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Razer's first controller with Hall effect joysticks is the $200 Wolverine V3 Pro for Xbox and PC

The Wolverine V3 Pro introduces Hall effect joysticks for the first time in a Razer gamepad, and it’s also the company’s first fully wireless controller for Xbox consoles.

The rear paddles have been reimagined since Razer’s Wolverine V2 gamepads — they’re now horizontal bars that curve around the grips, two per side, rather than vertical buttons clustered near the center of the body. The most accessible storefront for drift-immune controllers is 8BitDo, which offers a range of wireless and wired gamepads for Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, PC and Android, plenty of which use Hall effect tech. The face buttons and mouse-click triggers sound great and feel crisp, while the joysticks are precise — they require a little more force than the wireless Forza Horizon 5 Xbox controller I generally use, but they’re nice and accurate.

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