SteelSeries Nimbus Bluetooth Mobile Gaming Controller

Cnovalles73

April 11, 2024

Almost Perfect

I ordered a used/refurbished model so I wasn't expecting “brand new” condition but the fact that the box says it includes a lightning cable and it didn't come with one, is a disappointment.

Ordered new product but appears I got a refurb.

The packaging it came with was very damaged and looked to be refurbished. No charge cable was included but fortunately I had one from another device. Controller worked fine when testing so I did not send back but almost did due the poor quality of packaging etc.

artificially intelligent

November 17, 2019

Very disappointed

Great product that works good with my iPad but unfortunately is not compatible with a majority of games I like to play. Not sure how you can sync the controls two games that are not required By the app. So I’ve basically came to the conclusion that this one controller is only good for Grandtheft auto and virtually useless for any other game.

Came exactly as described!

I bought this for my daughter so she could use it while playing Minecraft on her iPhone 6S. It was really easy to pair the controller to her phone and then we downloaded the app Nimbus, which you have to do. In the Nimbus app, there seems to be a lot of other games you can use the controller for, but we specifically bought the controller to be able to play Minecraft. The controller works really well and my daughter loves it.

A must for Apple TV

I like the product just what I needed for my apple tv

Silly Reviews

June 12, 2019

Received A Broken Unit From Warehouse Deals.

I skimped and paid for it. Well, this was a bad deal. The unit arrived with a broken left trigger. Very disappointed. Poor performance from their inventory quality control.

Now, holding the unit, it really feels nice. I was thinking it was going to be nicer than my XB1 controllers. Sadly, I'll never know.

Steelseries refused to honor the warranty because the serial number is worn off

The controller was very good and ergonomic for playing games. however after just 4 months of use the controller suddenly stopped working and not charging anymore. When contacted the steelseries they refused saying that the serial number is worn off. It is a handheld device and the serial number is bound to worn off from the sweat of your palm. Very disappointed.

Fortnite, IOS? Perfect solution!

Awesome build quality, doesn’t feel cheap by any means. Pairs perfect with IOS devices and battery life is great. This is a must for any iOS gamer that plays fortnite.

BEWARE, this is a refurbished product , NOT a “New never used” as advertised!!

I ordered a NEW controller, right in the legal disclaimer it says, “Never Used”. Pretty bad misrepresentation when I open the box and there is refurbished stickers on the inner packaging and the controller itself... disappointing...

Works well with Apple TV

Very compatible with Apple TV 4K that I have. Super fast delivery to Singapore, arrived in 1 week.

Perfect

Perfect!!! Fast shipping and great communication.!!!! I'm going to try how it works.!!!!

Melissa

January 31, 2019

WORKS ON IOS FOR FORTNITE

I bought the controller to see if it would be compatible with my iPhone SE and it was!! Works good. Very similar to an Xbox controller. Charges with an iPhone cable (doesn’t come with its own). Super easy to set up. Already played some games with it on my iPhone and it works good!! Highly recommend!!

Left analog stick does not work

Very disappointed. The analog stick is sticking to the right. Considering how much the controller cost I was expecting way better quality of this product.

Greg

January 13, 2019

Solid controller

Satisfied with the purchase!! Seamless pairing with an iPhone 6s. Unboxed, turned on controller, went to Bluetooth setting on iPhone and controller showed up as nimbus. The picture is game play of GTA3 that is downloaded to my PS4. I use an app called “R-Play” ($11.99 on App Store) to remote in to my PS4. As long as the phone is on WiFi you can remote in to your console, even outside your home. If you have an old iPhone lying around it’s worth the $67 for this remote play setup.

Almost awesome

I loved the controller when it came in two days. After using I noticed the right analog stick sticking when I tried turned it to the left and it made it super annoying to use. Also I couldn't get it to work with Assassins Creed even though it is suppose to work great and I'm using the 9.7 iPad with IOs 11. I'm going to return mine for a new one because I love the quality and the gamesbthat it does work with.

Anita2u

August 23, 2018

Learn from the foolish king

It was like opening an early birthday present when I received this controller today. I was anticipating it and looking forward to it greatly. I'm going to say straight ahead this is completely my fault. So I went into Bestbuy two days ago wanting to price match a ps4 controller that I could use to play Fortnite on my Mac only to have two of the employees tell me "the wireless ps4 controller doesn't work on older versions of mac" which is a complete LIE I believed. I bought this controller desperately not even bothering to see if it's compatible with Fornite I just cared that it was compatible with Mac as apparently most controllers don't seem to work with mac (according to the Google.) Like I stated earlier I got the controller delivered to me today and I opened that package up quick and immediately hopped onto my mac and launched Fortnite to test out this bad boy. As eager as I was I quickly found that Fortnite only recognized the analog stick on this controller and not the D-pad despite me switching the controls to X-box 360 in hopes that would solve the issue as the controllers are similar. I was a dummy. Clearly, Fortnite allows for x-box or ps4 controllers ONLY yet I kept pushing for it to happen to work ever so desperately. I've been craving Fortnite for days and wanted to play "like a pro" with a controller. I stupidly spent $5 downloading the joystick mapper app from the app store trying to set this controller up to work with Fortnite. I spent time researching something that couldn't happen despite Google telling me it couldn't work I was so blind in wanting a way. I then realized it wasn't the controller itself it was the game itself and it was me, I ended up spending more money than I should've just to play Fortnite how embarrassing. I have peaked the lowest humanity can go. So I decided to go to my local video game store and before he could finish saying "or new" I blurted out "USED" and purchased a used Ps4 controller named The D (according to Bluetooth), (because bish I'm broke and trying to save SOME coins) I didn't even bother to confirm whether it would work or not with a Mac this time, I didn't care one bit. I used an android charger that I surprisingly had laying around because, I don't own a PS4 and didn't even think about buying a charger earlier that day for it, and I connected that puppy to my Mac and BAM my dream of playing Fortnite became a reality. Who says PS4 controllers don't work on older macs now huh? I have the late 2013 MacBook pro retina 15'' in case ya'll were wondering. Ok back to the nimbus controller itself. I like it honestly but I just wanted a controller in order to just play fornite so I will be returning this sadly otherwise it will just be collecting dust. It's easy to connect as well. I tried it out on my iPhone as and it works with Minecraft woo! (even though I don't play it any more thought I'd test it out.) This nimbus controller is only compatible with so many games to be careful to research what it's compatible with before purchasing and avoid being that dummy (me). It's not the controller's fault, in the end, it's the games fault for not offering compatibility with different controllers besides Xbox and PS4. I will also tell you that this Nimbus controller wouldn't work with Fortnite mobile either. I can't tell you much about this controller such as battery life because I only used it for so much time trying to set it up to work fully with Fortnite but I can tell you that it's light and slim (I have long skinny fingers lol.) So long nimbus controller it was fun while I had it but it just wasn't for me. 5 stars for shipping and the product being as advertised.

