This is NOT what it looks like... - Megalodon Console 64

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The new DOIO Megalodon Console 64 is a keyboard that looks suspiciously like the most popular gaming handheld of the last few years, but does it also take features from it? Plouffe is here to see if this is a great keyboard/controller hybrid or if it fails at delivering in either camp.
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 This looks familiar...
0:23 Unboxing
0:46 Design impressions
4:29 Sponsor - dbrand
4:52 Bell doesn't know how to build a keyboard
5:46 Taking out a switch and customization options
7:57 Trying out the buttons and knobs
10:38 Typing test impressions
12:25 Pricing and overall thoughts
13:54 Outro

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@Juliett-A Год назад

At this point, I am convinced that half of these keyboards were manufactured solely to be reviewed by Plouffe and never actually bought or owned.

@dlog Год назад

When Nintendo sues random small to medium size youtubers for using the 50 year old SM64 soundtrack in their videos but lets a marketplace as huge as Drop to freely sell a blatant Nintendo Switch keyboard mod 🇺🇲🦅😤 Sounds about right American freedom

@muufle Год назад

@@dlog Nintendo "Anti-fun" Ninjas

@dlog Год назад

@@muufle is the Nintendo copyright department actually named Nintendo Ninjas? I think I've heard it before 😭

@leonro Год назад

@@dlog Because Nintendo often strikes people with legal action without any fuss or warning, and because both words start with "nin", their lawyers are often called "Nintendo ninjas" in online communities. In reality, they are the same old and boring lawyers you see everywhere else.

@dlog Год назад

@@leonro makes sense! Thanks for the explanation 🙂

@YT-NPC Год назад

Idk but in my opinion $230 is ridiculous. At least their main selling point (the joystick and extra buttons) should be exceptional in terms of quality and not "squishy" or meh. But the custom keyboard market is quite a rabbithole with many people who have their wallet really loose in their pocket, so I wouldnt be surprised if it still sells.

@aakashsahani2991 Год назад

they might need that money when Nintendo sues them /s

@The4valanche Год назад

Seems low for a good mech. It's priced correctly for it's market imo

@pwd1134 Год назад

You know, I like custom things up to a point. But the keyboard game is the literal biggest scam going right now lol. If you look at the price of materials that are being used for these boards versus how much they cost, your jaw would drop.

@HeretixAevum Год назад

@@pwd1134 I'm not saying that there aren't overpriced keyboards around, but come on, everyone knows that material costs are almost always a drop in the bucket when it comes to making a product and bringing it to market

@agentcrm Год назад

@@The4valanche But it's not a good board. It's a cheap one with gymicy controller sides.

@Siuolplex Год назад

I can't believe they made a sequel to that one GameCube controller!

@eddyh252 Год назад

I feel so special when people mention that controller. I remember reading about in some magazine.

@ouiVEVO Год назад

And you can actually use it on pc, and not just phantasy star online!

@Jobroski47 Год назад

@@ouiVEVO gamer moment

@breadcodes Год назад

I have one! I saw this post and was just thinking of it. I just got it this week complete in box. I posted a pic to the GameCube subreddit

@pwd1134 Год назад

*copied

@KayJay01 Год назад

imagine paying $230 for an aliexpress-grade keyboard and controller all-in-one

@frankytanky5076 Год назад

Yea these things cost like 2 cents to make probably. Garbage key caps and switches.

@polski_dezerter Год назад

@@frankytanky5076 It didn't come with keycaps and switches

@grey3264 Год назад

For those who want to see an actual use-case review of this monstrocity, RandomFrankP did a detailed review of this a few weeks ago.

@emma70707 Год назад

Which video? I just watched the last month of keyboard/room set up stuff and couldn't find it.

@grey3264 Год назад

@@emma70707 literally just search it lol, it's there I just watched it again

@jayc1622 Год назад

Had a controller keyboard combo made by logitech for the PS2 back in the day. It was made for MMOs of the time, specifically Final Fantasy XI in my case. It worked so well and the keyboard itself was removable from the controller frame so it could be used on its own. Wish mainstream companies would still make these wacky but functional peripherals. Some of these niche companies are just too hit or miss.

@McKluskie Год назад

I can't believe they think this is a finished product and a good or useful one at that

@Orphioux Год назад

200 bucks for a keyboard it was super obvious was Wish quality, somebody must be laughing all the way to the bank 😳

@xp8969 Год назад

*half of a keyboard lol

@xp8969 Год назад

@@Kiunnnn plus the cost of key caps and switches and labor to install them all 😂

@badadvice787 Год назад

This actually looks like it could work as an accessibility tool, if it had a better joystick and was lighter.

