Undeniably, Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch have become major players in the mobile gaming market. It seems like every developer under the sun is working on iPhone / iPod game of some kind. There are lots of games out there, and a rising number of them are pretty good, but the iPhone / iPod has thus far been devoid of another major aspect of the game industry: Third-party peripherals. Until now, that is. With the release of iPhone 3.0 firmware, Apple now mentions “Third-party Game Accessories” on the iPod Touch software update page.

The iPod and iPhone already have a huge accessories market, and we’re sure that there are plenty of companies looking to carve a new niche with gaming accessories. There are no details regarding what sorts of accessories are on the way, but we’d say some more traditional input devices are a pretty safe bet.

We’ll tell you one thing, we can’t wait to see what Nyko has cooking.

[Via Touch Arcade]

Gaming accessories headed to iPhone (maybe with buttons!) originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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