In addition, GameSmart offers game developers and game publishers standardization, ease of implementation and scalability when enabling controller and console-like accessory functionality in mobile games.
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The basic operation is simple enough, with triggers, face buttons, a d-pad and everything else you'd need to ape a modern console controller.
Where the Moga felt a bit constricting and prone to causing hand cramps over long use, the Moga Pro feels as natural as a regular game console controller.
The app works as a game hub too, allowing the user to enter, exit and play games by navigating exclusively with the Atlas controller -- a console front-end, if you will.
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It's interesting that Nintendo chose this year to unveil the controller ahead of the console, a 180 degree twist from the E3 unveil a few years back, where we saw the console first.
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We have the controller, but the actual console appears to be missing in action, confusing the masses.
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It's a full-featured Android tablet, a full-featured gaming console with a controller when docked on the TV and it's a smart TV device.
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When backers pointed out on Reddit that the color-coded buttons on the console's controller were no good for color-blind players, Ouya replaced them, making the four buttons correspond with the O, U, Y and A in its name.
The Xperia Play was the first PlayStation phone, which had a slide-out controller and let players download classic console games.
Wikipad is the first tablet with an attachable console-quality gamepad controller.
Each console comes with a controller system that incorporates two MEMS chips, but players often double the fun by buying a second controller to play alongside friends.
The first point you made is that it was confusing for consumers whether or not the Wii-U was merely a new controller, or an entire new console you will have to buy.
Its iDrive user interface consists of an LCD panel mounted in the dashboard and a controller knob mounted on the center console, and it controls a vast and disparate number of functions in BMWs.
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Of the big three, Nintendo is slated to lock in more launch details for its Wii U device, which is expected to offer game developers the ability to offer apps for both the console and the wireless tablet controller through a Nintendo App Store.
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The console is bigger than an Xbox controller but smaller than the Wii U's game-pad.
Wii Sports took a prize for the innovative use it makes of the Wii console's motion-sensitive controller.
An optional Gamepad Controller turns the Razer Edge into a mobile console, offering an immersive, portable gaming experience.
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It s a simple idea but one with major repercussions: Nintendo s Wii U game console features a touch-sensitive controller rather like a tablet computer.
Nintendo's Wii U tablet controller thankfully streamlines that process in a small, but tremendously meaningful way: during initial console setup, you're prompted to sync your television and the tablet controller, allowing the tablet itself to control the TV's power, volume, channels, and input directly.
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With it, the console's touch-screen GamePad controller becomes a remote control for your TV and set-top box.
Together, the Arena app and Atlas controller turn a Kindle Fire HD into a gaming console so you can enjoy mobile games from the couch on a big screen TV without making an investment in new hardware.
Namely, the console will ship with a new version of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera controller, Kinect, and that the device, "must be plugged in and calibrated for the console to even function, " the piece says.
An MMORPG that translates well over to a controller might just have a fighting chance of cornering the console market.
After enjoying massive success in Europe, Gametel, a Bluetooth controller that transforms smartphones and tablets into a portable games console, is heading to America.
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The Konami Code is perhaps the most famous cheat code ever, a controller sequence that unlocked extra lives and virtual goodies in console games including Contra, Gradius, and Gyruss.
It's unclear if the controller will change in any other significant ways ahead of the console's retail availability, but we're hopeful that the button sticking issue is also addressed.
At its E3 press conference Monday morning, Microsoft announced the official price and launch date of its expected Kinect system, a controller-less add-on to the Xbox 360 game console that players control using their hands and gestures.
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Consoles, in turn, are accessible, and if Valve created a mini-PC of sorts (which is what most consoles are) for the living room, they could recreate the console experience many gamers prefer, complete with a controller, while still satiating the hardcore who want to use a wireless mouse and keyboard.
However, the man who brought to life Nintendo legends like Mario, Link and Donkey Kong is preaching patience with the console, saying the Wii U, with its touchscreen controller that augments big-screen play, is so different that it will take time for people to understand its real value.
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