HyperX Cloud Core Wireless Gaming Headset Review
In mid-October, I was browsing the Best Buy web site clicking on gaming headset listings, as I’m prone to do. The site’s algorithm popped up a product I’d never heard of in the “recommended” list: the HyperX Cloud Core Wireless. I got excited. I clicked through, and saw what looked like a cheaper $99 take on the $150 Cloud II Wireless, complete with an industrial design that mimics the classic frame of the original Cloud series.
I emailed my contacts at HyperX PR, and they let me know that the headset was planned for release some time in November, and that they’d be in touch. I nervously watched Best Buy’s stock in nearby stores, and was tempted to order one with shipping and see if it would show up. I’ve been anticipating a wireless variant of the classic Cloud design for over four years, and although the Cloud II Wireless is an excellent headset and one of my favorites, it made enough design improvements and changes to feel like its own new thing. I’ve also tried some knock-off attempts at this concept, but they didn’t have the same excellent sound performance as HyperX’s in-house stuff.
HyperX didn’t send me a review unit in time for today’s launch of the headset.
