You can't really speak about competitive gaming these days without at least mentioning Hall effect (HE) tech. Scuf knows this, too, of course, and it's finally announced it's adding the technology to its two main PC controllers.
Corsair (which owns Scuf) tells us that both the Scuf Envision and Envision Pro with Hall effect will be available in just over a week's time Yono all app on May 29, 2025. That's if you get one , but if you get it elsewhere, other sellers will have to clear through non-HE inventory first before rolling out HE versions in August.
Despite acknowledging that some might think the Yono all app company has been "taking our sweet time with it," Corsair defends taking that time: "Effectively, we spent the last two years really digging into this technology" and now it's at a "maturity level where we feel like it's in a stable place." Corsair first told us this was coming at Computex last year, so it's definitely been meticulous at the least.
It'll be great to see Scuf's main PC-oriented controller featuring the tech and going some way to better justifying that high price tag. In addition to great build quality and feel, you're also getting a ton of buttons, including some macro keys on the front, these being part of what distinguishes the company's PC-oriented controller from its other ones.
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One final thing to note is that if you already have an Envision or Envision Pro controller, you're not left entirely out of the performance party. Scuf's clearly been spending some time working on its calibration and so on, and it tells us that some of these calibration benefits should be coming to the non-HE controllers that are already out there:
"We've spent a lot of the investigation and all the stuff that we've learned doing the calibration for the Hall effect, we've applied now to the standard analog states. So we can extend the life of your current controller with all the new calibration functions and the dead zone controls in the controller. So that should help a lot—at least extend the life of those who have the current version."
It's not quite the same as having Hall effect tech under thumbs, of course, but it's certainly better than nothing.