Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra Review

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“It feels a bit cheap.” Our first reaction to the Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra was not a good one. In fact, you can count our second reaction to that as well. From there, it has seriously grown on us.

Search Google and you’ll find a seemingly endless list of articles and videos declaring this controller an Xbox Elite killer. Well, my Xbox Elite killed itself. I didn’t need gimmicks, I needed a solid device for PC gaming.

So obviously I picked the controller with the screen in it.

Yes, that section at the top of the controller in the image above is an actual tiny screen that you can use to control almost everything about the controller, as well as receive social media messages. And while I found myself rolling my eyes at the concept, it has been a genuine game changer.

But I’m getting ahead of myself.

The Xbox Elite controller feels premium. That’s until it falls apart in your hands. It’s heavy, it’s comfortable. It feels like you’ve bought a premium controller.

The Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra does not feel like that. It’s light. Its plastics feel cheap. But the cost of it is anything but.

Honestly, it’s not that bad. Spoiled by the Elite, the immediate comparison was very much not in the Ultra’s favour. It was an immediate disappointment.

But the proof was in the playing, and so I plugged in the included dongle and leapt into a game. It disconnected repeatedly for an hour. I nearly wrote it off as a failed experiment. I put the dongle back in its holder on the charging stand, when it leapt into life and we’ve had no problems since. Some people online have speculated the dongle has some issues with heat, but whatever the problem, the controller has connected flawlessly since then. Anybody who has tried to connect an Elite controller via bluetooth will tell you what a miracle that is. An actual wireless controller without needed to mess around with additional dongles or bluetooth drivers?

From there, I’ve only become more impressed.

Let’s get the obvious out of the way