8bitdo Ultimate 2 Wireless Review

It can be safely said that the range of 8bitddo controllers is overwhelming to the uninitiated, with a wide range of options to choose from. But at least it Ultimate 2 wireless collection It’s elementary. You have the final 2.4G controller, Ultimate 2C Wireless (which we checked at the beginning of this year) and this: Ultimate 2 Wireless. Okay, so maybe it’s not that elementary.

Suffice it to say that Ultimate 2 Wireless is the best of three, at least on paper. What you have is Xbox-Layout GamePad, which has the latest latest Thumbstick and Trigger technology, combined with the charging base, which doubles as a pile of 2.4 GHz and many additional buttons and functions.

Let’s start with sticks. To throw the drift out of the image, 8bitddo used tunnel magneto (TMR) sensors. Most of this ILK controllers, including the above -mentioned Ultimate 2C Wireless, exploit the Hall (he) effect, so what is the difference?

They both exploit magnets movement in the bases of their thumbs to cause tension in the sensor, but TMR is more sensitive and precise than he and requires less power to act. In compact, this is a better technology of these two, although of course it is a little more exorbitant.

The triggers do with Hall’s effect sensors (you can’t have everything!), But the result of both choices is that you will never get a drift in any of the critical moving parts. It also means that you can be extremely precise with thumb and triggers, much more than, for example, with a standard Xbox Microsoft controller.

It is hard to put a difference of sensitivity to words, and taking into account the restrictions on the movement of both mechanisms, it is hard to capture with any recording equipment. You just have to believe how good checks are.

I am a massive fan of racing games, especially F1 and MotoGP, and in the case of the latter sensitivity to liberation is crucial for avoiding failures during severe braking and acceleration. But although they are good and triggers, I have some criticism.

The first of them is that both are very lithe and I would prefer them to have a slightly greater resistance to movement, especially triggers. You can block the latter by using switches at the back of the controller so that they have a very compact projection, but no mode seems perfect to me. Thanks to the stiffer source you will receive more feedback, making it easier to assess how far you pushed them.

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This is a better situation with cans, but most of the resistance to pumps is early in the stick. I would prefer them to push more when you approach the end, how far you can move them. As today, you lose some minor control within the extremes of the stick.

Despite this, at least they feel wonderful to exploit, and the pleasure is to have such a good level of control in a elementary trigger. Both sticks and triggers are much better than those in a normal Xbox washer. However, I did not deal with the material used for cans, because after an hour of playing in Forza Motorsport, my thumb began to crack.

It can also be the shape of a cup, a stick at the top, which causes a problem. Where the standard Xbox Gamepad uses a tender bowl, 8bitdo Ultimate 2 Wireless is raised in cup cups and is not tender.

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Something else power Problem with the overall Ultimate 2 Wireless shape. As you can see in various images above, the “arms” of the controller are practically elementary – Akin to Nintendo’s Switch Pro Wireless and Sony PS5 Dualsense – and are a bit compact for people with huge hands.

The angular arms of the Xbox controller are more comfortable to me, although it is not that 8bitddo efforts seem terrible. Small differences, however, are essential over time and with the problem of crossbow, I discovered that I can exploit the 8bitddo controller for no more than a few hours at once, while Microsoft did not cause any problems for many hours.

To say, it is a bit dependent on the game. I was able to play Clair Obsurpur: Expedition 33 without feeling discomfort, so maybe I just have to adapt the way I exploit the controller in more crazy games. If your hands are smaller than mine (see below), you probably won’t have any problems.

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One thing that everyone will be concerned about is D-Pad. I can’t say that terrible, But in my opinion it is quite close. The feedback is muted, the material seems unpleasant, and the whole thing is done cheaply. Compared to the rest of the Ultimate 2 Wireless, this stands out as a bit of reflection.

Not the basis for charging that doubles as a 2.4 GHz wireless club. Lay the gamepad in the base, and the fine white lithe of the problems from the bottom, saying that it refreshes the batteries. Lift the controller and he immediately revived; It is so speedy that you would swore that the gamepad was already dynamic.

Speaking of wireless connections, Ultimate 2 Wireless in 2.4 GHz mode seems absolutely perfect. I would like to try it in Bluetooth mode, but for some strange reason it only works with Android devices. If you travel a lot and take a laptop with you, you will get stuck out of bringing the base (and is quite huge), pulling the 2.4 g of the key from the base and take it with you (and you risk loss) or using the controller in type C wire mode.

Despite this, at least you get many other functions to break away from this restriction. How about six -axis gyroscopic control or adjustable RGB LEDs in thumbs? What about additional shoulder buttons and rowing buttons? Heck, even has a “turbo” button. And the excellent Ultimate Software V2 application makes it a piece of dough to adapt virtually every aspect of the controller.

You may think that all this technology means that the price is terrifying, but absolutely not. With a penny of $ 60/50 GBP, this is almost the same price as Xbox Gamepad from Microsoft. You can see how the cost was lowered by choosing the plastic used for the body (it is quite gritty and granular), and some from the front buttons seem a bit low-cost.

When you think about what you get for your money, the 8bito Ultimate 2 Wireless has excellent value. But is it really final Game controller?

Well, no. At least not for me. I think that limiting the Bluetooth platform is simply strange. I think that D-Pad is almost terrible, the cans almost gave me blisters, and the overall shape is not as convenient as he could. But hey, if 8bitddo gave you everything, there would never be the best 3 wireless, right?