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Hands On With SteelSeries Stratus
Mar 11, 2025
Cult of Mac meets up with SteelSeries at CES to talk about its new iOS 7 controller, Stratus
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hey guys here from Elija Gadget Hunter
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here at CES 2014 with CAC I'm standing
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here with Jamie kefir I'm at the steel
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series Booth I wanted to make sure I
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said that right that's good you got it
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and you're going to be talking to me
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about a controller for iOS yes the steel
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series Stratus wireless controller it's
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the first ever Bluetooth controller that
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works with all iOS 7 devices us new
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level of gaming where you can actually
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game with a traditional controller eight
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button layout two joystick style all on
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iOS 7 devices Alpha certified Apple
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certified launching a pre-order on our
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shop right now launching an Apple retail
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and Apple online later this month so
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it's going to be available on your
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website and also at Apple Stores yes
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Apple Stores and Apple's website as well
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now I'm excited about this because as
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some of you may know Avid gamer like to
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play console games uh I like touch games
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too but I don't like to play those games
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where it's just like you like move your
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f around I like to have a control I'm
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I'm a gamer's gamer right well if you
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want to play I mean if you want to play
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Touch touchscreen games that optimize
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with a touchcreen that's great if you
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want to play more classic games the the
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controller just doesn't really work for
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it very well if you want to stop being a
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poser and be a real gamer you need a
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controller your words not mine I'm
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rephrasing what you just said to me well
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I like the rephrase uh but yeah but
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essentially this basically brings all
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that into your hands on a beautiful
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retina iPad device it's an amazing
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immersive gaming experience I think this
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is going to be really cool for IOS games
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yeah it's great and we're incredibly
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excited about it and the development
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Community is all over it cuz iOS 7
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launched controller functionality in the
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de kit so the development Community is
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all over there's about 50 titles that
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launched that work great and hundreds
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more coming throughout the year all did
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you say how much this was $99 and
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available uh steelseries.com pre-order
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right now available at our website and
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available at Apple retail and Apple
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online later in January early February
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excellent well thanks a lot all right
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thank you I'm a from Elija here with col
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to Ma Gadget hunting I'll be on the prow
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for new gadgets stay tuned
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