@DigitalHabit Год назад

Honestly though, I would struggle to find any reason to recommend this thing to anyone, you can get a FAR better macro pad for roughly $25-$50 (depending on location) and also use a better keyboard. My moded k552 kumara was roughly $130 after moving (this is canadian rubles) and a $50 14 button 2 dial macro pad is cheaper than that thing and far more useful

@SwitchandClickOfficial Год назад

I was so close to getting this and trying it out, but then I realized I would never use it.. like ever. But it looks cool!

@skunkwar7468 Год назад

If both sides came off like the switch and you could put different dials/buttons I’d be all in. Maybe next gen

@GameTimeWhy Год назад

Yeah that's a huge missed opportunity

@MozartTheGOAT Год назад

This is the kind of device you see in memes about controller and keyboard hybrids

@IKEACherryChair Год назад

Plouffe is clearly enjoying playing with those knobs

@evilleader1991 Год назад

Ayooooo

@toxpoint Год назад

the man likes a good nipple fiddle, who doesnt?

@umbraelegios4130 Год назад

Annnnnd ShortCircuit gets demonized.

@cadenchurchill4296 Год назад

10:56 Finally a typing test that makes me feel good about myself in comparison!

@crt5866 Год назад

Same tho 😂

@chendusingh Год назад

I wanna give this concept to teenage me so that my mom and dad wouldn't lock up my controller this is the perfect excuse bro

@chronossage Год назад

This could be really useful as a couch keyboard for a media center pc. I would still want it to work as a real controller too for the perfect all in one option.

@RisingRevengeance Год назад

There are so many good media keyboards with good trackpads that I wouldn't even consider it an option. You're right it would have some value if it was a good controller.

@carbonthief Год назад

Couch keyboard was my first thought, except, it doesn't appear to be wireless. And that joystick is pathetic. A wireless version of this that had an actually good joystick would be an awesome alternative to the crappy touchpad that's on the k400's.

@profosist Год назад

Except I don't think It's wireless, otherwise I would have already bought it.

@sebastianjost Год назад

It's also quite heavy for that use-case. At 500-800g maybe, but 1.5kg can get uncomfortable over time. It looks like it also has some rather sharp edges on the bottom that wouldn't be great on your lap

@huantian Год назад

Would've loved to see this with an actually good looking keycap set with properly sized keys 🙃

@NULLYUKI Год назад

The keycaps look identical to the keycaps on a Razer Blackwidow keyboard imo.

@xp8969 Год назад

Luckily they only give you half of a keyboard so you can put whatever keys you want on it 😂😂

@huantian Год назад

@@xp8969 that would be funny, a split keyboard you have to buy both halves separately

@xp8969 Год назад

@@huantian that's literally what this is, split the keyboard in half and you only get the bottom half

@huantian Год назад

@@xp8969 huh? sorry don't understand, split keyboard are usually split in half down the middle so you have a half for each hand

@StillShatter Год назад

I love the idea of this but it would be awesome if you could attach the movement analog stick under the space bar kind of aligned with WASD. I suck at video games on KBM and realized one day it mostly came down to having to use WASD for movement. So I butchered an old xbox controller I had laying around and made my own analog stick attachment for my keyboard and it greatly improved my gameplay!!

@blunderingfool Год назад

Lots of games will just let you use what I call "Dual input" where it lets you use two control methods at once. Halo MCC is not one of those games, infuriatingly.

@StillShatter Год назад

@@blunderingfool I haven't ran into any issues using two inputs at once in the games I play atleast. Also if the game I am playing has no controller/gamepad support at all I just use reWASD or antimicro and it works fine.

@nicolasroy8481 Год назад

Do you have any pictures or videos of that contraption? Sounds interesting

@kingzach74 Год назад

I agree. My main issue with kbm is also WASD.

@StillShatter Год назад

@@nicolasroy8481 My solution is pretty rough looking 🤣 but if you type "keyboard joystick - series 3.0 (custom color set!)" Into Google the first link that comes will show pretty much what I'm talking about just better than my Jerry riged set up 🤣 hope this helps!!

@nemtudom5074 Год назад

1:06 Yes, yes they are. The volume they occupy is like 40% of this, and i bet the weight is around that mark aswell

@doomdimensiondweller5627 Год назад

I get this vibe from this product. It's like they wanted to make it for like the meme but they were scared to commit to a full controller keyboard combo out of fear that the fanatical minimalist obsessed keyboard community would call it gimmick and boycott them. So they half committed to whatever this is.

@yoghurrt1 Год назад

2:01 I died as much as Plouffe, when he started to have fun with those knobs

@diogo22 Год назад

10:57 he says this in every video

@notDmanTV Год назад

literally just built this keyboard and other than the unclipped stabs, it went incredibly hard

@ZachBrannigan Год назад

A properly functional version of that would fit well with the Rokid glasses from yesterday's video.

