iCade, the iPad accessory that started as a April Fool’s Day evolves into an all-new form just announced at CES. iCade Mobile lets you slide your iPhone or iPad touch into a d-pad style sheath that provides physical inputs for your on-the-go gaming.
You’ll get four face buttons and two shoulder buttons. Now all this thing needs is a heap of developer support so you can stop trying to look through your fingers when playing on your iPhone. It’s out later this year for $US79.99. Head on over to ionaudio.com for more info.
DeeDub76
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:08 AMGeez, expensive much?
bazuden
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 10:00 AMI’d pay US$80 for this. Unfortunately they’ll probably be US$180 in Australia.
Tunblor
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:10 AMWhere may I find this Ipad Touch? Will it be an upgrade on an Ipad 2?
As for accessory pricing, I’d guess that a lot of the cost is in Apple licencing to ensure it works with official apps.
gunni3
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 12:07 PMyes and I am also curious on how this started as an April Fools Day… lol
bigkid
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 9:45 AMUnless Apple enforce the rule saying all games (using virtual controller) must be compatible with it, there is no point getting one
Josh
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 11:12 AMIve been waiting for something like this since I got my iPhone. Mashing your digits on the same screen that all the action is happening on, well it just don’t make sense.
Chazz
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 3:37 PMThat things gonna be bigger than the PS Vita by the looks of it.