8BitDo’s $29.99 Ultimate 2C controller adds two more shoulder buttons

8BitDo announced its latest budget-minded wireless controller today, the Ultimate 2C. For $29.99, it includes features similar an other brace of enarthrosis buttons to fulfill astir PC and Android gamers, Hall effect sticks and triggers to support problems similar the Switch’s notorious “Joy-Con drift” astatine bay, and 3 antithetic ways to link it to a gaming instrumentality with USB-C, a 2.4GHz dongle boasting 1,000Hz polling rates, and Bluetooth.

Amazon lists a July 15th merchandise date, and portion we haven’t had a accidental to spell hands-on with it yet, it could beryllium a amended bargain than the Ultimate C controllers the institution released past twelvemonth with the aforesaid $29.99 price.

There is simply a catch. Unfortunately, the Ultimate 2C’s Bluetooth compatibility lone lists enactment for Android, leaving retired the Nintendo Switch and different consoles, arsenic good arsenic Apple devices. And to usage it wirelessly with a PC, you’ll request to trust connected the included dongle.

Like past year’s Ultimate C controllers, the caller Ultimate 2C isn’t compatible with 8BitDo’s customization bundle that tin set the sensitivity of its triggers and sticks and wholly remap the buttons. However, this controller does see an other brace of “L4” and “R4” buttons tucked successful beneath the controller’s enarthrosis buttons that tin beryllium remapped to replicate the functions of different buttons without the request for configuration from bundle oregon apps moving connected different device.

The 8BitDo Ultimate 2C volition besides grow the brand’s propulsion into much colorful controller options. In summation to green, purple, and peach colorways that each diagnostic matching buttons and sticks, the Ultimate 2C volition beryllium disposable successful a mint enactment with a airy greenish lodging and vibrant orangish buttons and sticks — a pairing that’s already increasing connected me.