Four Stars

Perfect. It just needs 2 things

Yes, as the headlines suggests it is perfect, but just needs two things, it needs analog sticks that you can press down on to make first person games easier to play and allow you to sprint much easier in “Minecraft: Pocket Edition” for example. The other thing needed is compatibility with a bigger range of games like “PlayerUnknownes BattleGrounds” or “Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies” for example. But I can tell you right now it makes “Pac-Man” and “Minecraft” a hell of a lot easier to play, so if you play them, boy do they have the controller for you!

Pubg is 🙅‍♂️

Nice controller but unfortunately it does not work with pubg 😤 you can move and that’s about it

Does not work on all games.

The build quality is really nice. Overall it is a good product. But there is a limited amount of games that it works on. Please get it to work Fortnite. Biggest game on iOS right now.

David M. Smith

February 20, 2018

Works with iPhone6plus Minecraft... BUT is NOT what is pictured!

Seems to be working great with Minecraft on my iPhone 6Plus. That is the main reason I bought it. The star rating is hard to give as the product I got was entirely different from what I expected, what was pictured and what was described (see pics). It works so I’ll keep it.

CompuTerra.kg

February 9, 2018

Play like a BOSS!

Amazing gadget! Tnx to Steelseries for this gamepad. Connection very easy, not nessesary setup, just connect and play!

With Nimbus compatibility lot of games: World of tanks, Real Racing, Asphalt, Sky Gsmblers, FIFA, Minecraft, GTA...

If you separately purchase Apple “Lightning Digital AV adapter” with HDMI, and connect your iPhone or Ipad to your home TV - you will play games at big screen with high quality of picture and sound! It will be looks Like PS or XBox

A must for every Ipad owner!

I just have to say that this controller gave a new life to my Ipad. I revisited some racing games and some fps, let me say that it was a completely different experience. So far I can’t recommend it enough. Just do yourself a favor and buy it.

Great for streaming PC and PS4 games

Been using it with Moonlight and R-Play on my iPad Pro and it works very well.

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BarefootInAk

August 28, 2017

I love it

I was a little bit skeptical and buying this controller at first upon receiving it the packaging was perfect the controller is amazing the plays Minecraft pocket edition flawlessly would recommend this controller to my best friend Willy Nelson

Meh

August 21, 2017

Do NOT use for Steam or Macbook Pro/OSX

DO NOT USE FOR OSX OR STEAM. This controller worked GREAT for iPhone. I played Transistor and didn't have to do any mapping. I played Cueist (a pool/billiards game) and it was just excellent. The relief it should have been switching from tapping on the screen to controller input.

Then I purchased Cueist on OSX for my Macbook Pro. The game has an input page and an ON switch for MFI controllers. Those did nothing. The game didn't register any input.

Trying to use it in steam was the biggest headache and confusing as hell. SOMETIMES it registers the controller with it's name, otherwise it just says "Generic" blah blah blah or something else nondescript. It registers every button press in the controller configuration screen. Then it inverts the Y-axis on the left stick and does the same thing for every game. The controller only works halfway decent in the actual Steam Big Picture mode. Again, it will map every button, but then when you try to play a game it will be completely jacked up. JUST BUY A STEAM CONTROLLER.

or apple tv.

It works!

So far so good! I thought I had an issue with it. It working with a game it was supposed to work with but I just had to turn the controller on after the app was running. Keep that in mind before tossing this aside as broken. So far, I can confirm it works with KOTOR and Lego TFA.

Love it

I got this to play minecraft on my iPhone 7 plus (and I'm not an 8 year old boy lol) anyways it works great. Took it out of the box, connected to my phone. Minecraft worked great. We'll see about other games

FM510

August 15, 2016

Best controller for Apple products

Best controller ever for Apple products I was very happy with this buy makes playing gta San Andreas way easier

This is a quality controller!

This controller is awesome, bought it back in 2016, haven't used it in a couple months, charged it up this morning and realized this controller hasn't had battery failure, no issues with the hardware, no random disconnects when playing.

This is a solid, comfortable, good quality controller that will last.