XIM APEX Keyboard Mouse Controller Adapter Converter for PS4 PS3 Xbox One Xbox 360

What XIM APEX does is amazing, but it also begs the question "why spend money on consoles and XIM APEX instead of getting a PC?"PS4 Pro + XIM APEX + 1 year of Playstation Plus = $645.GTX 1060 Gaming PC (~30% faster and 10x better than PS4 Pro) = $750.The good:What XIM APEX does is operate as a "man in the middle" for USB connected console controllers, pretending to be your controller in a way that the console doesn't know is happening. My limited experience with it so far is that it works pretty well, but I did have some weird issues not registering simultaneous key-presses on my USB connected keyboard. I'm not yet sure if it's an issue with XIM, the keyboard itself, or what the console will accept. I'm going to do some testing.The XIM APEX smartphone configuration UI, especially in advanced mode, is very powerful. It lets you map mouse/keyboard to controller actions, and you can make several different mode pages per game. These can either be operated by the in-game keybinds, or custom toggle/hold mode keys. For example, when I hold my in-game (ping) key to bring up the APEX Legends ping spin-menu, my XIM APEX config automatically switches to a different mode, which has a custom mouse-response curve, to make operating the spin menu feel "natural" on the mouse, as well as bind the mouse buttons to operate menu confirm/cancel. It's pretty amazing that this just works seamlessly, whenever I hold my ping key.Their advanced configuration UI is much more confusing than it could be, and means they can't ship "default" configs which use all these fancy features. For example, when I have a game-button related config, such as making the mouse work differently when I hold the ping hotkey, XIM doesn't know the two are connected. One is a button mapping, the other is just a custom mode page.. If XIM knew that the custom mode page was related to the button mapping, then it could ship with that custom page already setup in the default config, and whatever I changed the button mapping to would automatically activate that mode page. This isn't a huge deal, it just makes the out-of-the-box experience more complicated than it could be.The bad:The big problem is, why are we using XIM APEX to begin with? Using mouse and keyboard requires a desk, which begs to ask, why are you not just putting this money into a PC gaming setup instead?$400 for a PS4 Pro, $125 for a XIM APEX, and unless you're only playing F2P games like Fortnite and APEX Legends, you get to pay $120 a year in idiotic console online multiplayer fees on top of that... and for what? To get super-pixelated 1080p on a device that can't run a real web browser, can't run PC games, can't alt-tab during the game, and where the translated mouse feels like a sluggish mess compared to the PC version.The PS4 Pro GPU is said to be a bit slower than a GTX 1060, with a CPU that is underpowered compared to a PC eqivalent. Two minutes of searching turned up a $750 GTX 1060 gaming PC at best buy, and I bet with a bit more searching I could do better. This PC will have at least 30% better gaming performance, have none of the weird XIM APEX mouse-to-controller translation issues, and be massively more usable than a console.So who is this consumer that wants XIM APEX?A kid who's going to borrow the family console into their bedroom and try to "get more serious" with mouse keyboard? A streamer being paid to promote console titles and wants every advantage? Someone who really wants to play console exclusive titles, but refuses to pick up a controller?

This thing provides near perfect performance and gives you something that's extremely, extremely close to what you would imagine it to be. For most people it'll be good enough, and that includes me. For my personal usage it's absolutely perfect. But I can see a few things about this that might gripe more experienced players.When I first obtained it, it was a bit of a pain to get working. You have to download an app and turn on Bluetooth. This is how you switch profiles. I also discovered that you can set special hot keys for certain games. Which I thought was awesome for switching between profiles (one for menu one for the game) or for playing games with multiple control schemes (like the Halo Collection)It took a bit of time to figure out how to get it working. There's a bit of a learning curve. When you do get it working you'll find that it works as well as you would expect. It comes very close to playing on a PC, but it's not exact. Because you're still playing a console game with its console game limitations.That being said, the mouse view is actually perfect to me. I had zero issues with using my mouse and aiming. It felt at home for me. I was actually playing and not struggling to keep up.I use this for the CoD games specifically. I used to play Modern Warfare 2 and 3 nearly every second of every day for a few years on PC and using this for the Xbox version of MW2 was almost perfect.This thing is amazing. I believe I got a defective product so I'll be sending it back for a replacement. The wait almost seems unbearable, I honestly can't wait to play again. This thing is amazing

The media could not be loaded. I mainly play on pc and haven't been on fps console in a good 6+ months. My brother told me Apex was coming out a few days before release and asked me to compare it to other emulators. We have used emulators since 2006. I instantly seen how good Apex was, well now my whole team switched from vx, xim4 to Xim Apex.The XIM Apex is the most complete, most responsive Xim and arguably any emulator I have used to date.They did an amazing job with the Apex, I have mine tuned absolutely perfect with the speed and responsiveness as close to pc gaming as I could get. Previous Xim emulators I felt had a mouse smoothing feel a slight delay "I'm over critical" maybe it was the 8ms polling rate or just the proprietary translator processing, I don't know. So I stuck with what I felt was the more twitchy responsive vx1, but she had a good 4 year run.I loved the very easy setup of the Apex iOs app, it really shortened the tuning process down to minutes. I had a slight issue and I got very quick support, I jumped into beta and WoW!Buy it! See you on the Battlefield*Pros*Apps tuningSupportGame libraryFastest polling rateLimitless tuning*Cons*NoneXIM Apex - Total package-----------------------------------------Vx4 - Very responsive, no iOs, setup cumbersome, vx4 and xim apex in DOOM.Apology for the poor video quality, better quality videos on yt. Take it easy and GOD Bless!