Touchpads under the sticks
A gamepad that can also stand in for a mouse is easy to dismiss as a gimmick, and just as easy to want on a living-room PC. Turtle Beach’s new Stealth Flip lets you flip its analog stick modules over to reveal dual capacitive touchpads, and it arrives alongside a cheaper Rematch Wireless with TMR thumbsticks. Turtle Beach announced both on October 27, 2026, saying they are available now at retailers globally.
The Stealth Flip’s MSRP is $99.99 / €99.99 / £89.99. Beyond the flipping sticks, Turtle Beach lists a dedicated PC trackpad for Windows navigation, two mappable back buttons, four onboard profiles, adjustable trigger stops and a 3.5 mm headset jack. The controller weighs 290 g, according to the product page, and a 3 m USB cable ships in the box alongside the wireless USB transmitter.
The thumbsticks themselves are what Turtle Beach calls AntiDrift Hall-effect units, which it says resist stick drift. Polling is where the wording gets careful: the company promises up to 1,000Hz wired on PC, and neither the press release nor the product page gives a wireless figure. Battery is rated at up to 20 hours, which the product page says depends on usage and settings.
That headset jack matters more than it sounds. If you’re weighing wired against wireless audio, our look at the Razer Barracuda V2 Pro’s dual wireless and 70-hour battery shows what the other end of that choice looks like.
The Rematch is the value play
The Rematch Wireless PC controller costs $59.99 / €49.99 / £49.99. In North America it is sold exclusively at Best Buy and on Turtle Beach’s own site; elsewhere it’s at participating retailers. Its sticks use TMR sensing, which Turtle Beach says resists drift because there is no physical contact between components, and its Hall-effect hair triggers have 3-way stops.
Turtle Beach says all three connection modes (2.4GHz wireless, wired and Bluetooth BLE) support Steam Deck and Steam Machine, and the controller supports XInput and Microsoft’s Game Input Protocol, so it is automatically recognised on Windows and PC Game Pass titles with no extra drivers. If handhelds are your PC gaming, our ROG Xbox Ally X20 review roundup covers another way to play.
Read the polling line twice. The Rematch’s 1,000Hz applies in wired and 2.4GHz wireless mode with audio off; with audio enabled, Turtle Beach says it runs at 500Hz. Battery follows the same split: up to 20 hours without audio, or 10 with onboard audio enabled.
Side by side
| Stealth Flip | Rematch Wireless | |
|---|---|---|
| Price (MSRP) | $99.99 / €99.99 / £89.99 | $59.99 / €49.99 / £49.99 |
| Thumbsticks | AntiDrift Hall-effect | TMR |
| Polling | Up to 1,000Hz wired | 1,000Hz wired and 2.4GHz wireless, audio off; 500Hz with audio on |
| Battery | Up to 20 hours | Up to 20 hours without audio, 10 with |
| Connections | USB transmitter wireless, Bluetooth, wired | 2.4GHz wireless, wired, Bluetooth (BLE) |
| Steam Deck / Steam Machine | Not stated in Turtle Beach’s copy | Stated for all three modes |
Everything in the table is Turtle Beach’s own figure. The Flip’s page doesn’t mention Steam Deck or Steam Machine, so we’ve marked that as unstated rather than assuming.
Who should buy, who should wait
We haven’t handled either controller, so this is a read of the spec sheets. On paper we think the Rematch is the easier recommendation: it costs $40 less at US MSRP, it states Steam Deck and Steam Machine support, and it spells out its polling and battery trade-offs. The Flip is the more interesting launch, and the one we’d wait on. Flipping the sticks away is a clever idea, but a mechanism like that only earns its extra money once people have put it through weeks of real play, and its wireless polling figure is still a blank.
If you want a touchpad on the pad itself to browse Windows from the couch, the Flip is the one aimed at you. If you just want drift-resistant sticks and hair triggers for less, start with the Rematch.
Prices and specs come from Turtle Beach’s October 27, 2026 press release and its Stealth Flip product page, checked on November 1, 2026. Prices are MSRPs in dollars, euros and pounds; no South African price was given.
