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GameSir’s caller smartphone controller features buttons and colors styled aft the Game Boy’s. | Image: @yoshivesmovie / X
Over the past play astatine the Tokyo Game Show, GameSir demonstrated a caller controller that turns your smartphone into a Game Boy. Unlike the company’s GameSir G8 Plus that offers akin functionality by clamping connected to the apical and bottommost of a telephone turned sideways recreating the ergonomics of the Nintendo Switch, this caller controller is overmuch smaller and keeps the telephone vertical. GameSir didn’t marque immoderate ceremonial announcements of what the accessory is called, what it volition cost, compatibility, oregon erstwhile it volition beryllium released.
Although the accessory is disposable successful the inheritance of a photo GameSir shared of its TGS booth connected X, amended photos were shared by the X account, @Yoshivesmovie, aft getting the accidental to spell hands-on with the controller. The C-shaped accessory slides connected to the bottommost of a smartphone and features a D-pad, Start and Select buttons, and 4 enactment buttons that are each styled aft the Game Boy’s. There’s besides a brace of further look buttons positive enarthrosis buttons connected the backmost ensuring it tin beryllium utilized to play much than conscionable emulated Game Boy titles.
It’s not known however the controller volition link to a smartphone, but the photos look to amusement a cutout connected the bottommost that whitethorn support a phone’s charging larboard accessible. If the accessory isn’t relying connected a USB-C connection, it volition astir apt usage Bluetooth which besides means it volition person its ain rechargeable battery. Having yet different accessory to retrieve to complaint isn’t ideal, but the ergonomics look overmuch amended than the precocious announced Retro Handheld Console Case for the Xiaomi 17 bid smartphones that lone works with the camera bump surface connected the backmost of the phone.
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