It’s been a while since we’ve seen a new Xbox or PS5 controller from Scuf, the Corsair-owned brand that prides itself on making high-performance, customizable gamepads. Beyond the Nomad, a mobile controller that rivals the Backbone One, and the Envision Pro, an Esports-coded pad for PC players, Scuf has been pretty quiet since 2020.
Today, however, the brand is launching the Scuf Valor Pro, a new, officially licensed Xbox Series X controller. Except, it’s missing some of the things I personally expected from a new Scuf pad in 2025. For starters, it’s a wired-only controller, which makes no sense in the current climate of Xbox-licensed peripherals from Turtle Beach, PowerA, PDP, and Razer that are finally going wireless.
Although Scuf is known for its highly personalized design-builder, the new Valor Pro is only available in a few distinct colorways, with the only customization ability on Scuf’s website being the ability to choose a few different faceplates. You can grab the Valor Pro today in either steel gray, black, white, or smoke colors depending on your retailer, but you won’t be able to choose custom stick and button colors.
Scuf Valor Pro | $99.99 at Scuf Gaming
The Scuf Valor Pro is now available direct from the Corsair-owned brand’s site. Buying from Scuf itself gives you a small discount on additional case accessories ($5 off the $14.99 MSRP) and opens you up to a range of different colorway options as well. The standard ‘Smoke’ version is priced just a hair under $100, but alternate editions can see those numbers rise to $109.99. Buy it if: ✅ You don’t mind a wired connection
✅ You want plenty of back buttons
✅ You have larger hands Don’t buy it if: ❌ You sit far away from your console Price check: Amazon: $109.99 | Best Buy: $109.99
On the bright side, the new Valor Pro has a lower price than a lot of the pro-controller competition from other big-name brands. At only $99.99/£99.99, it’s a full $50-$60 cheaper than the likes of the Victrix Pro BFG for Xbox, the PowerA Fusion Pro, and the Turtle Beach Stealth Ultra. That pits it directly against the Razer Wolverine V3 Tournament Edition, which is a wired, more affordable version of Razer’s latest performance controller.
(Image credit: Scuf)
The Valor Pro sports four back buttons and space for three on-board profiles. It also has Hall Sensor thumbsticks to prevent stick drift, and Scuf’s representatives on a press briefing call told me the reason they’ve taken so long to adopt this thumbstick tech is that they’ve been relentlessly calibrating it to feel as close to traditional potentiometer sticks as possible.
The Scuf team members on the call also noted that the reason they chose to go with a wired-only option is that after polling the Esports athletes they work with and asking their customers, apparently, they found that wired connections are
Scuf’s latest controller is wired-only, because that’s
