Turtle Beach put drift-free sticks and a screen on its new $200 controller for Xbox and PC
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Turtle Beach is throwing its hat in the premium controller ring with a new $200 gamepad for Xbox and PC called the Stealth Ultra Wireless Controller, launching on December 15th. But instead of simply adding some rear buttons and hair triggers — the hallmarks of most competitive-focused gamepads — it’s also packing drift-proof Hall effect sticks and a 1.5-inch screen capable of both fine-tuning settings and getting notifications from your phone.
In addition to being Turtle Beach’s first foray into the ultra-pricey gamepad world, competing with the likes of the Xbox Elite Series 2 and Scuf controllers, it’s also the company’s first fully wireless Xbox Series X / S controller (following a trend of Microsoft slowly opening up its wireless licensing while shutting some third parties out). It doesn’t connect quite as effortlessly as stock Xbox gamepads, but the Stealth Ultra uses a simple USB-A dongle that can be plugged into its included dock — tying up only one USB port on your Xbox console or PC for both connectivity and recharging. And, arguably most importantly, the Stealth Ultra can remotely turn on an Xbox console even though it connects via a dongle (something that unfortunately isn’t the case over in PlayStation land).
The Stealth Ultra also has a laundry list of premium features you normally find in $150-plus controllers, like four programmable rear buttons, hair-trigger lockouts, tactile microswitches for its face buttons and bumpers,
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