I don’t feel a great deal of benefit by using 500 or 1000Hz on consoles designed for 125Hz input (the rate at which both MS and Sony controllers respond to console USB input requests).
IMHO, there is a big difference between 125 and 250Hz (the rate at which the console USB ports poll, but controllers only respond to every second request) in responsive mouse input from XIM APEX compared to XIM 4, but diminished returns above that. I’ve felt this way since the alpha of XIM APEX.
We’re playing console shooters on a XIM and all but two (Siege & PUBG) feature aim assist. Lower XIM Response Rates work better with AA by more closely aligning XIM. output with expected game input. That’s also why Sync exists.
There are some outliers like CoD that arguably work better by reducing AA to allow faster entry into the hitbox, but it requires a lot of XIM game config tweaking that I’m not prepared to invest time into these days.
RML is the king of curves, but they’re mostly to counter the negative effects on aim assist of using higher polling rates in console games that don’t expect it. I’m more of a “keep it simple stupid” kinda guy and much prefer to simply bang Sync on Default (aligning XIM closely with expected 125Hz console input), or swap to 250Hz on Sync Off, slightly tweak Smoothing or Steady Aim for AA and call it a day.
Destiny is my jam rather than CoD, BF, Siege etc and its obscene level of AA and bullet magnetism benefits from making XIM output as close to controller output as possible. Hence tweaking in-game sensitivity and FOV to find the right balance between turn speed and AA rather than following the advice of maxing out sens for XIM mouse input.
Also, I seem to avoid all of the issues like mouse jitter, audio garbling, skipped frames, USB desync, Remote Play, Cronus compatibility etc issues that plague 1000Hz users by using 250Hz.
Long story short - we’re playing console games, almost all of them have strong AA and every single one of them has a turn speed cap. If I wanted PC-like movement and less AA, I’d rather just play games on PC than try to jam a square peg into a round hole by forcing XIM to cram 1000Hz into a console that’s not designed to accept it.
XIM m/kb adapters are NOT designed to work with console game AA, so make it easier for the console by using 125 or 250Hz. XIM NEXUS is designed to work with AA and it does not operate at 500 or 1000Hz.
