Can The Razer Phone Beat the Nintendo Switch By GreaterThanPie

Recently, as in about a week and a half ago, there were rumors of razor, releasing their very own Nintendo Switch killer. There was a patent that showed what looked to be a tablet with joy, cons that attached to the side of it. Much like the Nintendo Switch turns out, though, if you dig through the patent, it's actually for their phones and controllers that would attach to the side of their phone now. Many outlets who reported on the switch killer ah honestly believe that razor doing an Android based game console could possibly topple the Nintendo Switch. Now I. Don't doubt the merits of cell phone gaming.

In fact, I've been coming around to it quite a bit, but for $20 we can really see this is actually going to be a switch killer or not so before me and, as I said, we have really $20 of things that people most likely won't have and then an Xbox controller. You only need any Bluetooth controller. So if you have a PlayStation 4 this work just as well, hopefully we're going to actually try this out now, because I'm not 100% sure. If it's going to work, as you can imagine in this process of getting this to any sort of Nintendo Switch like quality, is to pair our controller, to of thumb. Now that do so is pretty straightforward.

You just simply assign it in Bluetooth and now the controller can control the phone cool. Now those two are going to stay synced until I tell them. Otherwise, it's one interesting side effect here. So we can just simply get our little grip thing, and one downside for sure is that the Razor phone, the button, then unlock it. It's right there, alright, and now I'm on the volume switch.

So that's not good, so we're going to have to offset everything ever so slightly I. Think of the way I had. It was probably better. This way, all right, not bad, not to that's a deal-breaker but definitely not desirable, but we can still set it up like this. That's pretty swish like it's got its own kickstand.

So with that, we should be able to launch a game and layaway. So, let's pick a game that should have controller support, Minecraft, alright, so this game should have controller support out of the box. Would you look at that? It does so we're playing Minecraft. Why not? And that feels just like the Xbox okay, so this one has full compatibility. It's mainly the apps I'm worried about.

So let's go ahead and pick another game that has controller support on another platform. I hope it had the right game. Yes, I did alright, so this game is called news. ? I actually have it on my PC, and it has controller support off the back holy crap. That was loud.

Let's go ahead and mute it just because I don't necessarily okay, so it looks like this is working. Alright, alright, let's just go to a basic song: because I can't listen to it. So it's going to be entirely off of now. If I remember correctly default, left and right triggers were my triggers. Do nothing alright! Alright, let's look I got nothing.

The game itself is running just fine, but the controller is not well, then that disappointing, okay, so again another game with no controller support off the bat, even though it probably should all right. So let's go ahead and just close out of it. So, as you can see, our big problem here is very few of these games actually are set up to work with controller. This Pok?mon Go and, as you can see, I can't do anything now I kind of expected that, because this is not the kind of game that should have controller support, but the other two should have, so we're going to try something called key mapping. Oh, we got it.

We did it. We totally remap this game. Okay, so now we've got a game running that didn't have controller support out of the box now with controller support, and all we had to do is do something Shady so interesting, all right. So now that we got that part figured out, and you've got a grip, we can sort of play it on the go. Let's see if we can get this thing on the TV all right.

This part. It's actually going to be pretty easy to see if this works plug this dongle into here, and then we plug this into here, then we turn on the TV and hope that it displays out power at least okay. What are you wanna, HDMI one, that's where you're supposed to be, and would you look at that? My phone is on the TV and let's go to that same game that we've already done the login for well, it sort of works definitely way. So it's a couple of days after I ran my little experiment there, and I needed this time to process this. You see we hit our success conditions.

We could use a controller on Android, and we could dock it to a TV. We could essentially get it to the point that I would start acting like a Nintendo Switch, but the lack of controller support became a serious issue, and we could use octopus to get controller support on to games that didn't have it. But octopus itself became an issue. You see, octopus, what it does in order to make your phone think that you're tapping when you're pressing buttons is it, creates a virtual machine that then runs a mirrored version of your phone and wherever that server is in the world, it will actually cause latency. In fact, actually that latency was so intense at times that I honestly found it unusable.

I would not recommend using octopus in order to do what I did to get games to work, and Nintendo games have such strong DRM that they prevent the use of a virtual machine to play their games. So in many ways it didn't work, but it did work. It was a success. Yet the overall objective failed, and I was seriously thinking about this for a while. The problem isn't the hardware, but rather development, so the thing holding smartphones back from being the console killer, that the media believes that they could be is the content, the games that are being made for it.

They are just not capable of matching the level of detail, the level of complexity, the controls of a game made for either consoles or the PC. Now we were able to stream from this PC to the smartphone ?, some little hiccups, mainly if there's a differential and resolution things go wrong. So switching the resolution to one closer made it less of a problem and I do have the hardware to stream inside this house, but that is limited me see if I wanted to dock my phone to the TV and then streaming I'd actually get a better result from the steam link that I already own, because then I could take advantage of the full gigabit network. Connectivity and I could have virtually no latency inside my setup. If I did it that way versus the phone, which is still going to be limited, my phone can do 500 megabits a second, but I am still limited over the Wi-Fi.

When I do things like streaming from my PC, which only means that things like Stadia would actually benefit from a hard line over Wi-Fi. So could this then become a Stadia thing? Could Stadia change the way that the smartphone works and yes and no is a pretty accurate answer for that, unless smartphones have the ability to be plugged in via Ethernet I highly doubt, that Stadia will make that big of a difference, so I have to say our smartphones capable of being a Nintendo Switch killer is resounding. No, although they are close to the capabilities of the switch, they are nowhere close to the actual experience of it. Thank you guys for watching Wolfe.

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