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Last week, I confirmed the Prime Day pricing for the GameSir G7 Pro, as well as a few of the brand's other controllers during the sale. The most recent PC version of the G7 Pro was missing from that list of discounted products though, which is to be expected when it's only been available for a little while. Walmart has remedied that, however, jumping the gun on Prime Day and dropping the best PC controller rival down in price by almost $20.
Personally, I'm not convinced this discount will last very long, either due to the deal ending or stock levelling out. Since I can't see the offer at any other retailer, I don't think it's an official one that's come down from on high either. As in, it doesn't seem like a GameSir-approved discount that'll apply to all the variants of the G7 Pro 8K at various stores, so let's take a closer look.
Funnily enough, Amazon currently has no answer to the discount, despite Prime Day being the headline sale to look out for this week. In fact, the GameSir G7 Pro prices I reported on last week still haven't arrived at the retailer and likely won't until Prime Day officially kicks off on June 23rd. One upside of this, however, is that you don't need to take out a Prime membership or a free trial to make the most of it.
An equivalent deal doesn't exist at Best Buy either, which makes me think this could be a shorter-lived opportunity at Walmart. It also only applies to the Nioh 3 colorway, which may point to Walmart's stock of this particular model outweighing the other versions.
While you save $18 on the full price of the GameSir G7 Pro 8K, you do spend $8 more than you would on the regular G7 Pro if you were to wait for Prime Day gaming deals to officially start. For that extra money, you do unlock a much, much higher polling rate, which will absolutely be of interest for competitive players who want to rule out any chance of latency impacting their gameplay. You also get some swappable thumbstick tops that the regular version doesn't have, but you'll lose out on Xbox Series X/S compatibility.
Having gone hands-on with the 8K polling TMR controller, I can say it's definitely more responsive, but the increased polling rate doesn't present itself in the way some of you might expect. It essentially cranks the sensitivity of the thumbsticks up to 11, making them a tad unruly at first. Combined with custom deadzones and TMR technology, every tiny input on the thumbsticks will register, and register fast, so using it definitely takes some getting used to.
Personally, I don't think this model is going to be for everyone, partly because of that learning curve, but with even more ways to customize it, I'd argue PC players should really think about investing the extra $8 for it over the original. The only limiting factor might be the colorways, since the regular white/grey and black/red options aren't available for the 8K model. Besides the Nioh 3 version, you can grab a turquoise Aimlabs edition (the one in the images that I reviewed) or a Champion black and gold colorway that's tied to an Esports athlete.
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