XCM introduces 'ministick' for mobile gaming

[garyopa]

That's right, you literally put a real mini stick on your tablet/phone screen for a more comfortable/precise mobile gaming!



XCM has announced their 'mini stick' for mobile gaming.
You can choose between an Xbox 360 analog stick shape concave design or a PS3 analog stick shape convex design.

XCM has announced their "mini stick" for the iPhone, iPad and other smartphones/tablets.

You can now place these on your mobile device touch screen for more comfortable and precise gaming sessions.

To use the mini sticks, you only need to stick them in place and you are ready to go. You can choose between an Xbox 360 analog stick shape concave design, a PS3 analog stick shape convex design and a D-pad shape.

Here are the "mini stick" full features:

Functions:

• Arcade game stick compatible with mobile/iPhone, iPad and tablets
• Add a real physical mini joystick to your mobile phone or tablet for enhanced gaming precision
• Works with most of games
• No wires or batteries required
• Won’t damage the screen
• Easy to remove and reposition
• Suction cup
• Contact touch-screen sensitivity

And here are some screens.

- XCM mini stick (using on iPhone)











- XCM mini stick (using on iPad/the new iPad/mobile phone and tablet)









And finally, check out the DEMO video below, so you can see it in action on the iPad!

NEWS SOURCE #1: XCM Ministick for mobile gaming (via) XCM
NEWS SOURCE #2: XCM Products (via) XCM Live

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[wrathchild]

Oh my God this crap has been around for ages now. I don't know about XCM but this crap is sooo hold.

[DEDDOA]

Why bother, appart from being annoying on small screens like mobiles, you still have to use the same piss poor touch screen controlls for the buttons so you may as well use your thumbs for the controlls as well. That said any game on Play that I have to use either the touch screen or the crappy touchbad analogue controlls, get chucked in the stingies as the games paly badly enough as it is without the added piss poor controls (which is a shame as I like the look of the Mass effect and Deadspace games, maybe if there is a PC emulator that will play them I will give it a try). Infact all I play on the phones these days and so rarely that i doubt I will finish the game before november when i will hopefully get a windows 8 phone, I asphalt 6 and Monkeyball, both of which require touch screen controlls for menu's only.

[MadonnaProject]

whatever. does anyone even use these?