This review deserves more attention. Most reviews of trackballs are from people who dont use trackballs and they dont compare them to eachother. The best part of your review was the big difference between the pressure needed for moving the ball. Ive had multiple trackballs and have never found a balanced one for gaming, when it came to quality of precision movement as well as scroll and button features. Thank you for your review.

I've been a Microsoft Trackball Explorer user for 19 years now so you have no idea how much this review helped shape my decision on pursuing this product. I've literally just been hunting down Trackball Explorers that have been repaired or refurbished over the years but it's getting expensive and exhausting to do so. I will say I'm worried about the scroll wheel being moved because access to that scroll wheel is big for me as an avid FPS player but I will take this review into heavy consideration.

I have one as well. Best trackball I've ever owned, and I've had a bunch. Yeah, Eric is a cool dude.

What a great review im using a Kessington slim-blade trackball of which seems good, but I have hurt my finger scrolling on the normal trackball pro, so I'm very pleased to find this Gameball it looks to be what I need

Great Review! Thanks so much for actually mentioning that the ball moves smoothly and easily (this is one of the most important features to me and almost every other review I have read fails to mention this). I used a Logitech Trackman Marble Trackball Mouse for at least 10+ years now and it has been discontinued. I tried the Huge but the Huge is actually just fits a medium sized hand (US size). An employee with smaller hands than mine loves it. I am a large and it is way too small as your wrist floats in the air instead of on the desk or on the mouse as it should (for a sizing guide standard XL gloves from the US are way too big for me). While the Gameball is about $148 vs $24 for the Trackman the Trackman only lasted a year at the most and the ball was very hard to move and definitely not professional in the first place. Anyways thanks for the great review as I was about to buy 5-10 mouse pads and cut them so that my Large US hand would fit on the mouse properly but I would really rather try a Gameball mouse first as finger fatigue is a real issue if the ball is hard to move after about 4 or more hours using a worn out trackball mouse. One last quick thing I also bought two Kensington Orbit mouses and they were good mouses but ridiculous that they were made to fit a childs size hand (not ergonomic at all).

I am upgrading my gaming equipment. Saw your video here and ordered a gameball. I have been a track ball user forever and glad I found a nice one. Was at best buy and they said track balls are not really popular. Maybe not but I love them.

Thank you for such a clear review.

I love the sneak peak of your Steam Deck!

The horizontal scroll just sold it for me. Great review, thanks!

Thanks for the review. I currently have an elecom HUGE as well. I'm now on their website ordering one :)

I really appreciate this video. I have nerve damage and started gaming during the pandemic. I have only ever used a thumb trackball mouse. I am now looking for a better trackball mouse for gaming.

I appreciate the well timed review as I was looking for possible trackball replacement to use from a bed or sofa. I normally use a mouse but it doesn't seem as feasible without a hard surface Since I am not a sole trackball user, I do find the coast of 148 on their site, a bit too high for me.

After watching your video I'm sold!!!

if you are playing a multiplayer game you might want to try a mouse accel driver like "raw accel" which lets you setup a sensitivity based on how fast you are moving the trackball which is more intuitive, granular and faster than swapping between game and precision mode manually.

Wow, looks cool, and comfortable

Cool gadget! Not interested personally, but kudos to them. Also nice they sell cheaper refurbs on their store.

Im thinking of getting into trackball mouses and right now I'm on the fence between the game ball and L trac. I want the one that is the absolute best for aiming. Thank you for the information!

Yeah you are, and also I need this! - Stubbs

I've been using trackballs for many years. I have two Kensington Expert trackballs - one for work and one for home. They are both over a decade old, and still work like new. However, I recently upgraded to a high refresh rate monitor for gaming, and the Kensington trackballs don't work well for that purpose. They only poll at a standard 125 Hz, which leads to less than smooth movement in high FPS games. So, I ordered a GameBall last week. It has a polling rate of 1,000 Hz, and will be smooth in high framerate games. If there is another high polling rate trackball on the market, I've yet to find it. My GameBall will be here today, February 26th, 2024. I'm excited about the GameBall Pro, with a larger ball, and physical scroll wheel. I'll probably buy one as soon as they are released.

I have been following this project for a while. Currently what;s holding me back from trying it is the price, as I am... not flush with cash.

lmao never expected to see this from you, but I've always sort of been interested in how gaming is on a trackball so this is pretty cool. The firmware is a huge plus, I can't stand settings being tied to software.

The only thing I worry about is the right side scroll. I used to have the kensington that had the touch scroll and it was a nightmare, so much so I threw it out. I hope they make a new firmware to disable the right side scroll and change the left side to vertical scroll.

i wish i could find one for thumb operated trackball.

I’m looking for a trackball mouse for Golden Tee games, via emulation. Would this work well for something like that? Where you need to roll the ball forward with a decent amount of force?

I like his accent

I like the Huge design but that stickion is a problem when I want fine movement. It's also a problem for cat people; the hard points keep building up felt pads.

Been using a trackball for more than 20 years. Wouldn't go back to mouse use.

