After seven years, we have seen Switch controllers of all shapes and sizes. LEDs, glow-in-the-dark, Hall Effect joysticks, the novelties go on. One feature that we were surprised to see on the recently revealed Manba One wireless controller, however, was a screen. Yes, a screen. On the controller.
Could this be the Wii U 2.0? Would it fill our Dreamcast VMU nostalgia? Weeeeell... our lovely video producer Alex went hands-on to investigate.
You'll have to watch the above video for Alex's full rundown of everything that this controller has to offer, but in short, a Wii U Gamepad this ain't.
The controller offers a lot of pleasing features like remappable buttons, replaceable faceplates and those all-important Hall Effect joysticks, but the screen itself feels a little useless. Serving only the controller itself, the screen is used for settings and that's it. No fun custom displays, no game interactivity, nothing.
If, after hearing Alex's thoughts, you want to find out more about the controller, you can do so on the Manba website where it is currently available to pre-order for $69.99.
What do you make of this screen controller? Let us know in the comments.
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As inexpensive as adding the screen might've been even though I seriously doubt that's the case, why not implement something more useful instead of it or just avoid it and make the controller cost less?
This would actually be pretty cool for a Switch Advance Pro Controller
This reminds me of that one imaginary ALL controller that was on Kickstarter one time which also had a screen but never came to fruition.
Kinda wish they made a wii u controller to replace the gamepad.
Regular Pro Controllers and PowerA controllers are expensive enough as it is (and PowerA's build quality being rather flimsy) without adding a screen to it.
I'm expecting someone to run Doom on the thing.
@Serpenterror I was thinking the same thing.
I believe some of the controllers shipped out for the All Controller though, but I could be wrong, seeing as it has been ages since that fiasco and the few YouTube videos there were about it were taken down because of the backlash. If some controllers did start to be sent out, it was a very small number.
Buttons are backwards. It's useless.
@Nua It probably was, it was also disappointing cause the people who made that controller never sent early prototype of the controller to gamers for review. It would had help the product get more attention and also get feedbacks on what to improve but as we all know nothing ever came out of it. The backers who did got their controller either was too disappointed and threw them away or they were under NDA and can't review em.
@Toshiro_Baloney Good eyes, I can't believe they didn't notice that. Imagine playing Super Mario Bros. Wonder and wonder why the jump button is different.
Removed - unconstructive feedback
@Serpenterror @Toshiro_Baloney
One man's "useless" is another man's "The point of the controller in the first place is using the screen for full customization... including fully controlling which buttons do what."
Edit: Yeah... the thing where while you are customizing the darn thing, the inputs are still being read by the console is an instant deal breaker. Hopefully they fix that in an update.
Upgraded all my PS5 and Nintendo Controllers with HallEffect Sticks and don't want to go back.
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