Turtle Beach often delivers innovative gaming accessories, but the upcoming Stealth Pivot Controller for PC and Xbox is still something extraordinary. In addition to the usual premium features like Hall Effect anti-drift thumbsticks, adjustable trigger stops, 20 hours of battery life, and four programmable buttons (with up to five profiles), you can change them on the fly depending on the genre you’re playing.
The company presents its curious idea in the press release like this:
“The standout feature of the Stealth Pivot is the unique, rotating thumbstick and button control modules, which provide easy, precise and enhanced gameplay for any game type. A layout offers traditional PC and Xbox gamepad controls, and the modules can be easily rotated and Locked back in place to create a stick and button layout more suitable for fighting games.”
Does that seem strange? It actually is, and this concept is best illustrated by the video below. There you can observe the rotating modules that allow the controller to be transformed from a device optimized for first-person shooters into a combat pad in a very short time.
The head of Turtle Beach himself comments on this somewhat strange controller as follows:
“Turtle Beach’s Stealth Pivot brings a new level of innovation in controllers by giving gamers the ability to play more of their favorite games with one controller. The Stealth Pivot’s unique rotating modules that switch between traditional, fighting game, FPS and MMO “Switching button and stick layouts is an industry first, and its premium design and compatibility with PC, Xbox and via Bluetooth make it a great controller for playing more games on more platforms.”
Stealth Pivot releases on November 26th and costs £119.99 / €129.99 in TurtleBeach.com and other well-stocked gaming stores. Treating yourself to one of these just in time for Christmas?
