Ohsnap arrived at CES 2026 with some swagger after shipping 16,000 preorder units of their MCON controller. The company announced two new design iterations: the MCON Slim and MCON Lite. Both are thinner, more affordable alternatives to the original magnetic sliding gamepad, though the Slim won’t arrive until the iPhone 18 launches this fall.
The MCON Slim is the more ambitious of the two, designed to fit a full controller’s functionality into something roughly the thickness of a MagSafe battery pack (like a double-wide GameSir Pocket Taco). It magnetically attaches to your iPhone’s back and slides out or off when needed, with a cutout that accommodates camera bumps, keeping lenses accessible. The triggers feature 3mm of travel, the D-pad and face buttons are physical, and the joysticks use touch-sensitive surfaces instead of physical analog sticks, a compromise that will likely be a dealbreaker for many readers here. It can detach entirely and connect over Bluetooth, allowing you to prop your phone at a distance for tabletop gaming.
The MCON Lite takes a different approach with 3DS-style Circle Pads instead of touchpads, positioning it as a middle ground between the original MCON’s full analog sticks and the Slim’s touch surfaces. Both devices eliminate the spring-loaded pop-out grips from the original model in favor of a more compact form factor.
Pricing is expected around $60 for the Lite, which launches this summer, with the Slim arriving this fall at a presumably higher price point. Both remain prototypes without finalized specifications, but Ohsnap’s seemingly successful track record with their first MCON suggests they’re more likely to deliver than some hardware crowdfunding campaigns.
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Please be cautious about giving this company any of your money. Announcing two new versions of the MCON controller when there are still a LOT of people who haven’t received their Kickstarter orders of the first MCON is not a good look.
Oof, good to know. I was excited about that Lite option as it sounds more like what i would want, but I’ll wait and see and be careful to not pre-order anything
Sold my kickstarter purchase. Way too thick and defeats the purpose it intended. Seems disingenuous to announce this after making backers wait a year for a immediately outdated version.
I kickstarted the Mcon and got it last week. It’s genuinely fantastic. Anyone complaining that the one they pre ordered is obsolete now is foolish. The analouge sticks alone make the “pro” model worth it. And the thing is already so skinny if it was any smaller it’d be uncomfortable
Last time I support this company, i just received my order yesterday and its already an obsolete model… ridiculous.
Pretty bold to claim the already shipped 16000 units of the Kickstarter units, quite surprised to read this from you guys.
I’m backer 29xx and I still have not even received a shipping confirmation. There are tons of people on hw same situation as me on reddit and Kickstarter comments, some people in the first thousand of early backers.
I hone see you hope you edit this article and address this on the next live.
Didn’t back but purchased once announced on the website. I received no communication from them as far as shipping and had to reddit dive to find out an ETA on shipping. Research showed delays for Kickstarters pushing the delivery dates into Dec 2025. As some of the comments mention there are still Kickstarters waiting on product. I fought through their customer service bot to finally make a ticket so they would reach out ( the bot kept saying my order didn’t exist). I was told it would ship soon. Fast forward to 2 days ago and I get an email my order is ready to ship. Why are there still Kickstarters waiting but you’ll ship mine? Fast forward again to today and the tracking has not updated yet and says it’s still waiting on the parcel. So tl:dr just wait for full release if you want something from them as it appears some people are getting product but there’s no guarantee you’ll get it in the order the order was received.
Getting fed up of different websites glazing OhSnap and peddling the outright lies about how they’ve successfully shipped to so many backers.
They definitely haven’t shipped to a very large number of us, maybe try some real journalism?
Start asking the backers what’s really happening, you’ll find out that even the earliest backers like myself (I was one of the first 400) haven’t received even a shipping confirmation, or how about other backers who’ve been charged twice the amount of taxes because OhSnap didn’t pay duties correctly, where did that money go?
And now just to make things worse OhSnap start parading around slim versions, and people ordering directly from their site have already received their MCons whilst year old backers get nothing.
I hope Dale is barred from any future Kickstarters, ideally they shouldn’t be allowed to do business given that they breached Kickstarter ToS once they started selling and shipping directly before we recieve ours.