A month ago, I wrote a piece asking, “what’s going on with the Razer Viper Mini?” You can find it right here.
To sum it up if you don’t want to click, earlier this year Razer turned their budget performance gaming mouse darling (The Viper Mini) into a nightmarishly high-priced “premium” mouse (the Viper Mini Signature Edition), and then also stopped shipping the classic version to retailers. It left their hardcore fans scratching their heads, wondering if they’d ever see a cheaper wireless model, or if they’d be forced to spend a wallet-melting three hundred dollars to get a new take on this beloved design.
Well, the answers are finally here — and they aren’t great.
Razer has more or less replaced the Viper Mini in the mainstream market, rebranding it as “Cobra” instead. It’s now available in two models. The first is a forty-dollar version that changes almost nothing compared to the old, wired Viper Mini. It has the same now-outdated sensor at the core, but the buttons have at least been updated to Razer’s newer third generation optical switches. Still, this is more or less the same old Viper Mini with a very minor cosmetic tweak, and a price point pushed right back up where it started, quietly defeating the Viper Mini’s…
