This controller can change the layout of its face button labels

GameSir’s caller Tarantula Pro controller is designed for aggregate gaming platforms, including the Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PCs, and Steam devices. To marque switching betwixt those platforms a small easier, some the layout and the labels of the controller’s look buttons tin beryllium changed.

The $69.99 Tarantula Pro addresses a communal occupation experienced by gamers with aggregate consoles. The Nintendo Switch uses a clockwise fastener layout of X, A, B, and Y, portion the Xbox, Steam Deck, and mobile controllers for Apple and Android devices usage a Y, B, A, and X layout.

The GameSir Connect mobile app tin swap the functional layout of the Tarantula Pro’s look buttons backmost and distant (between Switch and Xbox modes according to idiosyncratic penchant oregon crippled compatibility, adjacent though this won’t enactment arsenic an Xbox controller), portion pressing a operation of buttons connected the controller itself activates a motorized mechanics that rearranges the look buttons’ labels.

The controller can’t alteration immoderate musculus representation you’ve built up for 1 layout oregon the other, but the labels volition astatine slightest supply a reminder of which buttons you should beryllium pressing.

The Tarantula Pro isn’t conscionable a one-trick pony — oregon arachnid. It tin link to gaming devices implicit Bluetooth, a USB cable, oregon utilizing an included 2.4GHz dongle for reduced lag. It besides offers NFC truthful you tin usage Amiibos portion connected to the Switch, rumble feedback, and includes a built-in gyroscope for games playable utilizing motion-based controls.

Many third-party controllers person agelong abandoned the potentiometer sticks liable for the Switch’s notorious “Joy-Con drift.” But alternatively of opting for magnetic Hall effect sticks arsenic GameSir uses successful its T4 Cyclone and Cyclone Pro gamepads, the institution is utilizing newer tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) sticks on the Tarantula Pro that it says are much sensitive, much accurate, and usage little power, without being susceptible to drifting issues implicit time.

The Tarantula Pro offers 9 mappable buttons, including an other brace connected the back, down the grips, that tin beryllium wholly disabled to forestall accidental presses. It besides features Hall effect triggers that tin beryllium switched to a “hair trigger mode” with shorter question utilizing a brace of switches, improving absorption times for FPS games.

The controller adjacent has built-in RGB lighting, including a portion of accent lights, a glowing location fastener (which tin beryllium utilized to aftermath the Switch), and light-up look buttons.

The GameSir Tarantula Pro is available for preorder now done the company’s website connected its ain oregon arsenic portion of a $79.99 bundle with a basal that volition besides complaint the controller’s 1,200mAh battery.