@laffeybunn8557 Год назад

Slight Clarification - Outemu switches work on normal hotswap sockets (gateron, kalih, etc.) Non-outemu switches do not work on Outemu Hotswap sockets. Outemu Hotswap sockets are always 3 pin.

@poldelepel Год назад

This looks like a cool keyboard to use in a coach, on your lap with a HTPC...

@godminnette2 Год назад

If it had better build quality, I could almost see this being used as a couch keyboard. Almost. For a desk keyboard, just get a good keyboard and a good macro pad instead of a sub-par combination of the two. For a couch keyboard, a trackpad is still probably better than a joystick, but that depends on the user and configuration.

@kingzach74 Год назад

I would much prefer an analog joystick. To each their own.

@ashtonhoward5582 Год назад

@@kingzach74 that assumes a minimum level of quality for the joystick.

@RisingRevengeance Год назад

Yeah trackpads are the way to go for stuff like this. Can't replace a mouse but it's leagues better than an analog stick.

@archeralex5117 Год назад

here is an actually good idea ,the joystick detach, keyboard fuction as a charging dock, when its detached ,it can connect to pc via the same receiver for keyboard (so its more stable than bluetooth)

@HunterKiotori Год назад

If it doesn't come with switches or keycaps, you should have used a picture of it bare on the thumbnail

@TheFallingFlamingo Год назад

It's a good thing that it's not a thinner keyboard with removable joy-con like controllers. I probably would've bought that.

@Neoxon619 Год назад

I remember that GameCube keyboard controller that was released alongside PSO. I’m surprised nobody made an official keyboard with Joy-Con rails.

@RisingRevengeance Год назад

It would probably be better to just replicate the pso keyboard instead of adding joycon rails. That way you could make it ergonomic like the original with proper analog sticks.

@GameTimeWhy Год назад

@@RisingRevengeance what does "pso" stand for?

@RisingRevengeance Год назад

@@GameTimeWhy phantasy star online

@GameTimeWhy Год назад

@@RisingRevengeance oh! Thanks.

@GSBarlev Год назад

Replace the knob with a trackball and the joystick with a knob, and I will pay any amount for this. Can't understate how useful this would be for couch gaming.

@littlebit670 Год назад

It would be cool if they could have put game controllers on those sides instead of other PC controls so that you could pick up the keyboard and use it like a gamepad.

@Voyajer. Год назад

That way it can be a true successor to the Phantasy Star Online Gamecube controller

@munjee2 Год назад

"The right one is just a knob" So it exists just for PSP emulation?

@felixbelanger2659 Год назад

12:42 "I know a lot of people..." Are these people Nicholas Plouffe?

Год назад

Keep the good work Plouffe, keep going and maybe one day you will try an actually good keyboard, even if it happens by mistake.

@cmac3530 Год назад

They were so focused on if they could, they forgot to ask if they should...

@TheManicGeek Год назад

LOL the numpad caps on the top row ex dee Also to add: switches for twenty shipped (Ajazz AS Switches off Temu, factory lubed), caps for 45 + shipping (Kinetic Labs BoW or WoB double shot PBT Cherry kits), ez.

@mr_viss_ Год назад

hey @Wirtual , what is nadeo gonna do about this? it has both joysticks and a keyboard, so we can smoothsteer when we need to and a keyboard for when we dont

@ashtonhoward5582 Год назад

But the joystick is a mouse in disguise. And a terrible one at that. You're better off using a mouse to get your 40% steer than this abomination.

@DamnObama Год назад

I love the title lol.

@dothetontim Год назад

DO-I-O seems like a reasonable pronunciation of a name that is likely derived from 'Do Input Output'. I guess we don't call keyboards I/O devices anymore (obviously they're usually Input only).

@ThaFedejp Год назад

This remind me of a PS2 controller/keyboard I had as a kid... Never played online PS2 games, though 😅

@PhantomPhoton Год назад

How do you do an entire review of a keyboard that has controllers attached to the sides, and not play any video games with it?

@aaron9306 Год назад

That backspace key...

@natuski5263 Год назад

This reminds me of the GameCube controller with an integrated keyboard

@ChristianStout Год назад

Finally, a weapon to surpass the Phantasy Star GameCube controller.

@Marco-vp8wl Год назад

The thumbstick would be great for e.g. in gta while driving

@CLabmusic Год назад

So impressive. Just think of all the game you CAN'T play on this because of the lack of a left thumbstick😂

@8Pit Год назад

Gamecube: "Watch me"

@ThaEurasian Год назад

I refuse to believe you can play anything but phantasy star online with it

@fewiip Год назад

i think maybe it can be useful for an artist because the extra buttons

@dctaken Год назад

I would buy one if the side buttons were bigger and better, sized like an actual controller. Or just make a keyboard with switch like rails to add the controllers. I don't mind using them when i want to use a controller.

