i just don't see how there's any benefit to the consumer to do this rather than just doing Jackbox-style games on existing platforms with the phones you already have. If the controllers were like actual controllers with buttons and sticks next to the touchscreen then it could've at least done some interesting stuff, but they wanted to make them look like Intellivision controllers (because everyone has so much nostalgia for that, right?) so now it's just an underpowered phone processor that has to render to the TV and multiple Fisher Price toy phones simultaneously.
I was pretty disappointed when I saw the controller was just a standard-format dual analog controller. Genesis (and N64 and Saturn, if they do those) games really need six face buttons to work naturally. The only options for that anymore are the Retron's controller and Hori's old EX2 Turbo Xbox 360 controller (which can go for $100 used now). I was hoping that a modular system that's meant to encompass just about every old console all in one would have more thought put into its controller and not just be a generic PC gamepad.
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i just don't see how there's any benefit to the consumer to do this rather than just doing Jackbox-style games on existing platforms with the phones you already have. If the controllers were like actual controllers with buttons and sticks next to the touchscreen then it could've at least done some interesting stuff, but they wanted to make them look like Intellivision controllers (because everyone has so much nostalgia for that, right?) so now it's just an underpowered phone processor that has to render to the TV and multiple Fisher Price toy phones simultaneously.
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I was pretty disappointed when I saw the controller was just a standard-format dual analog controller. Genesis (and N64 and Saturn, if they do those) games really need six face buttons to work naturally. The only options for that anymore are the Retron's controller and Hori's old EX2 Turbo Xbox 360 controller (which can go for $100 used now). I was hoping that a modular system that's meant to encompass just about every old console all in one would have more thought put into its controller and not just be a generic PC gamepad.
At least it can use original controllers.