One game controller to rule them all? Not yet, but the Backbone Pro sets out on that path and covers a fair bit of ground -- for a nontrivial $170 price tag (thank you tariffs) plus an optional subscription at $40 a year to bring the necessary features into play.

Since arriving in 2020, the Backbone One has helped popularize dedicated mobile game controllers, the kind you might use for streaming services like Xbox Cloud Gaming and NVIDIA GeForce Now, remote play apps,

On the bottom of the controller is the USB-C port on the right, and the headphone jack on the left. There’s also a new button, which is a Bluetooth pairing button that you can use to connect the controller to other devices. You can also do so in the Backbone app, though.