GameSir G7 Pro Review

A batch of high-end features are trickling down to much affordable crippled controllers these days, and that culminates successful promising pieces of hardware similar the GameSir G7 Pro controller, which combines tri-mode connectivity, TMR joysticks, accelerated poling rates and a full batch much to go a superior menace for costly controllers. The GameSir G7 Pro costs conscionable $79, but is acceptable to rival the $179 Xbox Elite Wireless Series 2 controller and adjacent the $199 Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra successful galore respects.

GameSir G7 Pro – Design and Features

The GameSir G7 Pro looks a spot similar a emblematic Xbox controller but with immoderate unsocial aesthetic choices. It inactive has humble looks, but it’s besides hiding immoderate precise absorbing aspects. Behind its plain achromatic faceplate and bland grey grips, it’s hiding a afloat transparent sheet that shows done to the circuit committee and 2 of the 4 vibration motors. If you privation the transparent style, you tin readily region each grip and/or the faceplate successful immoderate combination.

That’s conscionable a tiny spot of the customization and flexibility that the G7 Pro brings to the table, too. The controller offers 3 D-Pad options. It has trigger locks. It has other paddle buttons connected the underside that besides see carnal fastener switches. It tin tally wirelessly with a dedicated dongle oregon usage a hardwired connection, and some enactment a 1,000Hz refresh rate. It tin link to mobile devices and much implicit Bluetooth. A peculiar (removable) cablegram retainer tin assistance brace the cablegram transportation truthful it’s little apt to get damaged oregon travel unplugged during play. And that’s each earlier getting into the bundle customizations.

You tin slot GameSir’s USB-A transmitter dongle straight into a PC for wireless gaming. A charging dock is besides included successful the package, and it has a compartment for the transmitter dongle, truthful you tin harvester them astatine your table for elemental connectivity and charging successful one. The charging dock is thing special, offering a basal basal for the controller with pogo pins akin to what we’ve seen from akin 8BitDo controllers. There’s a adjuvant airy connected the dock to corroborate erstwhile the controller is charging truthful you won’t travel backmost to find it dead.

The hardware of the controller itself is precise respectable. GameSir chucked mushy membrane switches and went each out. The ABXY and D-Pad get clicky micro switches similar you’d find successful a gaming rodent oregon high-end controller similar the Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra. The triggers get nuanced Hall Effect sensors with short-throw trigger locks that person them to micro switches arsenic well. The enarthrosis buttons consciousness basic, but GameSir acceptable an other acceptable of customized enarthrosis buttons adjacent to them, and those get the clicky micro switches arsenic well. The 2 customized underside buttons don’t consciousness similar micro switches, but adjacent they are satisfyingly clicky. And the joysticks usage TMR tech for accuracy and consistency that shouldn’t pb to instrumentality drift successful the agelong term.

For responsiveness, the controller besides supports a 1,000Hz polling complaint connected PC whether utilizing a wired oregon wireless transportation (not Bluetooth though).

While astir of the controller is hard plastic, the handles and joysticks get rubberized worldly with a diamond-pattern texture. This proves bully for grip, though tin get a spot grimy implicit time.

GameSir G7 Pro – Software

The GameSir G7 Pro has aggregate apps. There’s 1 for mobile that doesn’t bash thing beyond letting you trial that each input is functioning. The GameSir Nexus app for PC is what you request to truly get into the nitty gritty customization. In the app, you tin swap retired fastener assignments, set effect curves and behaviour for the triggers and joysticks, acceptable up and tune gyro controls, and customize the 4 vibration motors. You tin besides acceptable up 4 antithetic profiles.

As almighty arsenic the app is, it’s not without its faults. It often likes to disconnect from the controller, kicking you backmost to the landing leafage and taking a fewer seconds to get backmost into customization. This back-and-forth hand-off besides makes it that overmuch slower to marque adjustments, trial them successful a game, and past power backmost to tweak them. A batch of things aren’t good explained successful the app either, truthful figuring retired what you’ve changed tin sometimes beryllium a substance of guess-and-check.

Even without the app, determination is immoderate customization available. The controller supports on-the-fly fastener mapping for its 4 other buttons. This entails simply long-pressing the M fastener and a desired other fastener simultaneously past pressing the fastener you privation mapped to it.

While it’s a shame GameSir doesn’t connection each this customization for the mobile app arsenic well, settings adjusted connected PC tin transportation implicit to mobile arsenic well. For instance, I acceptable up the gyroscope for aiming behaviour successful the PC app, and past connected to mobile implicit Bluetooth and saw the gyro proceed to run successful this manner.

GameSir G7 Pro – Gaming and Performance

The GameSir G7 Pro provides an fantabulous gaming experience. Throughout my testing, it has near small to beryllium desired. Through my sweatiest brag fights successful Hollow Knight, the grips helped maine support a bully clasp connected the controller. The microswitches for astir of the buttons are fantastic for fast, responsive gaming, and each input registers with a snap. The quality to crook the analog triggers into short-throw microswitches besides helps retired large clip for responsiveness, letting maine dash successful an instant successful Hollow Knight portion avoiding the other strain of repeatedly pulling the trigger each the way.

The controller handles nuanced input well, too. The joysticks registry subtle movements accurately, and the triggers tin swap from snappy to modular analog triggers and alteration much precise control. Running astir successful Battlefield 6, the controller was an close input tool, albeit not rather astatine rodent levels. The enactment to alteration the gyroscope helped successful immoderate circumstances, though I could ne'er get it to enactment perfectly. It tended to beryllium a small jerky erstwhile emulating a controller input. When it emulated a rodent input, it was acold much responsive and accurate, but it was besides prone to precise sudden, unpredictable camera movements if I touched the close joystick astatine each portion aiming. This made it mostly unreliable. Fortunately, for anyone who’s already large astatine joystick aim, the controller holds up well. The joysticks person grippy tops that tin get a small grimey aft a spot of use, but it’s not hard to clean

The G7 Pro’s operation of 4 rumble motors supply some almighty and subtle vibration that adds immoderate other magnitude to games. The headset jack besides provides convenient wireless connectivity for headphones and speedy methods for adjusting chat and crippled measurement equilibrium (on Xbox) and muting your microphone.

Throughout testing, the wireless transportation has been stone solid. While gaming, I’ve ne'er experienced a drop-out adjacent successful environments with tons of vigor interference. The 1,200mAh artillery has besides proven long-lasting. It apt helps that there’s nary show oregon RGB lighting connected the controller. Regardless, I was readily getting GameSir’s estimated 10-hour artillery life. Though unless you’re playing marathon sessions, that artillery beingness tin beryllium astir irrelevant, arsenic the charging dock makes it casual to ever person the controller topped up aft gaming sessions.