Cyber Monday Sale Drops the Backbone Mobile Game Controllers to $65. That's a Steal - CNET

My furniture is covered with crippled controllers of each sorts, arsenic is the repurposed footwear organizer hanging disconnected a hostility barroom that holds the ones I've really enactment distant (it was an absorbing work-from-home mates of years). So erstwhile I accidental that the Backbone One, which comes successful Xbox (black) and PlayStation (white) versions, is 1 of my favorites, there's your context. It and its competitors are usually astir $100, and portion the seasonal terms for the Backbone One seems to person dropped to $75, Amazon's got it for $10 disconnected that for Cyber Monday.

It attaches to your iPhone via the Lightning connector, which is acold amended than going the Bluetooth way if you're delicate to latency, and leaves Bluetooth for your audio connection. And you tin present magic it to link to immoderate iOS instrumentality that uses the Lightning port. The switches and triggers consciousness responsive and the bundle is large for societal players, and due to the fact that it powers disconnected your iPhone you don't request to recharge it separately. It tin accommodate immoderate of the thinner cases, but not all, truthful support that successful mind.

I similar the consciousness of Razer's astir identical competitor, the Kishi V2, much successful immoderate ways -- it uses Razer's optomechanical switches -- but astatine $35 little the Backbone One is simply a nary brainer. Even astatine $25 less. The company's Android model is successful preorder for transportation by Christmas, but sadly astatine its archetypal $100 price.