them. I’m hoping with the steamdeck and steamOS, it’ll really start pushing this form factor forward, but as it stands, it has nothing on the convenience, battery life, and general accessibility of the switch.
Despite the price that is above what most general people would want to throw in. That's half a month's salary for some people. BUT it does set a standard for Nintendo and Steam for making portable consoles that are not only affordable but good. Portable will always seem to be inferior to a full PC and consoles but with the technology we have, you can have pretty good PC quality in a portable form but the price so companies need to balance the price and quality.
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My theory as to why some games are not recognizing your external controller is because it's seeing it as a controller for player 2. The controller that's built-in is being recognized as the first player controller. Don't have the Neo Next so can't say for sure, but seems like a plausible theory. See if you can disable the internal controller and then test if external controllers will start working.
For anything above like $500 I would expect it to have a 1080P screen. My old S7 phone has a 5.1" 1440P OLED screen, and it was under $700 when I got it like 5 years ago. I'd be crazy to spend over a grand for a portable console that's still just 800P. Looks cool, but just no.
Keep in mind: Driving that amount of pixels at settings/frame rates that are acceptable would require additional horsepower that a 5800u just can’t deliver. Though I agree that the pricing is pretty egregious.
With gaming you won't notice that. On switch 720 looks beautiful. It's only a thing text amd maybe video. Don't forget Switch still has an high dpi compared to most laptops.
I had the same issue when I tried to login to my Genshin Impact account, too. There's an easier work around, though. Just quit AYASpace, I mean close it completely, not just minimize. Then start Genshin Impact and when the login window pops up, just hit the "KB" button on the AYANEO Pro (on the NEXT I think it's a button combination like the big button on the lower right side + down or so on the d-pad). This way it works. If you have AYASpace opened or minimized and you press the "KB" button, the quick tool window of AYASpace is gonna pop up where you have to touch the keyboard icon on it to bring it up. Sadly it's just gonna minimize the game and open up the keyboard afterwards. That's why you have to close AYASpace completely before you hit the "KB" button on your AYANEO.
This seems far too complicated to me, it would be frustrating. I like you plug in a game cartridge in my Switch and go. So I better wait on the next Nintendo console.
Here's the thing. This thing is too expensive for its purpose. However, as a PC this thing is cheaper than mine. And mine is like the lowest out there. If they manage to sneak this thing into Mexico as a gaming pc without the expensive taxes. I think it could be a great alternative for many players. Keep in mind that Steam literally kept us out from their circle and is not selling their Steam Deck here. So yeah...
anyone else notice the johnny Depp face and hand roll whenever wood said probably not the best idea when doing the raycons ad. if youve seen pirates of the Caribbean u know what I mean
Truth is this dunks on the switch in every way except the most important one. If you want a switch it's because of the games. And if you want those games..... You need. A switch.
Yes other than also this looks ugly, has tech issues you would never get on consoles, fan is insanely loud and has a quite small screen if you're used to OLED. Oh and costs more than double. Also the issues with this kind of thing it will become a useless brick in a few years unlike consoles that are always useable if you take care of them.
Cmon, putting breath of the wild on the thumbnail and your previous connections at Nintendo was the only reason I clicked on this. I’ve seen plenty of videos on these switch-like consoles.
They've only just released the OLED model, so their next console is quite probably still 2 years out. (Plus they're selling consoles and games like hotcakes...)
@@feynxwright2117 Nintendo doesn’t sell their consoles at a loss. People are expecting the “Switch 2” to be some big leap, but I honestly doubt it’ll even be as powerful as the Steam Deck
@@CaptainEffort Times change, and technology do too. If Nintendo releases a handheld console as their next gen console, I don't think that anyone should be expecting some 4K 120 FPS handheld. On the other hand, a non handhled console could totally make sense. But Nintendo isn't known for powerful hardware but rather for their conveniant and creative consoles with great exclusives, so yeah probably not a really powerful console for Nintendo in the years to come
Bro, btw I didn’t care I was just saying no because I thought that it was possible someone else made it first, and I’m not hinting to me. Also it doesn’t matter, it doesn’t change anything outside of the world of RU-vid or RU-vid
@Livelynature I agree with you and think you could be right, but it doesn’t matter, anyone can have there own opinions so this is just them having an opinion
I'm so tired of the trend of calling all handhelds of this form factor a "switch pro". Just let them be their own two things, they are different products for slightly different markets
There's a quick button in the aya software to disable the built in controller I believe. Doing that might fix the external controller option (maybe the games are prioritizing the built in controller so you need to remove it)