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HyperX’s New Wireless Mouse Launches with Price Increase
Earlier this year at CES, HyperX announced a refresh of their excellent lightweight and affordable mouse family, the Pulsefire Haste series. Boringly dubbed “Pulsefire Haste 2,” these new mice sought to keep everything good about their predecessors while also introducing a higher-end sensor and a new hole-less frame design.
As I mentioned in my original piece about these, the wired version was to see a ten dollar price increase from $49 to $59, but the wireless version was supposed to stay at its same market-busting $79 bucks.
Unfortunately, that hasn’t happened.
These mice both launched earlier this week, and the Pulsefire Haste 2 Wireless now carries an $89 price tag, ten dollars more than its target in the original announcement. The big new feature here is an upgraded PixArt sensor, but the rest of the mouse is enough of an unknown that I’m not yet sure how to feel about this new higher price. Is HyperX hoping to sell both the first and second versions of this mouse at the same time and have different price points for each? Did they run into some sort of manufacturing or pricing challenge behind the scenes? I can’t really say, but it’s undeniably a bummer.
