I just found a way to cheese the the vessel switching in ksp console

[asap1]

so my dad was sending a small crew transport to his space station and he got within several hundred meters so I tell him to use the lowne lazy method of docking and then I see something he switches hit square on the docking  port he's targeting and aims his camera there and his cursor crosses over an eva hatch so I had an idea what happens if you eva a kerbal like this well as it turns out when you eva the kerbal it take control of said kerbal and then if one was to cause said kerbal to board a vessel it causes the kerbal to take control of said vessel bassicaly switching  to said vessel without a lengthy loading screen

[InfernoSD]

Sorry to ruin this for you, but there's already an easy button combo to switch between nearby vessels in the console version. I think it's L1+Left or Right on the d-pad. That's with the radial control setting, so it may be different if you picked one of the other control settings.

There's actually a ton of controls you'll probably never learn about if you don't hear about them from someone. A few more are R1+Triangle to focus active part action windows and L1+left stick and L1+R2/L2 for RCS thrusters.