Mad Catz L.Y.N.X.9 is a £250 ($299) controller for PC and Android
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This mobile hybrid controller will be available from March.
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£250 for a controller? I paid around that price for my racing pod and G25 steering wheel (admittedly the wheel was second hand but still...)
Seems savagely overpriced.
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Christ. You could buy most of a new-gen games console for that kind of cash.
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Get a a DS4 and some Meccano and I will make you one for only £150, any takers?
Are they serious at that price?
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Have Mad Catz become a premium brand in recent years?
I've always had them down as being a company who makes lots of cheap and nasty tat for consoles - particularly really bad 3rd party controllers or headsets. Then the past few years they have started to make really expensive products like this (still all tat like!) and their STRIKE 7 keyboard.
I'm curious who is buying all of these things up - do they appeal to new gamers who don't have the same association of "crap"?
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I'm with Spud1 - I also associate the brand with tat, now they appear to be producing and selling premium tat!
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I don't associate the brand with tat or premium either way and I appreciate the price is ridiculous, but is there another product out there that offers the same functionality as this?
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Not entirely fair to think of them like that - many years back they produced the only official steering wheel for the PS1 at the time, which was a rock solid piece of kit. They also produce the Fightstick which is a premium and very tough piece of equipment.
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Spud1
I've always had them down as being a company who makes lots of cheap and nasty tat for consoles
I thought they were the ones who bought all the really good Saitek peripherals and then started manufacturing them with cheaper components so they broke...
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Spud1
I'm curious who is buying all of these things up - do they appeal to new gamers who don't have the same association of "crap"?
I imagine the same kind of gamers who think all the pritty pritty lights on Coolermaster cases means the ULLTIMATE IN GAMING COMPONENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111ELEVENTYWTFOMGLOLZ sorta-thing...
If it looks like a Transformers reject, it MUST be kewlz, yeh? :)