Backbone unveils Backbone Pro controller engineered to play on any screen

Backbone announced Backbone Pro, a next-generation controller engineered from the ground up to let players game on any screen with a single device. The controller is a result of some intense engineering and market research, and it took more than three years to design and bring to the market, said Maneet Khaira, CEO of Backbone Labs, in an exclusive interview with GamesBeat. In fact, the Palo Alto, California-based company went through 9,000 prototypes and did 30 market research reports to figure out if it was on the right track to creating a breakthrough product, he said. To do that, Khaira had to build a team that all but worshipped the science and art of designing game controllers. They built a sequel to the Backbone One, launched in 2021. Today, there are hundreds of millions of game controllers in the world, but they’re all designed to work primarily with a single console—and then slowly adapted to work elsewhere. That model hasn’t changed much, even as the way people play games ... Read full article.