Razer’s been making all sorts of peripherals for PCs and consoles. Apparently, though, they’ve never had a wireless Wolverine controller for Xbox, largely because Xbox never opened its wireless protocol to third-party manufacturers. Now that Microsoft’s gaming outfit has seen fit to change their closed protocol, we’re getting the Razer Wolverine V3 Pro, a wireless controller designed with competitive play in mind.
Billed as “the definitive wireless controller,” the officially-licensed device is meant to compete with Xbox’s Elite Series 2, enabling fast and precise gameplay control while staying fully untethered. Everything about this Xbox accessory is built for performance, from the adjustable trigger actuation and bumper shapes to the rear paddles and half-dozen programmable buttons, making it a great choice for competitive players.
The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro takes on the familiar asymmetric Xbox gamepad layout, albeit with dual bumpers on each shoulder and a quartet of paddles on the back. It uses Hall Effect thumbsticks that enable more fluid control, minimize drift, and offer better resilience, all while allowing you to customize sensitivity levels, so you can refine the control feel to your liking. The action buttons and the eight-way floating D-pad all boasts ultra-fast actuation with tactile feedback, while the triggers let you customize the actuation using a toggle on the gamepad, so you can have it respond to shorter or longer trigger pulls, depending on your preferences. The extra bumper on each shoulder and the four paddles in the rear, on the other hand, are all remappable, so you can assign them to any in-game action. The paddles, by the way, wrap around the back of the grip now, rather than along the middle of the back like most paddle setups.
It uses Razer’s HyperSpeed Wireless, the same tech found in the outfit’s esports-focused wireless peripherals. You’ll need to plug in a 2.4GHz dongle into your machine to use it, though, since that what enables the lag-free gaming performance. The controller is compatible with both Xbox consoles and PCs.
The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro comes with a 10-foot braided USB to USB-C cable that you can use to charge its battery or play it in wired mode. When used as a PC gamepad, by the way, you can activate a Tournament Mode that enables a 1,000Hz polling rate to ensure it doesn’t miss even the feintest press of a button, pull of a trigger, or push of a stick. All customizations can be done from the Razer Controller App, which allows you to remap all the available controls, change thumbstick sensitivity, adjust haptic feedback, and create individual game profiles.
Other features include a claw-grip bumper shape, rubberized grips, two swappable thumbstick caps (one tall for precision, one concave for speed), RGB lighting on the Razer logo out front (of course), and a battery life of 20 hours, so it’s good enough for a drawn-out gaming marathon before needing a recharge. The whole thing comes with a carrying case designed to house the controller and all its included peripherals.
The Razer Wolverine V3 Pro is available now.