illram
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Creative are aiming to release an update to the G6 before the end of the month that adds Voice/Game balance for PS4 users. If that's the case, this product is pretty redundant - except for being able to connect to it with a mobile app to change settings. If they had just launched an updated G6 with that feature it would have been a far better solution imho. A dongle like that just doesn't work in a lounge set up as far as I'm concerned.
It seems to be how they operate. Just in recent memory, the G5/E5 (confusingly overlapping products), their multiple versions of VSS (one of which is terrible), the release of the Super X-Fi dongle (they marketed it for phone users at first even though phones basically lack any 7.1 PCM surround content), the odd functional limitations of the X3 (no line out??) etc. etc.
I love that Creative takes risk and pushes forward this little niche segment of gaming/media technology, and they do seem to manage to make good products most of the time despite this, but man their marketing and product line decisions are just really head scratching sometimes.