Ces 2020 Razer Debuts New Dualsided Iphone Game Controller In Partnership With Gamevice Exclusive 📍

The iPhone’s Lightning port only provides 3.3V at a limited current. Gamevice’s rigid design required a power-hungry haptic motor (Hypersense). In testing, the controller would drain an iPhone 11 Pro from 100% to 0% in 2.5 hours of gameplay without charging the phone. Pass-through charging was throttled to 5W, leading to battery drain under load.

At CES, whispers of the "Backbone One" (released later in 2020) were already circulating. However, Razer’s partnership with Gamevice gives them legal cover that Backbone lacked. By owning the patent rights, Gamevice could potentially block competitors from using the exact dual-sided pass-through design. The iPhone’s Lightning port only provides 3

For Razer, partnering with Gamevice allowed them to bypass the developmental hurdles of creating a form-fitting wrap from scratch. Instead, they leveraged Gamevice's patented bridge design and injected it with Razer’s signature aesthetic and engineering quality, focusing on premium materials and reduced input latency. Pass-through charging was throttled to 5W, leading to

Actually, a Razer booth representative clarified (recorded on a now-deleted Periscope stream) that "dual-sided" referred to the : The left side connects to the phone; the right side connects to the left side through the phone’s circuitry—a "dual-sided" electrical pathway. By owning the patent rights, Gamevice could potentially

The Razer Kishi represents a strategic collaboration where , a veteran in mobile controller manufacturing, provided the foundational hardware expertise. While building on Gamevice’s existing split-controller concepts, Razer integrated its signature "look and feel," including clicky buttons and refined ergonomics.

Razer’s partnership with and its collaboration with cloud services like NVIDIA GeForce NOW position the as a gateway to AAA PC gaming. By using the