A while back I found a Youtube video by Rerez showing off a new controller called the ALL Controller. It is supposed to work on a lot of different consoles including the Wii, Wii U, Switch, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, Mac, Any and all Linux distros, and iOS and Android. Seeing the video got me really hyped at first, but then I really started thinking about it...
Those are just two things I thought of. I'm more confident in the first point though than the second. Does anybody else have any idea why this wouldn't work? Or maybe it very well could work and I'm just being dumb. What do you guys think?
ALL Controller video
ALL Controller official site
- If the controller was going to work on iOS, it'd have to conform to MFI standards. A big part of these standards is no clicky sticks (L3 and R3). Either the controller gives up L3 and R3, crippling support for nearly everything besides iOS, or it doesn't conform to MFI standards, and is unable to be officially used on iOS. In an even worse case, ALL Controller just won't support iOS at all.
- Because Xbox controllers don't use bluetooth, and instead some signal that only Microsoft uses, the ALL Controller can't connect to an Xbox. It's why every third party controller uses a usb connector. They could just make the controller use usb input for everything, and that's probably what they'll have to do to get around this.
Those are just two things I thought of. I'm more confident in the first point though than the second. Does anybody else have any idea why this wouldn't work? Or maybe it very well could work and I'm just being dumb. What do you guys think?
ALL Controller video
ALL Controller official site