SteelSeries Nimbus + Review - Play with your apples

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Imagine that you are at your parents-in-law. Chat after dinner finally ended, and you're looking to relax. Your switch is dead and the female-parents have nothing but an Apple TV. What should a player do? Eureka! You think: your faithful Nimbus + Steelers is in your backpack. Between this and an Apple (iPhone, iPad or Apple TV), you can install your game with double joystick just about anywhere.

Apple Arcade has really opened the door to Apple devices as serious gaming machines. Of course, Freemium games like Royal Clash and Two Dots exist from chandeliers, and they are perfect for a 10-minute bus ride. Arcade adds to this pool with nice experiences that cross other real game platforms like Sayonara Wild Hearts and Santa, and unique titles such as Grindstone. The real games (okay, I will stop saying it) are often better with a joystick — God prevents you from trying to play with the remote control of the Apple TV.

So, enter the Nimbus + steel. Adopting the general form, the layout and ergonomics of the Xbox One, the Nimbus is familiar in the hand. The surface texture is like an incredibly fine sandpaper, which has resisted quite well during the tests. The grip is good, even if I am not a fan of the overall feeling of the surface, especially not compared to a Dual Shock 4 or Switch Pro controller. The seams between the coin pieces are elevated and rough, and long-term comfort is a problem for me. The angular design of the hull is at least partly to blame. It looks futuristic and offers good surfaces on which to rest your fingers at first, but the edges become annoying after about an hour.

The pavement is super Click, and the face buttons are Xbox-esque, although I fear they become pasty over time. Analog sticks, on the other hand, are very tight and precise. There is no release at the center, even nearly a month after starting to test it. Impressive for sure, especially on a material of $70. They are concave and more or less at the height of the Xbox, but the surface of the stick is strangely smooth. Sliding borderline. Apple Arcade does not offer a lot of quick action games, but any experience requiring precision work on stick instantly worsens when you do not trust your feet.

Short-run triggers are sitting in a nice ergonomic position and offer a linear and fluid race. The bumpers do not come out as well, unfortunately, feeling more like remote control buttons than controller buttons, and requiring all your hand moves to support them with confidence.

Yet the Nimbus + has the impression that it could survive a game session with the incredible Hulk. After taking a total blow. You could probably drive a school bus. Seriously, there is not a single grinding, crack or rattle in the Nimbus +. It is clearly lightweight and plastic, but it could survive until the thermal death of the universe. Do you know this napoleon dynamite scene where Uncle Rico tells this guy trying to tear the Tupperware? It's about as strong. For children and angry players, the Nimbus + is tested for bullets.

The connection to your Apple devices is very simple, using the same Bluetooth connection interface as all the earphones, cars or smart speakers in your life. And that's all. Since the first connection, I have not encountered any connection problems or a fun of fun signal.

The life of the battery is, in a word, ridiculous. Steelers claims 50 hours, and I do not doubt it at least as long. Seriously, I have not loaded it for more than a month, and it always claims to be full. Although I would have preferred to see a USB-C port instead of a lightning connector, it's really nice not to wonder if the Nimbus + will be ready to scold.

The Nimbus + comes with a support to stick your iPhone, and it is one of the strangest designs I saw. Inclined and retractable metal pins are sort of in rubber brackets on the controller, and the result is anything but inspiring confidence. I mounted my iPhone carefully several times, but only on a really soft surface. The pliers of the phone looks solid, but the controller side is beyond fragility. I would not trust him even when I play in a fixed place. In a train? Forget.

Overall, the Nimbus + is a good solution to play Apple-based game platforms. Some ergonomic and material options are not as refined as those found on the traditional first part solutions, but they are still pleasant for the types of pop-in and pop-out games that you will find on Apple Arcade. A lame phone support spoils somewhat pleasure, but with an almost endless autonomy and durability that can survive your great-grandchildren, the Nimbus + seems specially designed for abuse. Good Would survive a nuclear war Solid button sensation Incredibly good battery life 70 The bad Materials A step below the first part Terrible phone holder Sliding sticks