The brand new SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5 headset is the most recent addition to the model’s Nova line of gaming headsets – however this launch comes with a twist.
Arriving alongside the headset is the brand new Nova 5 Companion App. It permits gamers to browse and decide from greater than 100 recreation audio presets designed and optimized by consultants, execs, and recreation builders.
It will assist you to go from a profile designed to select up on distant footsteps in on-line first-person shooter (FPS) video games like Apex Legends, to one thing extra finely tuned to the small print of an open world like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – all with a number of faucets in your cellphone.
Apart from compatibility with the app, the headset itself provides a spread of high-end options. There’s QuickSwitch wi-fi performance to alter between Bluetooth 5.3 and a pair of.4Ghz connections merely and rapidly; and a claimed battery lifetime of round 60 hours.
Throw within the trademark high-quality drivers and microphone, and a few extraordinarily versatile wi-fi connectivity – the dongle allows the Nova 5 to be out there on practically all platforms relying on the variant you get – and it’s trying like a terrific possibility for a PC headset, PS5 headset, Xbox Collection X headset, and Nintendo Change headset.
Whereas a brand new mid-range wi-fi entry into the road isn’t a lot of a shock, SteelSeries has outlined the philosophy behind the product. In designing the Nova 5 SteelSeries engineers and designers had been concentrating on three targets: “create higher audio for the video games individuals play on Xbox and PlayStation; develop a wi-fi gaming headset that’s each premium and accessible; and permit avid gamers to play longer and more durable.”
Ehtisham Rabbani, SteelSeries CEO, stated of the launch: “The introduction of the Arctis Nova 5 and Companion App, with over 100 audio presets, is actually ‘game-changing’ and gives customers with an epic audio benefit for console gaming.”
Whether or not or not it’s really game-changing will rely upon gamers and their very own preferences and experiences in video games, however having that quantity of presets inside arms attain, optimized by consultants for video games is definitely an attraction.
Concentrating on the area of interest of “reasonably priced luxurious” with the Nova 5, the bundle on supply is on the market now for $129.99.
Going fingers on
I’ve been testing the Xbox variant – the Nova 5X – of this newest wi-fi gaming headset and have been very impressed with it thus far.
The headset itself is a cracker. It’s received good audio out of the field and the sturdy and slick design that the model is thought for. It rests tremendous cozy in your head, the controls are intuitive, and the versatile connectivity means I’ve been capable of take it onto each platform for play (and for work) too. By itself, it’s an excellent little bit of package.
Nonetheless, the expertise actually does come alive once you workforce the headset with the app and flick via the handfuls of presets. There’s virtually an excessive amount of selection – however in a great way. Even in case you can’t discover the one on your particular recreation, there’s going to be one which’s related sufficient to check out.
The Arctis Nova 5 and Companion App (out there on iOS and Android) is out now, and you’ll learn extra in regards to the headset in my full SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5 evaluate coming quickly.
