I still suck at Apex: Legends, mind you, but this mouse didn’t make me suck any more than usual (or less, unfortunately).
The highest praise that I can give to a wireless mouse is that latency didn’t once come to mind while I played some games. (Its included USB adapter has a report rate of 1ms.) During my time with it, those claims seemed to hold true the G502 Lightspeed has the level of responsiveness that I come to expect from a wired mouse. Its Lightspeed wireless capability claims to deliver “better than wired” performance when it comes to latency. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Even if you decide against the PowerPlay and are generally against mixing wireless mice with gaming, the G502 Lightspeed might tick enough boxes to make it a worthy purchase for you. Priced at $149, Logitech is charging an almost $100 premium for these two big features, and one of them can only be enjoyed by those who also own the $99 PowerPlay wireless charging mouse pad. Its feet are the only pieces that could be salvaged from the old design.
Logitech told me it was scared to change basically any facet of the mouse, but it said that it had to change almost everything internally in order to fit in its new low-latency Lightspeed wireless tech and add the ability to wirelessly charge by way of its optional PowerPlay wireless charging mouse pad. Oh, and its Lightsync LEDs light up in some very nice ways. At first glance, it doesn’t look very different it still has 11 customizable buttons, it includes a range of weights to tweak how quickly (or slowly) the mouse can be dragged along your mouse pad, and it’s still comfortable to use for hours on end. Logitech’s new G502 Lightspeed is a wireless version of the company’s beloved G502 Hero gaming mouse that’s available today.