You’ll either have cables criss-crossing your living room, a GameDAC laying on your bed, or some kind of contraption enabling a fix.įor this reason alone we’ve found the Arctis Nova Pro to be a slight pain to use. Sit more than ten feet or so away, on the comfort of your couch, and it’s a different story. Sit at a desk with your console dropped next to you and the job is a good un. In summary, you’re running a 5ft cable from console to base station, and then another similarly lengthed one from base station to headset. From there, it’s a case of 3.5mm-ing it from base station to headset in order to find all the audio you need. The first plugs into your console’s USB-A port, with the companion USB-C straight into SteelSeries’ GameDAC Gen 2 base station. But the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro for Xbox utilises a double cable system.
In fact, for most wired headsets, there is little issue either. If you’re using the SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro for Xbox, that is immediately an issue. It also means that for the most part we’re sat nowhere near our console.
Dropping ourselves onto the sofa or a bed, kicking back in front of the big screen and falling into the various experiences that the Xbox eco-system allows means it’s our first choice for gaming. One of the reasons for that is ease of use.
WIRELESS GAMING HEADSET FOR XBOX ONE SERIES
We’re primarily Xbox gamers and whilst we occasionally dabble in the worlds of PC, of PlayStation, of Nintendo Switch and even in the barren lands of Google Stadia (yep, we were right there with the Founders Edition), for the most part it’s the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S which powers our lives. Instead the Arctis Nova Pro connects straight into a GameDAC Gen 2 on the face of it a similar base station to the Wireless edition, just with more angles. However, things are a bit different with what SteelSeries have produced with their Arctis Nova Pro – there is no cable between Xbox pad and what sits on your head. We’re quite happy to run wired gaming headsets for our Xbox sessions, mostly as a single cable between controller and headset should rarely be seen as an issue. But on the flip side, being tied down can be enough to push some gamers over the edge. Many may swear by wired over wireless, as a cable should, in theory, deliver a better sound. For many gamers – us included – that’s rarely an issue. So what are the main differences? Well, there aren’t many, yet the headline mention must be that this one isn’t wireless.