Trackball gamers, represent! Ambidextrous/symmetrical ones recommended for gaming. I don't have any hand or wrist condition. I just like that ye olde arcade-like feel. It's intuitive to me. Granted, that might be because I've been using trackballs for 20+ years. Fun fact: Trackballs have been around longer than mieces. 0:39 Trackman Marble's muh fave. Logitech doesn't make them anymore. More's the pity. 2:22 Really? That must be a new development. Back in the day, it was more common to find symmetrical ones rather than offset ones. Can't find any trackballs in stores nowadays. They have to be special-ordered. 5:00 You really only need two buttons on a gaming trackball. 5:28 Scroll buttons (taking the place of a mousewheel) are a nice modern feature that ye olde Trackman Marble lacks. 8:38 That's really where a symmetrical trackball shines. Any symmetrical one with two buttons will do. The GameBall is like an ultra-modern deluxe jobber. 9:38 20+ for me.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO THANK YOUUUU!!!! When you explained how you use your hand on this mouse my jaw dropped because that is EXACTLY how i use my fingers on my logitech trackball!! Ive been playing world of warcraft since 2006 using a logitech track ball with the ball in the middle just above the right n left mouse buttons and its all been smooth until the last couple expansions, theres so many new spells. i literally have 33 spells binded and still need more buttons but ive completely filled up my entire right hand spot on the keyboard with every letter i can comfortably reach plus those same letters while pressing shift & my mouse has 2 extra mappable buttons & thats still not enough this should give me just enough. i wonder if the scrolls can be mapped too? Im ordering this asap

I have the kensington expert, 2 elecom huge, 1 elecom deft pro, 1 elecom brita. I like them all for different reasons but in terms of scrolling I think they all are weak. Because I've got used to scrolling in the apple trackpad, the thinkpad's trackpoint, and the Logitech Master MX 3. Scroll wheel in Elecom's suck big time. more in elecom huge than in Deft pro or brita. I have 2 elecom huge and both scroll wheels got dirty, I don't know how, but this made scrolling jumpy. I use 2 fingers to move the trackball with the huge and the deft pro, with the brita just 1 because the ball is too small. And this makes less fatigue. from Apple's trackpad & Magic mouse I love inertia scrolling & 2d scrolling from the Logitech Master MX 3 I love free wheel scrolling that is like physical inertia scrolling from Thinkpad's Trackpoint I love 2d continuous scrolling. from Kensington Expert I love continuous scrolling with the ring. I would love a tracking device that combines 2d, inertia, continuous scrolling

For anyone that uses or used a logitech trackman marble how do you feel the gameball compares

I'm 56 and still using Microsoft Trackball Explorer 1.0 USB. Currently looking for something to replace it. My index finger loves the Trackball.

Waiting for gameball thumb.

Hello, can you please tell me how your gameball is a year later? thanks.

How heavy is the ball? I like a heavier ball, like the Kensington Expert Mouse, as I find a heavier ball is easier for making smaller, precise movements.

I did but I could never find anything besides Logitech's Trackman, and those consistently broke on me. The Gameball might be worth looking at.

How firm are the buttons to click? My Logitech Trackball Marble is dying and I tried replacing it with the Kensington Orbit with the scroll ring. The buttons on the Kensington are much firmer / harder to click than my Logitech and I had to send it back - it was unusable for an 8 hour workday. I am wondering how the buttons on the Gameball feel in terms of the amount of force required to click. Can anyone offer any feedback?

THEIR MAKING A PRO?? LETS GOOOOO

Serious question! (as opposed to my joke about stealth archer :p)... How programmable are those buttons? I want to use this to play a MMO (FFXIV specifically), and I'd like to set it up so the left buttons (top and bottom) are Left and Right click, and then the right buttons can be modifier buttons for Shift, Ctrl and Alt. Is that doable?

Stealth Archer?! Wow. That's rare.

I thought about trackball recently more then usual part of why is that a board am trying to win a giveaway for able to have trackballs added to it lol an just before this video there was a short about a man acing with it double lol

I'm following the project almost from the start too, but... The wire is a deal breaker. Once this thing goes wireless - shut up and take my money!

Shift + scroll wheel will scroll horizontally as well, fyi.

Hardware sounds nice, but at $150 I'm just reminded of how much is still lacking in the trackball market when compared to mice. Also, how do you aim this thing at gaming and not include a physical scroll wheel? They should know better, c'mon now.

can you please tell me what game your playing at 8:48 your shooting skulls. looks like a cool boomer shooter. thanks in advance.

Bro - if you didn't change the bearings immediately in your ELECOM HUGE, then you weren't experiencing it the right way. It shipped with GARBAGE bearings and a few dollars makes it feel like what I'm imagining this Gameball feels like.

Have you by any chance tried the gameball thumb?

Is there a wireless option like this?

Gameball is amazing but the Price is not this mouse is for ppl how are willing to pay over 100€ for keybords mouse and controllers I will stuck to my old and cheap Elecom Huge one of the best on the market