Each side of the expandable device is only slightly larger than a Switch Joy-Con, but is much more comfortable to hold, even for longer play sessions. All that hassle, all that resyncing, all that worrying about whether the controller is charged is gone due to that physical Lightning connection.Īnd the Backbone holds up incredibly as a remote play controller once connected. Timing myself now, I can attach the Backbone to my phone and be playing a game in under 10 seconds, and that includes having to take my phone out of its case, since the hardware requires a flush connection with the Lightning port. I’d previously spend five to 10 minutes resyncing an Xbox controller to get it to work on iOS, with varying degrees of success. And after using the Backbone for the last few weeks, almost exclusively as a remote play controller, I’m a convert.
It was enough of a barrier to entry to discourage me from playing this way with any regularity, and that’s not even mentioning the need to prop my phone up or get some sort of comical crane device to hold my phone above a standard controller.Ī friend suggested I check out the Backbone One, an iPhone controller that doesn’t require syncing, since there’s a physical Lightning port you plug the phone into.
#BACKBONE GAME ON SWITCH BLUETOOTH#
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