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This handheld accessory is made to accommodate and elevate your mobile gameplay experience, be that on a smartphone or a tablet.
"Hello everyone and welcome to another Gamereactor Quick Look.
As time goes on, we anticipate that regardless of some reservations, even by myself, game streaming will be more prevalent as we build out network areas, speeds, coverage, all of that stuff."
"So, by that measure, what is probably going to happen is that not only are you going to be playing mobile games on your phone, but if you don't like mobile games, which I inherently don't, I think they're deeply ethically compromised, made to meander you through busy work in most cases and offer you lesser experiences than their PC and console equivalents."
"But even with that, you might be gaming more on your smartphone as time goes on in the near future because you'll be inserting your phone into a controller, for instance, or using a PlayStation Portal or a Logitech G Cloud, and you'll be beaming console games directly onto these screens."
"Because why not, if you think about it?
You can purchase a PlayStation Portal, which offers, like, think an LCD panel or an LED panel at lower hertz, at lower peak brightness levels, at worse battery levels, or you could use your iPhone 17 or your Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra, whatever the case might be, or even a OnePlus phone with a couple of years old, and you'll get a better OLED panel with higher peak brightness, with higher hertz refresh rate, that will last you longer on a charge, and that you already own."
"So buying a controller for your phone makes all the more sense than buying a dedicated device.
So if you were to buy something like this, it could be the GameSir G8 Plus Galileo MFi.
The Galileo MFi, I really don't really understand it.
The MFi protocol is obviously something which means that there is more official support happening on Apple products in particular."
"It is simply that the Apple product will recognize it as an official piece of accessory gear, rather than something committed by a third party.
But the idea is the same as we've seen, for instance, with the Razer Kishi.
You have your phone, you slide it into the USB Type-C port here, you elongate it or extend it a little bit, and once the phone is slotted in perfectly nice, you let go, and it will squeeze with these little indents here, which extrudes, grabs onto the device, and off you are to the races."
"Now, once the phone, or even, which I think is crazy, an iPad Mini, because this can actually fit the iPad Mini, it's that big, or even smaller Android tablets, like there's a lot of give here, once it connects, it will recognize this as a controller, and you're ready to go, essentially."
"From there, you can boot the Xbox Game Pass app, you can boot other game streaming apps that runs on either iOS or Android, if that is what you want.
That is pretty cool."
"You have passthrough to charge the device at the same time, or a headphone jack.
Good.
Or, if you just use your AirPods, they'll connect straight to it.
So, if the streaming experience is good, then the GameSir G8 Plus should offer you a pretty good experience."
"And this is freaking cool, I have to say.
For one, first, finally, we get something which is not small.
I have big hands, and this is very comfortable.
It is very akin to, I think, like an Xbox Series controller, maybe slightly smaller, but the way that it is sculpted, the way that they have sort of created this texture at the bottom of the grips, just makes this feel much more comfortable to hold in longer stretches of time, next to something like the Razer Kishi, or even the Backbone."
"Now, these triggers right here, and the analog sticks, are Hall Effect, both of them.
I have yet to see really good evidence that they are better or more responsive than other means of creating these analog sticks and triggers, but what won't happen is stick drift."
"So, you know that you won't be experiencing those kinds of issues at the very least.
The rest are membrane, and some would want them to be mechanical.
I really don't see why. These feel great, both the D-pad and the face buttons as well, and you pretty much get everything that you want right here."
"The good thing is that because this little USB Type-C port sits on a swivel both sides, you can actually have quite a thick cover on your phone.
I've always looked at it as such a compromise.
If I have a cover on my phone, for instance, and I have to take it off my phone in order to use it, no, this has to be a one-stop shop deal."
"So, I'm sitting on the train, I have a little time for myself, I very quickly slide my phone in, put it in, and that should be good to go.
I shouldn't be able to remove stuff that protects my phone in order to use it, which this won't.
And it also just means that it can be used on a really wide variety of small tablets and phones and work right out of the gate."
"The one big caveat here, I think, is portability, because this is as small as the GameStar G8 Plus is going to be.
Like, it cannot be folded, it cannot be packaged down, because of the way that it basically allows for these big devices to be slotted in, and it is so robust, it weighs 252 grams."
"I mean, this is neither light nor portable.
So, maybe in future it would be great if it could snap in half and then be folded inward, because you can't really have this in like a coat pocket.
Let's say that you're just waiting on a bus stop, you have 30 minutes, the network coverage is good enough, you won't be carrying this in your pocket, will you?
It can have a space in your backpack, but not in a small bag or pocket, which I feel like it would be great if it could."
"Still, the GameStar G8 Plus is not expensive.
I think I saw it for around 70 euros, 80 euros, which feels good, and it's cheaper than the Razer Kishi in many places, as far as I could see.
So, a really careful, sort of considerate recommendation here."
