iPod touch Why no game controller?

[puffnstuff]

The closest we ever got was the iControlpad but who knows what ever happened to that.

If the iPod touch is such a gaming platform why is it that there has yet to be any news of a gamepad coming out? Is Apple preventing it from happening?

 

[csnplt]

With the new API's in 3.0 and higher, someone could make a new game controller, and then release their own API's for that new device. Then, game developers could include the necessary code to interface with the new controller, and it could become standard among many games. Someone should look into this.