“Why don't you just use a controller with your phone?”

There are so many options for using a controller with your phone these days. A lot of the great ones are 3D printed prototypes at the moment. The Razer Kishi line has some of my favorite retail controllers, the latest being the Razer Kishi Ultra, which is a bit overkill...

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[disky]

If I have to remove a case, that's a dealbreaker.

[majestyzx]

The worst part about games that are in the app store specifically is that a ton of them don't even offer controller support as an option.

[woozi]

Cell phone controllers being more expensive than console controllers will always be funny to me.

[icestar]

We need a modern Sony Ericsson Xperia Play. A major manufacturer building a slick powerful device with built in controller would be perfect.

[tomiraiku]

I took a phone I no longer use for calling and what not, bought a Gamesir G8 controller, setup a frontend on the device, and now it's a portable gaming handheld for when I go somewhere and I can just play a lot of games on the go without having to lug around some consoles and handhelds.

[GoroOno]

Been using a Gamesir X2 Pro with an S23 Ultra for over a year, it takes less than ten seconds to attach. Works flawlessly, and the phone can emulate anything pretty much.

[BasharZapen]

I have a Chinese controller [BSP D9] that natively mimics the signal of PS, Xbox, and switch controllers. So, it's perfect for remote play. I recently got an Android phone [Redmagic 9 Pro] specifically for emulation with Dolphin and Yuzu. This setup allowed me to play Nintendo games for the first time, and it has been serving me great.

I never take the Android phone or the mobile controller out of the house, so the bulkiness is not an issue for my use case. But in general, mobile [emu] gaming has never been better!

[Downhuman]

Probably should've mentioned that Game Pass and Geforce Now will also run just fine with your phone using these devices. In fact, the original Kishi had a version specifically branded with Xbox controller buttons so that it could be used with Game Pass. It works surprisingly well, too.

[Temmie_gaming]

Back in 2018 or so 14 year old me played Mario kart 64 on my pixel on the plane with my Bluetooth controller and lemme tell you that was freaking amazing

[RenardoRiley]

Sony fixed that problem years ago with the Experia play

[jamesramos]

Other pluses of the Backbone is that the triggers are analog, the and you can plug a usb-c cable into the passthrough port and connect the other end into any device and it will work as a wired controller. So if you travel with other, larger devices, you can still use the same controller.

[dmr]

love the dsi background music at the start 😩🤌✨

[majajatasi]

Hall Effect is not a buzzword like Ai
it means that it will not drift
some people are upset with the fact that normal controllers will eventually drift especially if you spend +100$ on a pro / ultra whatever controller ( i had a ps5 controller that started drifting immediately after the return window closed and that did upset me a lot )
and Hall Effect controllers do solve this problem
and personally i will never buy a controller that doesnt have Hall Effect Analogs and Hall Effect Triggers
no more headaches for me

[Seen]

Bob really channeling his dad with that ad read

[Hightierian]

here a solution. Remember those sliding phones? like the sony erikson. Could we go back to that. Phones are powerful enough they just need physical buttons built in.

[bigpboy]

There was a company that released a Joy-Con grip that can also hold a phone in landscape mode. It was designed for the Nintendo Switch Online app, which only began to support landscape mode within the last year.

[Vntilator]

Controller on phones are pointless when 99% of developers refuses to add controller support.
Around year 2010 there were a lot of games with controller support, and it went downhill after that.

[victorlowe]

Razer finally learned that offset controls are more comfortable than vertical joycon layout

[thHourFilms]

07:59 Where's Sony with the Xperia Play 2 when you need them?

[AndreasKingMedia]

I feel like the reason you don't understand the market for that controller is because you HAVE all those other handhelds. Plenty of people have expensive and powerful phones because of carrier subsidies, but no gaming handhelds at all. In that case, it seems pretty easy to justify spending under $200 on an attachment for your phone instead of spending even more money on a handheld that will STILL be substantially less powerful than a modern top of the line smartphone. On top of that, if you're the kind of person who upgrades your phone every few years, you get to bring your controller along with you even more powerful device.