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,

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.

A long time in the making, Backbone Pro delivers the best-in-class mobile controller experience, but it's the evolving app that's worth staying for.