It was designed to be the ultimate solution for demanding gamers willing to spend extra to solve charging once and for all.Īt the time, there was still a stigma against wireless gaming mice, and battery life was part of that - while the Razer Mamba and Logitech G900 convinced me that low-latency gaming was possible over wireless, neither could hold much of a charge after a couple years of use. That was kind of the idea, recalls Andrew Coonrad, who was technical marketing manager on Powerplay (and wrote the reviewer’s guide) back in 2017. (Find a generous brother-in-law while you’re at it, too.) For a year, I plugged in my mouse to charge and kept on using it with a little bit of drag. Even the least expensive compatible mouse, the G703 Lightspeed, will typically cost you $70 on sale - and the Powerplay charging pad rarely goes on sale at all.īut you could do what I did: get the mouse, use it until the battery bugs you, and then add Powerplay. But that’s a $140 mouse, and there’s no discount on a bundle with both. It probably doesn’t hurt that I’m using it with the Logitech G502 Lightspeed, our pick for the best wireless gaming mouse, whose comfortable grip, loads of well-placed clicky buttons, incredible performance and adjustable weight put it head and shoulders over the also-excellent, also-wireless Razer Mamba and Logitech G900 I owned before. Some users have DIY’d the Powerplay into larger mousepads, but this is the only size Logitech sells. Seriously, it’s been three months, and I’ve never had to lift a finger - because it charges all by itself. Snapped the magnetic puck into the bottom of my mouseĪnd then, I never thought about charging my mouse again.Plugged in the Powerplay’s USB cable instead.
To give you an idea, here is the complete description of what I did once I received this product: Logitech’s been selling it since 2017 - nearly as long as Apple has subjected us to the upside-down beetle. What you’re looking at here is the Logitech Powerplay Wireless Charging System, effectively a mousepad with a wireless charger that magnetically beams electricity to a special puck. Logitech Powerplay, with G502 Lightspeed mouse.