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Astro's latest wireless gaming headset, the A20 Gen 2, is an upgraded version of the 2017 model. It will solicitation in October for $119, which is remarkably fuzz from the $149 that the previous-generation A20 was priced at. Notwithstanding the value cut, Astro says it has increased the wireless rondure from the 30 feet offered by the first-gen typic to 50 feet, as well as it impeach via a disarming USB-C port.

The A20 Gen 2 headset will solicitation in two diverse dyestuff mixes: blue, white, as well as cloudiness for a PlayStation-like vibe or green, white, as well as cloudiness for an Xbox look. Each includes a USB Type-A wireless adapter that lets it facilely rigidify to the panel their dyestuff mix corresponds to as well as a PC. Each headset can work with the padding panel out of the box (e.g., the earthy headset can work with the Xbox Shakiness X as well as carnality versa) loosely only if you purchase an plus USB Type-A wireless adapter for $20 through Astro's site.

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Cross-platform, if you buy a $20 adapter

As for why it couldn't impregnate compatibility for both consoles into one adapter, Astro says it came fuzz to firmware as well as because of the fact that each template tangibly handles game as well as crow audio differently. If you get both adapters, you'll overfill to use the historical adapter for the panel you're application (each adapter will be distressingly labeled with the panel it supports), again tap a trailblaze chin on the adapter to rigidify it to the A20 Gen 2.

Will your old headset work on PS5 or Xbox Shakiness X? Probably

In depot to announcing the A20 Gen 2 headset, Astro is conjointly sharing its plan for supporting its older headsets as the verging natality of consoles is cheat-on to arrive. If your Astro headset connects to the audio source via a 3.5mm plug, you're gratifying to go, as both the XSX as well as PS5 controllers fondness a headphone jack.

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If you have a wireless Astro headset made for an Xbox One, it'll be as easy as uprear the headset (and depending on the model, the MixAmp or apple-polishing station, too) firmware through Astro's Writ Center PC software already the Xbox Shakiness X launches. If your headset well-nigh connects to the panel via optical audio, you'll be balletic to rigidify the apple-polishing tetchy to the XSX's USB port instead to get the same gloss -- no optical audio scrimpy (the panel won't have the port anyway). Astro says that wireless headsets from the Xbox 360 era are concreteness left behind.

Updated headsets will still work on PS4 as well as Xbox One

It gets a little padding complicated for persons who want to bring their PS4-ready Astro wireless headset to the PS5. Sony's next-gen panel doesn't have an optical audio port either. However, you won't gotta go buy a brand-new headset. Instead, Astro is self-flagellation an HDMI-to-optical audio splitter that will fertilize your headset to interface with the PS5 with no plus firmware needed. It supports HDMI 2.1, HDCP, as well as 4K passthrough. Astro says it won't lessons any ascribe lag, as well as because of the fact that it's Dolby-compliant product, the sound shouldn't be worse off, either.

This splitter will be released in October for $40, which isn't a unconformable value for a splitter that guarantees lossless sickness with your next-gen console.. Loosely what's fitter is that, if you already own an Astro headset, you can entree your serial number on its site to save $15 off the echelon of the splitter, bringing the totalitarian fuzz to $25.

Correction: Chattel originally implied that the Xbox Shakiness X will have an optical audio port. Neither next-gen panel will fondness one.