Keyboard, Mouse and Gamepad Combine to Form World's Most Awkward Controller

[TheDoctor455]

By your powers combined I am...

A fucked-up multi-useless flipper-baby!

 

[icyneesan]

Man I'm getting flash backs to the Power glove :\

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

In all seriousness: I'm really curious if this was ever actually tested out before it was put out for sale.

 

[Zen-Riddler]

Who let the intern design the contorller?

And the official site has the audacity to call it ergonomic?!

 

[archabaddon]

Atari called they want their jaguar controller design back.

OT: What an ugly button set and overpriced P.o.S. I try not to be harsh but 120 bucks for that piece of crap? Did they get the idea from the 360 and just say we'll add a few bucks onto it because it works on PC?

Funny thin is, I saw this product at CES and thought it looked kinda cool. Even picked up a flier for it, or something that looks exactly like it from a Chinese company called Cideko.

Looks like the target market for this are multemedia PCs, so you can have KB / mouse functionality without having to use a full-sized mouse and keyboard.

It certainly looks bigger than an XBox 360 controller (IIRC from CES, it is). It's probably because the KB buttons are bigger.

And yes, you can use the XBox 360 controller ($40 retail) with a PC, but you have to have the wireless adapter for the PC ($32 retail). Then, you have to add the keyboard ($20 retail). This still costs less than the peripheral in question, but lacks the accelerometer function, if that's important. For multimedia PC apps, probably not.

That being said, in retrospect, I could go either way. Marketing the device towards non-gamers (ie: people who don't know any better about being able to use XB360 wireless controllers with a PC) might be their angle .

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

THis reminds me of the PS2 had one of these, minus the mouse/motion.

 

[ryo02]

to me the keyboard and mouse set up just feels really awkward for fps games I just cant do it Ill stick with a controller thanks.

 

[Ashsaver]

I'm curious:How heavy is it? certainly not as heavy as an Atari5200 right?

 

[Awexsome]

Pretty substantial evidence that a whole can be less than the sum of its parts. Cut off the bottom half of that thing then maybe I'll play with it. The Gamecube controller still remains my favorite interface of all time since I was brought up with it the most with along with the N64, but the three different "handles" on the 64 controller aren't as good as the GC's.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

uhh..no thanks, i'll stick to my controller for certain things and KB+M for other things, sometimes combining things is not the better way to go about it.

captcha's i swear i'm going to murder you, i've been on here for maybe 10 minutes total today and i've had four of you already

 

[Veylon]

Pfft. Behold the awesome wonder of the AlphaGrip:

Now there's the true fusion of gamepad and keyboard!

 

[Snotnarok]

Atari called they want their jaguar controller design back.

OT: What an ugly button set and overpriced P.o.S. I try not to be harsh but 120 bucks for that piece of crap? Did they get the idea from the 360 and just say we'll add a few bucks onto it because it works on PC?

Funny thin is, I saw this product at CES and thought it looked kinda cool. Even picked up a flier for it, or something that looks exactly like it from a Chinese company called Cideko.

Looks like the target market for this are multemedia PCs, so you can have KB / mouse functionality without having to use a full-sized mouse and keyboard.

It certainly looks bigger than an XBox 360 controller (IIRC from CES, it is). It's probably because the KB buttons are bigger.

And yes, you can use the XBox 360 controller ($40 retail) with a PC, but you have to have the wireless adapter for the PC ($32 retail). Then, you have to add the keyboard ($20 retail). This still costs less than the peripheral in question, but lacks the accelerometer function, if that's important. For multimedia PC apps, probably not.

That being said, in retrospect, I could go either way. Marketing the device towards non-gamers (ie: people who don't know any better about being able to use XB360 wireless controllers with a PC) might be their angle .

I can't imagine it being worth it honestly, there's 70 different ways to hook a controller to a PC without the keyboard granted but keyboards are not expensive, hell 90% of the time you can find one for free.

 

[The Wooster]

It just looks ridiculously awkward and uncomfortable to hold. I've seen cinder blocks that looked more streamlined than this puppy.

Actually I remember a conversation about the 360 controller on kotaku where a surprisingly large amount of gamers said they used the keyboard add on for the 360 controller purely for the extra heft it gave the already bulky pad. Some were even considering the ridiculous controller beard [http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/12/img_0525.jpg] for exactly that reason. This seems right up their alley.

As a replacement for a mouse and keyboard, however? Lol, as the kids might say.

 

[Chamale]

Whenever someone claims that mouse+keyboard is better than controller, or the other way around, I'll call them a noob and say that real gamers use this monster.

Thank you, Veho, for creating the ultimate argument-stopper.

[/sarcasm]

 

[Aeshi]

What the hell is that thing?!

Purge it with fire!

 

[Warachia]

Spoiler

Thank you. This setup has been around for some time on both the 360 and Ps3, not to mention on the previous consoles to some limited capacity and even the PSP.

 

[GeorgW]

Who thought that would be a good idea?? Why not just get a PS3 controler with the keyboard add-on?

 

[OceanRunner]

Is anyone else reminded of Steel Battalion's controller?

Spoiler: And it still looks more fun than the chimeratroller

And that was just made for a couple of games.

 

[verindae]

lol this thing is just asking for a "Yo Dawg"