Anbernic has announced its first wireless controller

Anbernic is expanding its extended lineup of handheld consoles to see wireless controllers with the uncover of its new RG P01, which features Hall effect triggers and joysticks “with minimal drift,” according to the company.

The Anbernic RG P01 features an Xbox-style Y, B, A, and X fastener layout that tin beryllium switched to a Nintendo-style layout done software, but it’s not yet known if reconfiguring the controller is done done a desktop oregon mobile app.

The controller is compatible with PCs, the Nintendo Switch, Steam devices, iOS, and Android; wireless connectivity includes enactment for Bluetooth 5.3 arsenic good arsenic a 2.4GHz transportation for reduced lag. Anbernic hasn’t confirmed if a 2.4GHz USB dongle is included for gaming devices that don’t natively enactment it, but the controller tin beryllium utilized with a USB-C cablegram if you privation to skip wireless connectivity altogether.

The usage of Hall effect sticks and triggers should assistance prolong the beingness of the controller, but determination doesn’t look to beryllium switches connected the backmost of the RG P01 limiting the question of its triggers to amended absorption times for FPS games. The controller does see an other brace of buttons down its grips that tin trigger preprogrammed macros erstwhile pressed individually oregon successful sequence.

Anbernic has adjacent included a six-axis gyroscope for playing Nintendo Switch games that enactment motion-based controls, positive RGB accent lighting astir each joystick — a diagnostic the institution has precocious started to see connected immoderate of its handhelds, similar the RG 406V.

We don’t yet cognize what the RG P01’s artillery beingness volition be, erstwhile the wireless controller volition beryllium released, oregon however overmuch it volition cost. The controller’s features are comparable to the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C. which debuted past June for $29.99, though the RG P01 includes enactment for much devices. If Anbernic is targeting a akin price, that vantage unsocial could marque its archetypal controller worthy considering implicit 8BitDo’s budget-minded offerings.