The Nintendo Switch has been a huge success, so it's no surprise that it's beginning to inspire a number of other devices Like this guy right here, the Morphus X300

This is a Android gaming tablet, which at first glance you might think is any other tablet out there But where you begin to see the inspiration is with these right here Attachable controllers which don't exactly use the same kind of mechanism as the Switch, but the idea is there Now obviously, this is not the exact same thing as a Switch It doesn't have its own library of games, and it's not exactly as easy to use right from the get-go

It is mainly, primarily a tablet that just kind of adapts some of the elements of the Switch, along with a couple of other things, too One of the other things that this thing pushes is that it supports Naked Eye 3D, meaning you don't have to use any glasses or anything and you're able to view some 3D content and it'll actually look 3D from just the screen itself Now on paper this all sounds kind of cool so far and you might be thinking, "Oh, this thing must have a lot of power to do all this" Not really Spec-wise, it's actually weaker than the Switch pretty much across the entire board

And despite being a larger tablet in screen, it's actually basically the same resolution They advertise that it's, oh, a million pixels, which sounds cool and all, but that's just 800p, it's barely better than 720; to the naked eye, basically the same thing So with all that on the table let's go ahead and set this guy up to play some games and see what the experience is like While we wait for this guy to start up, I will say one thing right away, I'm not actually playing any games yet, but these controllers are not comfortable At all

It's like the kind of general idea of how a Joy-Con works, except they're a lot larger, and doesn't really have any kind of comfortable grip design to it at all Like it kind of goes in a little bit here, but you kind of have to weirdly grip it almost like a vice, to where you can get your thumbs to reach all the buttons and everything So we're running into technical difficulties because I can't even connect to our WiFi 'cause, for whatever reason, the keyboard does not want to show up Great start Before we get to any games, let's go ahead and try out the 3D stuff on this guy

Looks like that jet's really flying at me It's kind of the same idea as a 3DS, where it just adds depth to the screen, basically Like there's almost two layers It's weird 'cause it keeps getting confused, I think, between which controls to use with the touch screen and which controls to use with the controllers Like it wants to override

You'd think you would just allow it to use both controllers at the same time, so you can switch between them fluidly Alright, I think I'm in an infinite loop of the video not working, 'cause it'll freak out for a second after I hit play and then just goes back to the same stalled screen Whose idea was this? That was Jon's There we go, alright, I've got it playing But it's just giving me two images side by side, it's not actually giving me 3D

You know, let's just play some games First, let's check out a game that was one of the ones that's actually from the Morphus store Like, they have a dedicated store for what games they recommend you play this with So here's some Cartoon Network soccer game So it's currently telling me to put the tablet in landscape, which it is

It's also playing the music for the game I think it crashed, or I think it's just stuck Let's try a different game And let's start with Sonic That's a name I know

Are we so cheap that we didn't buy the ad-free version of Sonic? I can jump, but I can't move Oh, I can't use the stick? I have to use the dpad? That's annoying Also the stick is like that PSP style where it just kind of slides around It's not very comfortable Alright, hooray, I am at least playing a game now

(laughs) This is a significant improvement Okay, so I mean once you actually get through a lot of layers of things not working at all, once you're actually able to get a game to work, as simple as Sonic is, I mean this works pretty well so far Like I said, the controllers aren't great, but I am successfully moving Sonic and doing things That's a step in the right direction So another way that this thing is kind of like the Switch is that it does support being able to hook up to a TV

It just has a mini HDMI at the bottom, so if we hook it up, it should go to our TV screen Let's try that out Oh my God, it actually worked Okay, I half expected that not to happen Alright, let's try it

It seems a little more weirded out, like there's definitely a delay And that's not; it's not like a Switch where it's going into a different mode, and runs better It's just taking the same image, which is still being shown on this screen, and blowing it up on here So, it works, it's just still not great By the way, if you're curious about this awesome white and blue Switch we've had in the background of today's video, this was actually made possible by dbrand

They've released a whole bunch of awesome skins you can get for your Switch for the dock itself, the Joy-Cons, or the main body, in a number of different colors, or in this awesome cool white (loud exhale) So obviously trying this guy out didn't go super great And that's just the stuff that we were able to record on camera, 'cause some things took a little too long We hit the power button quite a while ago One of the things about this guy that gets really annoying is the fact that while, yeah, it's kinda cool that it has these attachable uncomfortable controllers, is the fact that none of them actually come preloaded with any kind of configurations for popular games

So, instead of buying say, a popular Bluetooth controller which might have firmware updates to support certain titles, or games that have Gamepad compatibility, Gamevice, where you can hook it on the sides of a tablet and it's designed for specific games This guy just kind of asks you to do all the work yourself So you have to launch the special app, close it, open a game, switch back to the app, put controls over it, and it's just this whole really convoluted process that there's not actually any explanation for, anywhere You just kinda have to figure it out And it wasn't fun

And yeah, once you're able to actually get everything mapped out it works pretty great, for a specific set of games where on-screen controls are that easy to just copy over and do But, compared to the ease of using, really any other product designed to do this with a pre-existing tablet, instead of an all-in-one system like this, it just, it was a lot of work for still not that great of an experience You know, especially when you figure in the cost of this thing Like I said, overall it is not as powerful as the Switch, although it does offer the 3D which is cool I mean it has all the functionalities of a tablet, yes

It does more things But for $400 (laughing) Spending $100 more than just getting a Switch, It's uh, yeah it's not great