| Price | Amazon |
| Release | Circa August 2025 |
| Compatibility | PS5 / PS4 / PC |
| Dimensions | 15.0″ x 10.0″ x 2.8″ |
| Weight | 4.52 lbs |
| Cable | 3 m |
Introduction
Imagine you’re in control of the Starship Enterprise. Actually, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick makes you feel like you’re in control of the starship with its whopping 12 aux buttons, five lights, and two toggles!
Unboxing
The Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s packaging is pretty barebones as in not really coming in a branded box or with a bunch of free accessories. Still, it’s packaged safely, and it’s impressive how detailed its multilingual manual is.
On a side note, it seems like the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick is primarily manufactured in China, whereas Germany seems to have a partial role backstage.
Performance
The Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick has eight buttons in the Vewlix layout. At the time of this writing, the Vewlix layout is probably the second most popular layout after the Noir layout. Both layouts allow your fingers to rest on the buttons in a fairly natural formation.
Having said that, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s buttons feel clunky, and their travel distance means that they require force to press. It’s not that they’re stiff; it just feels like force is the best solution to mitigate their travel distance.
As for the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s joystick, it feels taller than average. The joystick is around 2.3″ tall if you measure it from the dust washer to the ball-top’s tip, bringing the arcade stick’s total height to around 5.1″ (if you add the joystick’s height to the case’s height). The joystick is also looser than average. To mitigate this, you’ll just want to be a little more precise with your motions.
Moving on, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s many aux buttons are for:
- PS
- Create
- Options
- Auto turbo
- Turbo
- Clear
- L3
- R3
- Macro
- M1
- M2
- M3
Yep, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick has three programmable custom macro buttons—each being able to store 16 commands. So, you should be able to map custom combos that way with just one button press.
Otherwise, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick also includes a touchpad, and the toggles are for:
- DP/LS/RS
- On/off
Not gonna lie… The Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s on/off toggle is quite a rare feature. Meanwhile, you may already know that DP/LS/RS stand for D-pad, left stick, and right stick.
Anyway, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick has a slope for your palms. In fact, the whole top panel is sloped, but the slope gets more intense near the palms.
Depending on your hand size, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s palm slope may or may not be comfortable. Simply put, those with bigger hands may find half of their hands dangling off this palm slope.
Hardware
Surprisingly, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick feels sturdy—maybe like a sturdy type of plastic—and it weighs enough to be stable on your lap or desk. Just take heed that this arcade stick’s four feet may not feel like the most even.
On the bright side, the side grooves allow you to carry the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick more easily. As for the braided nylon USB-A cable, it comes out of the back left.
The Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick actually has a compartment where you can store that USB-A cable when not playing. This makes traveling with the arcade stick easier, and it offsets the USB-A cable’s lack of detachability.
If you’d like to mod your Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick, you’re in for a challenge partially because it’s not that easy to unscrew. If you flip the arcade stick over, you’ll likely find the screws to be hard to access. This is one of the reasons that this arcade stick is only recommended if you like its stock parts.
Appearance
The Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s joystick is red in a way that adds some much needed nuance. If you flip the arcade stick over, you can reveal its real name: the RH T15 Arcade Stick.
More importantly, you’ll unveil the nicely textured black surface down yonder, and the black feet are a nice match aesthetically. The Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s sides are black too.
Conclusion
The polarizing Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick operates in what seminal author Nassim Taleb would call Extremistan, meaning that its negatives can feel really negative, while its positives can feel really positive.
Whichever looseness the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick’s joystick may exhibit, and whichever clunkiness the buttons may exhibit, they feel like they’re somewhat balanced out by some really rare features like having many aux buttons, including macro buttons, as well as carrying grooves and a braided cable with its own storage.
All in all, the Nonbliep Wired Arcade Stick is most recommended for the casual fighting gamer, someone who’d like to try an arcade stick, someone who’d like to have a backup arcade stick for guests, or simply someone on a budget.
- Vewlix layout
- Dozen aux buttons
- Couple of toggles
- Macro feature
- Turbo support
- Moderate weight
- Carrying grooves
- Cable storage
- Braided cable
- Textured bottom
- Detailed manual
- Palm slope not for everyone
- Not the most even feet
- Loose joystick
- Clunky buttons
Rating
⭐⭐⭐