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This is the Xiaomi Gamepad!

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October 8
by chris eilers

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Xiaomi Mi TV and MI BOX owners who are into gaming can now enjoy Xiaomi’s very first Xiaomi Gamepad, which beginns shipping now to customers in China.

With Xiaomi’s aggressive global expansion strategy, Xiaomi has become a major player in the phone market and also tablet market with products like the Xiaomi MI4. Not unlike Apple, Xiaomi also extends their programm vertically into customer living rooms with with the MI TV, MI BOX and also now the Xiaomi MI Gamepad.

China has just recently lifted the banning of consoles and opened up the doors for that market. Xiaomi is using that to launch the new gamepad, which can convert the Xiaomi MI TV and MI BOX into Android Gaming Stations.

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If you have a look at the pictures, you can see that the Xiaomi MI Gamepad is very similiar to the XBOX 360 controller or other PC Gamepads. We see the common two dual analogue sticks, the direction pad and an action button to the right and on the top of the Xiaomi accessory.

So far Xiaomi has only been shipping the Gamepad to a few lucky customers in China with a very special discount price. As with the MI4 and other Xiaomi devices, international customers have to wait for the full production of the Xiaomi Gamepad before they will be available officially or via resellers.

Xiaomi Gamepad photo

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We actually like the Xiaomi MIpad, so probably will try it out these next coming month, given that we cant get one. How do you like the Xiaomi Gamepad? Do you fancy buying one?