How many buttons does a gaming mouse really need? Who needs an 8200 dpi sensor, anyways? With Logitech's first new gaming mouse in a while, the Logitech G602, it's all about the batteries. Certainly, the $79.99 peripheral has 11 fully programmable buttons, the chassis feels well-sculpted to the hand, and its 2500dpi optical sensor feels precise in the palm. But the exciting part of the G602 is that it's a wireless mouse, one that Logitech claims can last far longer than any other wireless gaming mouse on the market.
With a pair of AA batteries in full performance mode, the company claims it can run for 250 hours on a charge, or switch over to an "endurance" mode for over 1,400 hours of runtime. (Compare to our current favorite wireless gaming mouse, the Razer Mamba, which ekes out 16 hours.) You can even remove one of the two cells if the combined coppertop weight slows you down (since the mouse requires only 1.5 volts to run) and still get a full 125 hours of play.
Logitech's Todd Walker concedes that the mouse's 500Hz report rate (compared to 1000Hz in top-tier mice) and 2500dpi sensor might not attract gamers looking for every last iota of competitive advantage in certain twitch games, but says those numbers are too often overrated. The G602 sounds like it could be unparalleled in terms of convenience. Logitech says the G602 should be available online this month, and on store shelves in September.
Comments
2500 dpi and 500Mhz polling rate wouldn’t make this mouse a great choice for most gamers. For the same price you could get a wired mouse with twice the dpi and faster polling and wouldn’t even need to bother with batteries.
By CaptainAnywho on 08.27.13 4:04am
“Gamer” you call yourself? If you think DPI and polling rate matter this much you are very wrong.
The DPI density give the sensor more resolution to see even the smallest details when you move (useful to work on a lot of different surfaces), but it’s actually almost impossible to play 1:1 with that amount of DPI, you need to artifically make it slower in software or turn down the DPI to get any use out of it. 2500DPI is plenty for a gaming mouse.
Now back to your polling, you realize how fast 500MHz is? You won’t even know there is a difference if it runs at just 100MHz.
What matters is latency which is a bit related to your polling rate but even just 100MHz is enough, not the DPI/Polling spec race.
By Sorto on 08.27.13 5:37am
Lucky for us, and battery life, the polling rates are 1000Hz and 500Hz, not MHz… Mice just wouldn’t be comfortable with big, accurate MHz and GHz class oscillators in them… plus there’d be no benefit at that speed – you know how fast that is?
Assuming you meant to type 500Hz and 1000Hz/1kHz, that’s 1ms vs 2ms, which, when added to human reactions, delays through the screen and processing of the mouse input, might add up to be greater than just that time. So that adds to your latency. and 100Hz is completely unacceptable – 10ms between mouse state changes is definately going to be noticed.
By DJHibby on 08.27.13 6:18am
Yeah sorry, didn’t mean to retype the MHz bs, also 100Hz is definitly to slow i must agree plus i don’t think any gaming mouse actually supports that, but 250Hz(4ms) is going to be plenty and if you really want to be sure go with 500Hz that’s more than enough, not even a professional starcraft player will notice a difference in 1kHz and 500Hz, could be for 250Hz but unless you are really in that league, you definitly won’t.
By Sorto on 08.27.13 9:14am
A “professional” any kind of RTS player won’t notice, sure. But a “professional” FPS player sure as heck would.
By Sir_Brizz on 08.27.13 11:49am
In a blind test? I doubt it. Like in any other enthusiast field, there’s so much placebo and bullshit involved (coffee snobs, monitor input lags, audio cables, the list goes on..)
By randomname123 on 08.27.13 1:29pm
Absolutely, and it works even better if you use monster radio waves rather than normal every day radio waves….
Monster radio waves slow down time (or speed up the speed of light, however you want it), putting you 1ms in the future.
You’re the don with Monster radio waves.
By Fdge on 08.27.13 3:59pm
Haha, yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Sir_Brizz on 08.27.13 7:21pm
I know my play style probably isn’t that common, but I use 6400DPI on my mouse for gaming. I have a low DPI button toggle on the side I hold for precise aiming.
But yeah, for most people, 2500DPI is likely enough.
By species0 on 08.27.13 3:36pm
6400?! yikes. I have mine set to 1200 and that feels almost too twichy.
By DrDenim on 08.27.13 3:37pm
I had to work my way up to it, but I love it now. 1cm of mouse movement ≈ 1920px.
By species0 on 08.27.13 3:41pm
Shit…I run 2300…
By Jake Hartman on 08.29.13 12:59pm
Said no real gamer ever. If people could do goddamn Quake stunts and across-map headshots in Counter Strike back in the 90’s with much slower DPI and polling, they could do it with this. 500hz polling is hilariously fast, way faster than your own reaction times and your own vision.
By Cool Matty on 08.27.13 4:20pm
Looks a bit grubby… Or is it refections?
By BoardDWorld on 08.27.13 4:05am
You’re right on both accounts. There are reflections on the palm rest along with the material having a “textured” type surface. It looks grubby because they are not product photographers and did not photograph the mouse before they used it or had multiple pristine samples ready to be photographed.
The grubby you see is also a bit of sensor noise.
By PremierePrimo on 08.27.13 6:33am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTTmQ7C0-U0
By Lina Sandtner on 08.27.13 7:47am
Smartphone manufacturers take note.
By Elrando the Wonder Horse on 08.27.13 4:11am
Even though I recommended this, smartphones also have screens and much more powerful hardware to power, so you would need something more than the 1000mah or so in a AA battery.
By thervp on 08.27.13 9:57am
I have a Logitech M525 that still has the package batteries in it. I bought it a year and a 1/2 ago.
By King Lo on 08.27.13 4:12am
Do those 125hours (5 days and change) include standby time? Because if so than it is really crap. I have a wireless mouse that lasts about a month on a single AA and before that i had one that lasted about the same on 2xAAA. Sure, the mouse does “go to sleep” if i don’t do anything with it for x amount of time and i have to click one of its buttons to wake it up, but it does last way longer than this mouse.
By VoxMediaUser607339 on 08.27.13 4:15am
It’s a “gaming mouse”, which needs to report back to the pc more often to be able to use all those dpi’s, thus the battery time is less. My G700 lasts at the most 1 day at peak performance.
By Canto on 08.27.13 4:21am
Sounds like the Eneloop that came in your G700 is degraded.
I have my G700 set for 1000 hz polling and I’ve been getting 2-3 days of “wife’s not home” gaming sessions on a single charge. I get over a week of regular use at that polling rate.
By Daraok on 08.27.13 10:29am
I just don’t believe this. I run at 1000hz polling rate and my G700 is dead in 1.5 days (as in I use it for a full day, then the next day I realize I fucked up and didn’t charge it over night, and then I have to use shitty wired mode (I fucking hate the cable…) and I’m on all day…like 7-8 hours or more.
By Jake Hartman on 08.29.13 1:03pm
The 250 hours of power from 2 AA batteries in Performance mode was determined by a “run to die” test. With the sensor in continual activation, we run the mouse until the batteries are dead. You can use a single AA battery for 125 hours of continual use.
Endurance mode will sleep the mouse when not in use to extend the battery life. In day-to-day (non-continuous) use our model estimates 1440 hours of use between battery swaps.
By ToddW_LogitechG on 08.27.13 11:28am
Thank you for chiming in!
By Lina Sandtner on 08.27.13 2:23pm