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iPhone/iTouch input peripherals- a possibility?

SamSam Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Games and Technology
I originally had the idea of a swivel dock with a keyboard with a charging battery or powered by the phone battery. I thought it would be great if a word processing app ever came out, as well as for typing online.

Then when I saw how problematic it is to design a decent igame and thought, why not a joypad peripheral? It would connect at the datacharge port on the bottom, and in landscape format the games would use the appendages on either side like a psp , while also retaining touch/gyro controls where workable. Such a peripheral would have to be easily collapsible, but it doesn't seem at all impossible to make.

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  • Milky28Milky28 Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Something like this?

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  • SamSam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Definitely a step in the right direction, except the dpad looks shit, and it doesn't look like devs will be coding anything for it. Apple needs to get behind such a peripheral.

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  • SamSam Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Definitely a step in the right direction, except the dpad looks shit, and it doesn't look like devs (apart from emulator teams) will be coding anything for it. Apple needs to get behind such a peripheral.

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