If you have a Mac, iPhone, iPad, and even an Apple TV and use it for gaming, watch your data because 8BitDo It has just announced that the compatibility of its latest models with remote control has reached all these Apple devices. And that’s just the beginning.

More context, although if you only came to read this news for the headline, you already know what it’s about: Chinese company 8BitDo, which specializes in creating retro-type game controllers, although it has put everything into it recently, continues to expand its horizons and in the production of simple PC peripherals or clones of the classic Nintendo Switch controller is now officially coming to Apple devices.

According to the official announcement, they are doing so with six of their most popular models:

• 8BitDo Ultimate Controller 2.4g
• 8BitDo Pro 2
• 8BitDo SN30 Pro+
• 8BitDo Pro
• 8BitDo SN30 Pro for Android
• 8Bitdo Lite SE

These controls now offer “official and wireless compatibility with iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS.” Requirements include use iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, and macOS 13.2 or lateras well as installing the latest version of firmware for these models through the 8BitDo client, which you can download from this link (also for Windows).

In this regard, it is worth noting that not that 8BitDo controllers could not previously be used on Apple devices such as iOS, iPad or macOS, since they are Bluetooth peripherals and as such work on any system that supports them. But they didn’t always work as they should, and not always with all the functions that are officially supported.

Apple users with their eyes on 8BitDo controls are running out of excuses to consider it, and as mentioned at the beginning of the article, this is just the beginning as support is expected to roll out with the rest. articles from a company that doesn’t just revolve around nostalgia: sa more than interesting value for money8BitDo has become one of the most attractive brands in its segment.

Two examples of this are the latest 8BitDo Ultimate Controller, which has yet to deploy official ‘premium’ compatibility with Apple; or, in another way, the 8BitDo Wireless USB Adapter, the dongle the most popular for the Nintendo Switch, with which they brought controls like Google Stadia closer to the Nintendo console.