Michael Pick, “The Casual Engineer” which creates curiosities on YouTube, had a small problem with the Nintendo switch: “It’s very easy to lose,” he says. So he fixed it, in a way. On a great manner.
At more than six times the size of a real Nintendo switch, here is the biggest Nintendo switch in the world, and yes, all of its buttons and joysticks work. You can watch Pick playing Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in, uh, “portable” mode – watch how it covers the A button to accelerate with your forearm, while using your whole hand to drive with the huge Joy-Con.
Of course, what is the fun of this video if Pick is not going to show everyone how he made the controllers work? Looking inside the blue Joy-Con, we see that it set up a system of servos and triggers to essentially create a large puppet system that handles a real, tiny Joy-Con, housed inside. The switch (displayed on the large 4K LED screen) is also housed here.
The console is 30 inches tall by 70 inches wide and weighs 65 pounds. Don’t worry, it can also be played with a (not gigantic) Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, which Pick uses to dispatch Fifteen days player Manwell65, making him the first to be eliminated in that game (or any) via the Giant Nintendo Switch.
Not that Pick will take that on the bus to play Fifteen days – is a gift to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, which has an affiliate in Huntsville, Alabama, where Pick is an aerospace software engineer. Kids will probably use the Pro Controller when they want to play, but for sure, whoever sees it will hit all the buttons just to see how it goes. I could.