Wii Nunchuk Ripoff Coming to Mobile Phones

Jan. 3 12:39 PM by Alicia Ashby

The Zeemote, which resembles but is legally distinct from the Wii Nunchuk.

The Zeemote, which is legally distinct from the Wii Nunchuk.

You know a Nintendo controller design has really hit it big when other manufacturers start copying it. The Wii Nunchuk can now join that long, proud list.

Start-up peripheral maker Zeetoo is currently developing a Wii Nunchuk knockoff called the Zeemote for the mobile phone market. Quoth CVG:

Using Bluetooth to connect to your phone, the device has an analogue stick, buttons on the reverse, all in a body that's shaped uncannily like the Wii Nunchuk controller.

Zeetoo even has a motion sensing version of the controller in the prototype phases, and another with a tracker ball.

It's hard to fault Zeetoo's logic here, though. The mobile market desperately needs better controls if they want games that take advantage of high-end hardware, and right now the Wii's controllers are the hottest on the market.