“If you have an iPad Pro and/or a new Apple TV, and if you like games — especially retro arcade titles— add the $49.95 Nimbus Wireless Controller to your Christmas shopping list,” Dennis Sellers writes for Apple World Today.
“Play Pac-Man on your iPad Pro using your finger to direct our yellow hero and you’ll be gobbled up quickly,” Sellers writes. “Use the Nimbus with its two physical (analog) joysticks, a traditional D-pad and buttons, and you’ll survive much longer.”
“The Nimbus sits comfortably in your hands, and the buttons and sticks are extremely responsive,” Sellers writes. “The Nimbus pairs easily over Bluetooth with iOS devices, the Apple TV, as well as Macs…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Yes. The Nimbus Wireless Controller works very well with your iOS device(s) and your Mac(s). Certainly games like Pac-Mac are frustrating and go unplayed without one. We like the SteelSeries Stratus XL Bluetooth Wireless Controller ($69) even better (it feels even better and more natural in the hand).
I can’t find that $49 price. Amazon is showing $62 for me.
I picked mine up at one of the local Apple stores. It’s also available via Apple’s online store:
http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HJ162ZM/A/steelseries-nimbus-wireless-gaming-controller?fnode=a0
Would be nice if we could just use a bluetooth PS4 controller instead.
On my list and I know my wife bought it and hid it somewhere in the house. Making me wait till Christmas! arrrghhhh!!!! 😭
I’d rather have one that looks and functions more like the PS4 controller, not a Xbox one.
Yeah. Ps4 version please