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The Nintendo DS light fits comfortably in a pocket on the other hand and had great games made for it that took advantage of that platform's featureset (I person
by asdff 2y ago
The Nintendo DS light fits comfortably in a pocket on the other hand and had great games made for it that took advantage of that platform's featureset (I personally think the legend of zelda games for that platform have some of the best controls out of any handheld nintendo game with the stylus gestures). Clunky peripheral is from a lack of imagination not from a technological impossibility.
- cubefox 2y agoThe Nintendo DS didn't need any peripherals, in contrast to smartphones, so this comparison seems misplaced.
- asdff 2y agoNot really. Apple could design a pretty clean peripheral if they wanted to and it probably would be about as thick as the nds was. The iPad keyboard is a good model of how that might look, secured on a magnetic attachment perhaps able to be folded into different orientations. Like I said, little imagination however has taken place in this sector. Apple is content to take their 30% cut off the whale gamblers. The iOS game market is certainly massive enough where that zero overhead rent seeking on the part of Apple is quite lucrative, apparently in 2022 almost $50 billion were spent on ios games alone. $15 billion to Apple thanks to their pizzo.
- robotnikman 2y agoI remember when Sony released the Xperia Play phone a decade ago, with a built in slide out controller. Something like that would be great to have, but maybe instead as a peripheral that clips onto the back on your phone. Wouldn't be much thicker than the battery cases that are common now.
- SSLy 2y agolike those? https://www.razer.com/mobile-controllers/xbox-cloud https://www.razer.com/mobile-controllers/xbox-cloud
- Dylan16807 2y agoThere are plenty of clip-on controllers. But I haven't seen any that even approach the pocketability of joycons.