I like mine, maybe you will too
If RPS is going to wave around Amazon Prime Day recommendations, they might as well be for hardware we’d actually use, and ideally for kit that at least one of us owns ourselves. So it is with the SteelSeries Arctis Gamebuds, true wireless earbuds that have supplanted my Sennheisers as my pocketable sound providers of choice – and are currently 26% off at both Amazons UK and US.
These were the first gaming earbuds I used where that label didn’t just amount to marketing nonsense and a design language comprised of the sole word “spiky.” Having identified that Bluetooth is too laggy for game-requisite responsiveness, SteelSeries bundle the Arctis GameBuds with a tiny 2.4GHz radio receiver that enables a much lower-latency connection. This makes them damned near perfect for portable handheld PCs (yer Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go S, what have you) where bulky headphones or wired earbuds are either too big or too fiddly. Sound quality, meanwhile, is rich and bassy enough that I’ve started using them with my phone (they can swap instantly between 2.4GHz and Bluetooth modes) for music duties.
I present these deals with the caveat that they’re for the black Xbox version, not the white PlayStation edition I have, though both will work equally fine on Windows and SteamOS. Interestingly, the UK discount is also the only one that strictly needs an Amazon Prime account; Amazon US seems to just have them on a standard discount. Actually, I’ve just checked and Best Buy have them at an identical price, so feel free to go there if you’re disinclined towards the big A.
