Michael Pick, “The casual engineer” which builds curiosity on YouTube had a small problem with the Nintendo Switch: ‘It’s really easy to lose,’ he says. So he corrected it in a way. In a big manner.
Here’s more than six times the size of a real Nintendo switch, here’s the largest Nintendo switch in the world, and yes, all of its buttons and joysticks work. You can watch Pick play Mario Kart 8 Deluxe in, uh, “portable” mode – notice how he covers the A button to accelerate with his forearm while using his entire hand to drive with the enormous Joy-Con.
What’s the fun of this video of course if Pick is not going to show everyone how he made the controllers work? If we peek into the blue Joy-Con, we see that he has set up a system of servos and in fact creates a large puppet system that manipulates a real, teenage Joy-Con inside. The switch (displayed on the large 4K LED screen) is also located here.
The console is 30 inches long and 70 inches wide and weighs 65 pounds. Don’t worry, it’s playable with a (non-giant) Nintendo Switch Pro Controller that Pick uses to ship Fortnite player Manwell65, who is the first to be eliminated in the game (or any one) via Giant Nintendo Switch.
Not that Pick will take it by bus to play Fortnite – it’s a gift to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, with a branch in Huntsville, Alabama, where Pick is an aerospace software engineer. Kids will probably use the Pro Controller if they want to play, but surely everyone who sees it will knock all the buttons just to see what it looks like. I shall.