What’s the most you’ve ever spent on a computer mouse? For the vast majority of people, the amount probably doesn’t exceed £20 – and even for PC gamers, the most popular mice tend to fit into that £20 to £40 window, like the £38 Logitech G502 or £18 Razer DeathAdder. Add on wireless, or high-end components, and you might be looking at double that figure. – including the highlight of today’s piece, the Finalmouse ULX Prophecy, which costs one hundred and fifty of your Earth pounds.
For that steep asking price, you get a mouse on the cutting edge of current trends, featuring an ultra-light 38 gram design, responsive 8000Hz polling and impeccable wireless connectivity, not to mention an eye-catching level of ornamentation in the colours of top esports players. But can mouse be worth recommending at £150?
Practically speaking, no – you can get a great ultra-light gaming mouse that resembles the Finalmouse ULX Prophecy for a fraction of the price, especially if you’re happy to forgo mainstream manufacturers like Logitech, Razer and SteelSeries for smaller name Chinese manufacturers like Lamzu, Fantech, Zaopin or Epomaker. There’s only a brief window where features like 8000Hz polling or swappable mouse switches are actually novel, and then they’re quickly adopted by a huge variety of mouse makers at ever-lower price points – which is good for consumers, if not for innovators.
Yet there’s still something of a mystique about the Prophecy. Part of this is the over-the-top “hypebeast” marketing that Finalmouse is known for – they even claimed that every Ultralight 2 mouse they sold back in 2019 had been taken to Cape Town and blessed in a five-day ceremony – but there is some genuine craft here too, on top of impeccably good in-game performance.
The Prophecy is full of small touches that reflect the decade of experience that Finalmouse has had in creating lightweight gaming mice. Every surface your fingers touch is solid and slightly texured for extra grip, while hexagonal cutouts elsewhere cut down on weight. Internal reinforcement prevents any flex when squeezing the mouse hard, preventing accidental clicks.