OS 7 Gaming? SteelSeries Stratus: Wireless Gaming Controller #Helpful Post

what's up Internet Kevin here on TLD end

today we're gonna bring you guys a brief

little review of this the SteelSeries

Stratos a small portable Bluetooth

wireless controller designed

specifically to be used with different

iOS devices we're gonna talk about how

it feels and controls what kind of apps

that works best with and in the end

whether or not it's worth purchasing so

let's check it out today on TLD

so this is the SteelSeries Stratos a

small puckett sized Bluetooth controller

that you can get in black as you can see

here and also available in a white and

gray model it features a setup that's

pretty standard these days if you've got

a d-pad with two analog sticks four

front-facing buttons on the right side

with a pause button in the middle and up

top we've got four different shoulder

buttons above the pause button is a

series of four lights which act both as

a battery meter and as player

designation in multiplayer situations on

the bottom we can see a microUSB port

used for charging and on the right side

we've got the power button and on back

is a syncing button used whenever you

want to add a new device to connect to

or erase its device history now included

in the box aside from the controller

itself is a dust cover screen for when

carrying the controller around in your

pocket a nice little carrying bag if you

want to be even more fancy and a micro

USB to USB cable for charging purposes

now first off I have to say this

controller is extremely comfortable

despite its very small size normally

with something this small you'd be

worried about the buttons being way too

close to each other so you're

accidentally hitting them or there's not

really good way of gripping it which

might still be an issue if you do have

particularly large hands but otherwise

it's actually really comfy and you can

use it for hours on end without any real

kind of problem the sides in the top of

the controller contoured your index

fingers allowing you to firmly grip it

and easily access all the top folder

buttons with your other fingers acting

as support now one little feature that I

do like is the fact that the Stratus is

dust cover can also be snapped onto the

back of the controller and giving you

another way to have a better grip for

your middle finger to rest into and just

a place to store the cover so you don't

just put it down while you're using the

controller and lose it somewhere now

feel wise this thing is really

responsive but the front-facing buttons

having just the right balance of

pressure sensitivity and resistance to

touch the shoulder buttons on the other

hand are just a little awkward just

because of how thin the controller is

and how close together they are but it

really doesn't take that much time to

adjust and just get used to resting your

index fingers on both of them and just

shifting front and back now personally

I'm not a big fan of its d-pad it feels

just a bit too shallow for my comfort

but in all honesty most app games don't

really use that and in favor they use

the dual analogs which actually work out

really great despite not having any kind

of gripping or concave feature to keep

your thumbs locked on now setting up the

controller is really easy as it follows

basically the same steps as any

bluetooth device would with iOS and the

battery life of

ours is more than enough when you're

using it portably on the go as long as

you remember to charge it every night so

overall in terms of just pure

performance and how it feels I really

don't have any major complaints

regarding this controller it's really

great despite its small size but there

are a few caveats in terms of its field

of use to begin with this does work only

for iOS 7 and above and that also means

that you have to be using it on an

iPhone 5 a fourth-generation iPad or any

iPad Mini and fifth-generation iPod

Touches and on top of that you need to

know which app games actually do offer

full controller support now SteelSeries

does have on their website a list of all

the different games that the strattice

will currently work for but even then a

lot of those games that say they offer

controller support don't necessarily do

it all the way a lot of them will

oftentimes have sections or even just on

the options menu times where you have to

use the touch controls now when a game

does offer full controller support the

difference is night and day especially

in FPS games where dual analogs and

buttons are king compared to swipe

controls and having to use on-screen

buttons which end up blocking your view

point I also found it a lot more

preferable in third person or isometric

action games where I was trying to do

multiple things in quick succession

without making mistakes

now one last important issue about this

controller that you have to cover is

that I find that the price point of $80

is just too steep for what you're

getting now don't get me wrong like I

said this controller is absolutely great

for how small it is and in fact I'm even

willing to deal with the argument of the

fact that taking all that technology and

compacting it into a such a small frame

and working so well is worth paying more

than 40 or 50 dollars but the problem is

the amount of content you can actually

use it with right now unless you're

planning on buying and playing all 140

games on that list you're gonna find

yourself buying an $80 controller just

to play a handful of titles that you

probably paid less than 30 or 40 dollars

for as a group now as time goes on and

more and more games actually have

controller support this argument is

gonna be moot but as of right now today

I just find it to be too much of a tough

sell now if you do have the money to

spare and you're looking over this list

of all the different games that have

controller support and you can find

enough of them to justify to yourself

purchasing it then great because the

strattice is an awesome portable

wireless controller to use otherwise go

ahead and hold on to your money for now

save it up and wait to either see it go

on sale or see a huge spike in games

that you want to play that do offer

controller support now before I get out

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our review of the SteelSeries Stratus

wireless gaming controller for iOS if

you guys want to grab one for yourself

or just check it out in the alternate

white color we have a link posted in the

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