HyperX Hopes to Crush The Premium Mouse Market

Will they overcome their prior firmware difficulties?

Official HyperX marketing image.

Barely a year after launching the excellent-for-the-price budget conscious HyperX Pulsefire Haste Wireless gaming mouse, the HP-owned company is prepped to throw it in both the proverbial and the literal trash.

Nothing stops the tech progress train, I guess?

A few weeks ago, HyperX announced at CES that new versions of both the wired and wireless Haste will launch later this spring. Cleverly named the “Pulsefire Haste 2,” these updates ditch the hole-filled frame, upgrade the sensor, lighten the internal PCB design to keep the weight low, and offer better performance specs — at least on paper.

The original Haste models were pretty darn unbeatable at their $50 and $80 price points. The Haste 2’s wired version gets a slight price bump up to $60, but with that comes 8Khz polling support, a remarkably low 53g mass, and a new sensor. The wireless version stays at $80, and though the official specs seem to indicate it loses the 8K support of the wired option, it still has a newer high-grade sensor inside and the same svelte 62g mass of the original model in spite of lacking holes.

I actually liked the hole-tastic frame of the original Haste. It was one of the better hole-filled…