PowerA has a unique set of items built to appeal to serious gamers who may have succumbed to the lure of mobile gaming

PowerA gone to live in step-up its peripheral game in 2012, with a sharp new logo to check out its products. I obtained to invest a while considering several of its flagship offerings for later this season within a recent preview tour through Big apple and people that take their gaming seriously definitely involve some neat toys to check forward to.

Also inside an entire world of console Wii Controllers could be the Fus1on, a superior-end, tournament-friendly gamepad for Ps3 and Xbox 360 console that is supposed to entice the eSports crowd. Backlit buttons complements the fashionable matte black surface and analog sticks. A compact button for the rear from the gamepad could be pressed to cycle the lighting through its five different color options.

The construction is very nice with responsive, click-y face buttons, a highly-defined D-pad, and a thick, braided 10-foot cord extending right out of the back on the controller. There is also an included rubber cord management that can also become a bracelet in case you have the Fus1on connected. The high-quality build reaches to the Fus1on's innards at the same time, with a metal mechanism underneath the hood offering more durability. It is the analog sticks as well as the shoulder buttons, however, which help much this controller's design stand out from other sellers.

Seasoned gamers will immediately realize that both analog sticks are shorter than you'd typically see using a first-party Wii Accessories . The thumb grips presents itself each of them are also wider, and slightly concave. Taken together, the tweaked analog stick design is meant to offer players more precise control over stick movements. It felt directly to me, though some players do prefer a greater portion of an increasing analog stick (see also: KontrolFreek).

Using the shoulder buttons, the all over the place triggers have a shorter pull, offering a marginally quicker reaction time for many who feather their FPS shooting for additional accurate burst fire. Their responsiveness falls anywhere between the more springy Xbox 360 elite triggers as well as the mushier Ps3 triggers. Meanwhile, the top shoulder buttons are molded to wrap around the perimeters from the controller, offering players more convenient access no matter what their grip is like.

Speaking of which, the Fus1on also features interchangeable handgrips. A toolkit contained in the package includes a tiny Phillips head screwdriver useful to eliminate these screws from they can be kept from the video game accessories . Players can opt between a harder molded plastic grip along with a softer rubberized grip. The whole lot comes packaged in a hard-shell zip case, with sufficient space inside to house the Fus1on and its particular accessories.

PowerA has a unique set of items built to appeal to serious gamers who may have succumbed to the lure of mobile gaming. The large downside to bringing console-style play to touch-based tablet and smartphone interfaces could be the control. You lose many of the feeling you obtain coming from a gamepad when you are manipulating virtual analog sticks and buttons on the screen.