Once again, good design eludes iPhone gaming controller creators

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

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What’s so hard about this, guys? I mean, obviously you can’t make a controller that works with all the games out there, but if you make a good, cheap, basic one, plenty of developers will add a control option that accommodates it. Instead, we get garbage like the Game Grip and this plastic Batarang-looking thing.

Look. You have a handle, some buttons… here, I’ll save you the trouble of hiring a designer:
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How’s that look? Doable? My god, can it really have taken three years for something like this to come out?

[via Engadget]

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