Gamevice Launches iPad Gaming Controller

[cateye]

"...Xbox Game Pass, GeForce NOW, Apple Arcade, Stadia, and more..."

Anyone remember that old Sesame Street song?

One of these things is not like the others,
Three of these things are kind of the same...

Stop trying to make Apple Arcade happen.

 

[oneMadRssn]

Yeah thank god iPad has good high quality non p2w console quality games.

Most remote-play or cloud-gaming works on iPad just fine. That's more than anyone can say about the Switch.

 

[Apples n' Stone]

I can 100% guarantee some of those are getting returned after someone has accidentally launched their iPad out the window whilst playing any AR games.

 

[B4U]

Any benefits of this comparing to the Dualshock 4 at this price?

 

[timber]

"...Xbox Game Pass, GeForce NOW, Apple Arcade, Stadia, and more..."

Anyone remember that old Sesame Street song?

One of these things is not like the others,
Three of these things are kind of the same...

Stop trying to make Apple Arcade happen.

When Stadia looks more like a real product you know you are really at rock bottom.

 

[GMShadow]

Apple should buy part of Nintendo and have all their games on the iPad. Nintendo games are not graphics and CPU hungry and could be run on the iPad with no problem. I know this is a stretch but a man can dream.

"I think Apple should make things worse for everyone to please me."

 

[cateye]

"I think Apple should make things worse for everyone to please me."

Or people should stop putting platform first and put games first instead. Like Nintendo games? Buy a Switch. Like PC games? Build a great PC (and enjoy the experience of learning how to do so). If by some strange twist of fate you actually like Match 3 games or infinite runners? Ho ho, then iOS is totally the place to be.

Denying yourself what you want to play because it doesn't conform to a platform is... odd.

 

[Hessian]

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Love that show. Always a great awkward British comedy scenario.. like: "Hello!!!!?!... What!?!.... I'm looking for a bathroom in the woods!!!... (looks at people standing nearby)"

Make that a giant iPad and ask people for help to reach the power on button lol

On the topic of this thread... Gaming on the iPad/iOS should be far better than it is right now. Shame Apple hasn't acquired a major studio (like EA) yet.

 

[icwhatudidthere]

I'm not trying to defend iOS gaming, it's not good either. But access to streaming games is a plus.

Switch ports are fine, good enough for the most part.

I'm psyched for the Steam Deck. Everything else is noise to me now.

Yep I got my Steam Deck about 3 weeks ago and have put so many hours into it now. So awesome!

After I traded in my iMac and switched to M1, I had no practical way to play my Steam games anymore. The Steam Deck was my Hail Mary at maintaining access to those games. Turned out to be that and more. I love being able to just pop in to a game for a few minutes and then putting it to sleep again like I do with a Switch.

The only issue I've run into is games that don't work well with the small screen, making text hard to read. It probably won't be an issue with younger eyes but it is for me.

My next item in my to do list is get my network up to snuff so I can stream games from the Deck to my Apple TVs via Steam Link reliably and at a good frame rate.

 

[_Spinn_]

Reminds me of the Nintendo Switch.

 

[Freeangel1]

A Nintendo SWITCH copy cat

Now if the games played on a TV screen like the SWITCH?

 

[turbineseaplane]

I’ve had one of these before and it was never quite comfortable to me with how much the grips can move/flex

 

[madcran]

I love my Backbone for my iPhone, but there is no way I would buy this for an iPad. The idea is to make it feel like a controller for your Playstation or Xbox, not the controller for the Jaguar.

 

[4jasontv]

Nintendo switch is 270€ in europe and you dont have any games, which are 50€ each in most cases.

Last I checked you could get a new switch for 180€ or a used one for under 150€.

I have a switch, I would rather have something like this.

The switch is good only for first-party Nintendo games. It's far too low power for anything else.

First-party Nintendo games are some of the highest-rated games available. Also, they are Switch exclusives unlike Xbox and PS games.

 

[iDento]

You get what you pay for, in general the games for the Switch are far better than the best iOS games. More content, better AI, longer play through, no micro transactions, etc.


There are a plenty of good ports brought over to the Switch. They may not be the most current release of whatever property, but they are still far better than anything iOS has to offer.

I have both a PS5 and a Switch and enjoy them both whenever I get a little downtime. And with two kids and 5-6 hockey teams to worry about, it isn't much. ?

Thanks to PS5, I’m spoiled now, I can enjoy nothing but Astro’s Playroom anymore.

 

[Razorpit]

Thanks to PS5, I’m spoiled now, I can enjoy nothing but Astro’s Playroom anymore.

This generation's Wii Sports. 😁

 

[George Dawes]

Nintendo are famous for optimising their software for supposedly underpowered hardware , less is more is definitely their adage

The amazing things they did with the snes and n64 speak for themselves

 

[Thebrochure]

Much cheaper and much more practical (not to mention more comfortable) to just buy and use an Xbox controller.

 

[The_Gream]

Personally, IPad stand and Nimbus+ controller. Cost me about the same all and all and the controller also works with my phone and computer. Maybe not great for traveling but normally I am driving so… not an issue.

 

[VictorTango777]

Love that show. Always a great awkward British comedy scenario.. like: "Hello!!!!?!... What!?!.... I'm looking for a bathroom in the woods!!!... (looks at people standing nearby)"

Make that a giant iPad and ask people for help to reach the power on button lol

On the topic of this thread... Gaming on the iPad/iOS should be far better than it is right now. Shame Apple hasn't acquired a major studio (like EA) yet.

We may see that giant iPad before MacOS gains support for external multitouch monitors, which is why those large interactive touch displays seen at many locations are not run from a Mac. Places that want to run Apple products usually resort to putting an iPad on a stand which looks primitive by comparision.

 

[CalfCanuck]

This article is bizarre. Is this a mistake? The web site links to the same old, discontinued products that have been out of stock for years. The article mentions no details to differentiate the supposedly "new" product from the old discontinued ones. It makes little sense that these products wouldn't work with the latest Apple devices.

I'm thinking someone at "GameVice" (if they even still exist?) may have hit a button somewhere and sent out a years-old press release by accident, and MacRumors reported on it as if it were new.

Not sure if you ended up at a discontinued product. It seems that items from the top menu are more current iPad 9th generation link

 

[mw360]

Weird ’news’. I had one of these about 5 years ago for an iPad Pro 9.5 inch. It was perfectly good, but destined for landfill when I upgraded to a slightly different sized iPad. Of course five years ago was when iOS gaming seemed like it might have a future.

 

[Aero Leviathan]

Not sure if you ended up at a discontinued product. It seems that items from the top menu are more current iPad 9th generation link

Thanks for this! Looks like it is real, after all. Still incredibly strange.

Significantly, these new models support clickable sticks (L3/R3), which NONE of the previous iPad models ever did. This makes them fully compatible with Xbox and PlayStation streaming.

 

[macsound1]

Its weird they dont have a version that works on the newer iPad Pros with USB-C connections

This is when I feel bad for independent companies. Great ideas but can’t move as fast as international tech giants.
Think of how long it took Panic to make the Playdate.
This company has probably been working on this product since the only iPad with Usb C was the iPad Pro, which obviously isn’t the form factor they were going after, so like 2019.

Then apple dropped the mini from using lightning, and now this company was screwed.

Probably having paid thousands of dollars in mold fees and engineered everything to the extent that they had to live through it, Covid extending everything, now they’re in really rough shape ?

 

[Labeno]

Too bad Apple won't allow native NON-touch-screen games, where a game controller is required. If they did, it would open up the path to allow for some of the best games ever created... my favorite is Hollow Knight.