Ion, the maker of the famous Icade-iPadcontroller, today announced three new game controllers: the Icade Mobile, Core and Icade Icade Jr.. The Icade Mobile for iPhone owners particularly interesting because it turns your iPhone into a zakspelcomputer. This allows for a number of games hardware buttons at your disposal. Icade the core is in turn a new revision of the traditional Icade while Icade Jr.. a smaller version of the original made for the iPhone and iPod touch.
The Icade Mobile must now compete in an increasingly crowded market, so it is with the iControlpad much longer possible to iOS games with real buttons and play with Gametel announced that their controller now works with IOS. Last December 60beat even reported to have a controller that plugs into the audio port on your iPhone . Probably the Mobile Icade therefore largely dependent on its design: you pinch your iPhone is because the middle, making it mostly resembles the Game Boy Advance. The controller has four regular buttons, two shoulder buttons and a directional pad. The iPhone is running in the middle, so you can play games in portrait mode. The Icade Mobile will end up costing $ 80.
Icade The Core is a new revision of the original Icade that your iPhone, iPhone and iPod touch is an arcade cabinet. The case containing the iPad coated is exchanged for a simple clip, which you iDevice in portrait or landscape mode drop. How much will this cost is not known.
The third newcomer, the Icade Jr.. Is an extra small variation of the original Icade. With only four buttons and a joystick with this arcade cabinet must also be possible for iPhone and iPod touch games to play without you having a large closet for this use. It will cost $ 50.
To use the Icade accessories to game developers can implement into their games. Something that a fair number of games already done: Ion's website contains a list .
When the accessories will launch remains to be seen: Ion shows they are currently on the CES technology, which only refers to a 2012 launch of the Mobile and Icade Icade Core. About Icade Jr.. they are somewhat more specific: it appears in the second quarter of this year.
