Coiorvis JueYing Pro HD Mechanical Controller

Hardware Type: Controller

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Review:

(Note: This product was received at no cost for review via the Amazon Vine program.)

There are a few features that are currently rare in third-party Nintendo Switch Pro-style controllers. Amiibo functionality is one of them, and the ability to wake the Nintendo Switch 2 from sleep mode is another. The Coiorvis JueYing Pro HD Mechanical Controller, elsewhere referred to simply as the Coiorvis Controller or JY Pro, claims on its Amazon listing to have both of these features, which piqued my interest.

If you’re observant, you already know that one of these claims is false – I haven’t listed this as a Nintendo Switch 2 controller, so clearly it’s not going to wake the Nintendo Switch 2 from sleep mode (though like all controllers for the original Nintendo Switch, this will work with a Switch 2 as a Switch 1 controller). What about the rest, though?

Like many of the Pro-style controllers released for Nintendo Switch, the JueYing Pro HD replicates the general size, shape, and layout of Nintendo’s own Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, with asymmetrical analog sticks with a nicely-textured slightly concave top, along with standard face buttons and D-Pad in the usual places. The backside of the grips are nicely textured, as are sections of the L, R, ZL, and ZR buttons on top of the controller.

Both the D-Pad and face buttons are clicky in a way that makes play a bit noisy and that I don’t feel is especially comfortable, and the D-Pad lets you swap between a disc-shaped pad or a traditional plus shape, though I don’t find either of these to be very good, and I had a lot of trouble playing 2D games reliably with these, messing up moves in Fighting games more frequently than I would with other controllers.

The analog sticks are hall effect sticks, which should prevent “drift”, and they work fairly well, and I have no major complaints about them.

On the top of the controller, we have a pair of clicky L and R bumper buttons, as well as a pair of analog ZL and ZR triggers, which is nice for playing on non-Nintendo platforms, but will make play on Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 less reliable, since those platforms don’t register analog inputs on standard Pro-style controllers.

Getting back to the controller’s face, the plus and minus button are more or less in their usual spots, but now elongated at a slanted diagonal angle. The home button has been enlarged and moved to the center, which is fine, but the screenshot button has been removed completely.

There are also two new buttons on the face. One of these is for using a turbo feature, which works in much the same way as it does on other third-party controllers. The other button is a macro programming button, which I cannot for the life of me get to work – holding it down causes it to flash, and no combination of button presses seems to get it to do anything after that.

When it comes to the other standard features of Nintendo Switch controllers, this controller includes the ability to wirelessly wake the Nintendo Switch from sleep mode. The gyroscopic motion control works fine, too. It claims to have HD rumble too, though I’m a bit dubious of that claim… though with HD rumble, it’s kinda’ hard to test. And finally, yes, it does scan Amiibo figurines just fine.

Flipping the controller over to look at its underside, we have four macro buttons – by default apparently set to B and A on each side, and as I’ve noted I cannot get the macro feature to work so this is what they’re staying as. Between them, there’s a slider to change the controller from Nintendo Switch mode to Android mode or to PC mode.

Having said this, let’s talk about cross-compatibility. In addition to Nintendo Switch, the Coiorvis JueYing Pro HD works with PC, Android, and iOS. I wasn’t able to test this with iOS, but with my Android phone it worked fine. Unfortunately, I had some trouble using this controller with my PC – it refused to connect to the included USB dongle, and while it did connect via Bluetooth, there was some noticeable input lag.

Given this controller’s mid-to-high price (currently ranging from $36 to $70 depending on when and where you buy it), I expected far more from this controller. Yes, it can scan Amiibo figures, but half of its features don’t work properly, if at all. I’ve reviewed controllers that cost much less that work far better than this, and while Amiibo scanning is nice to have, I think it’s far better to have a fully-functional controller, and in so many ways, this simply isn’t.

tl;dr – The Coiorvis JueYing Pro HD is a Pro-style Nintendo Switch controller that advertises the ability to wake the Nintendo Switch 2 (it doesn’t) and scan Amiibo figures (it does), but in numerous ways it’s broken, with no screenshot button, a D-Pad that doesn’t work quite right, a macro feature that won’t work, a USB dongle that doesn’t work… for the price this controller is selling for, there should not be this many problems, and I cannot possibly recommend it.

Grade: D+

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