@ReikazeRambles Год назад

Learning it's not a real controller ruined my day

@dekion261 Год назад

@1:59: Tune in Tokyo!

@flubba86 Год назад

Looks like its based on the chinese GK64 board. I have a GK64, it is a 64% board with exactly the same layout with the weird shift sizes.

@supersammos Год назад

The drup goes hard! Where did you get that dope as hat?

@ryanlawrence3690 Год назад

I think Plouffe just made me realize my goofy threshold. He's so goofy makes me wanna punch him...

@Schwuuuuup Год назад

It is exactly what it looked like

@RisingRevengeance Год назад

Wow thats some prime ewaste you got there!

@xp8969 Год назад

Yeah but (slaps case) you can fit so many keys in this bad boy (keys not included)

@pacitoman9721 Год назад

So it's EXACTLY what it looks like

@Paradigmfusion Год назад

Clearly you never played FFXI on the PS2 with that logitech controller/keyboard combo.

@Faeskis_1 Год назад

I'm not sure why they just did joy to mouse when QMK has gamepad support

@robertsharp1511 Год назад

awwww i was hoping it was real!

@saladgreens912 Год назад

I can't imagine who would want to own this, let alone buy it.

@Metal_Maxine Год назад

This almost looks like a troll device created by dbrand robots to torment keyboard reviewers.

@Nbec95 Год назад

Absolutely would love to have a real controller keyboard. From time to time I'm considering building it myself.

@amesh5318 Год назад

That hat is fire where did you get it??

@justinbouchard Год назад

5'7" on a good day 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@rockandrollrockandrollrock6930 Год назад

If your going to do it. Especially at this price point. Why the heck would they not just make this function the way your making it looks like it does. Novelty item or not. I can’t imagine it would have cost all that much more to make this actually functional. Which is where I imagine most draw the line between “oh that’s cool if your into it” and “who the hell would buy this??”

@GingerBradMan21 Год назад

its RGB but the keys aren't see transparent tho.

@finsarg Год назад

I want my keys to light up as i press them. Is that a thing?

@GameJunctionMedia Год назад

Very interesting lol. Great video!

@powerviolence29 Год назад

I would buy a keyboard if you could put a hot swap analog stick in place of the wasd buttons

@Pacoj24 Год назад

All Metal Keyboard part 2 on this board? Anyone? Imagine lugging that thing around.

@smallbutdeadly931 Год назад

This seems like a good idea until you actually think about using it You're better off just having your controller and keyboard separate

@mrducky179 Год назад

it would be so much cheaper to have the latter as well

@squidwardo7074 Год назад

>This seems like a good idea until you actually think about using it That goes for just about anything with custom keyboards

@kingoftherevolution4855 Год назад

Reminds me of a certain gamecube controller

@mp2863 Год назад

as a hopeless keyboard addict, i felt obligated to correct plouffe here. GMK keycap sets are not a good example of a brand that includes non standard layout keycaps in their base sets. Akko sets would be a safer buy if your concerned about short shifts or a large variety of 1U caps.

@Thewaterspirit57 Год назад

This reminds me of that ridiculous gamecube controller that has a full keyboard 😂

@blip-hn6is Год назад

as a PC gamer? keyboard or controller? what kind of question is that

@cheesetoast99 Год назад

This cured my insomnia

@mateo_onesey Год назад

time to start playing blue burst.

@CoreDreamStudios Год назад

Always wanted a controller with nipples. 🤣

@oliver_3185 Год назад

I only watch these for plouffes shirts

@FranklyPeetoons Год назад

$1 keyboards from Goodwill are perfectly okay and nothing more expensive makes sense. I type at 8 to 15 words per minute.

@thehorsefromGOTs8 Год назад

its like all the down sides of mid 2000s gaming keyboards but none of the up sides.

@xp8969 Год назад

Minus the actual keys lol

@gameface6091 Год назад

I like a good see-through bottom, sure.

@on99kfc Год назад

JUST OPEN VIA AND CHECK THE LAYOUT LOL

@SyxxFtH8 Год назад

Neat!

@jumpman120 Год назад

"But why" meme

@Imxlnt2 Год назад

who needs a switch 2 when you got a pc

@Izrail- Год назад

YES

@BluishGreenPro Год назад

Given the poor quality of the extra buttons, I can’t believe how much their charging. And you can move the cursor, but they didn’t map some of those buttons to click!?