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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[shaithis]

£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.

[AlexKitch]

Christ. You could buy most of a new-gen games console for that kind of cash.

[Percy1983]

Get a a DS4 and some Meccano and I will make you one for only £150, any takers?

Are they serious at that price?

[Spud1]

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"?

[cps1974]

I'm with Spud1 - I also associate the brand with tat, now they appear to be producing and selling premium tat!

[slipthemonkey]

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?

[3s-gtech]

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.

[Ttaskmaster]

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...

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?