[bluescrn]

Yeah, there's not much point bothering if you're limited to a touchscreen

And if you're going to the effort of using a separate controller, you might as well use a separate gaming device.

[throwaway48476]

There are controllers that integrate your phone and using your phone makes financial sense and reduces the hassle of having to carry a separate device.

[musicale]

Gamesir G8 Galileo is my winning option for USB-C (after trying Backbone One, Razer Kishi, and others.)

Makes for a pretty solid gaming* handheld, with a design that is similar to the Switch, Steam Deck, etc.

*(if you can find mobile games without awful monetization schemes)

[bluescrn]

> using your phone makes financial sense

We're talking about Apple devices here...

[al_borland]

Anyone still making “Apple overpriced” comments hasn’t really looked at prices in a long time.

Starting prices of the normal phones:

iPhone 15 - $799

iPhone 15+ - $899

Samsung S24 - $859

Samsung S24+ - $999

[Firmwarrior]

Personally I'd rather be able to game on my beefy iPhone 15 with a clip-on gamepad than have to lug around a slow, loud, gigantic Steam Deck or a laughably primitive Switch

[iggldiggl]

> Yeah, there's not much point bothering if you're limited to a touchscreen

Mmhm, I used to have a PDA [1] which had four hardware buttons below the screen and a D-pad, and that was rather nifty for that kind of games.

[1] Asus MyPal A620 – it came as part of a car navigation system which was gifted to us by some relatives. We never used the navigation part much, but because the whole thing was based on a regular Windows Mobile PDA which could run any software available, I appropriated it for myself :-)