Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: HomeBoy on November 14, 2007, 01:05:13 PM
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I wonder if this (http://www.mcvuk.com/news/28872/Mad-Catz-acquires-Saitek) means anything? I hope this doesn't mean a reduction in competition. We've only got three major competitors in the race, I'd sure hate to be left with only CH and Logicrap.
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hope they don't screw up saitek - I've been a loyal consumer since the gameport X36 hotas
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MadCatz has been, up til this point, basically a re-brander of computer parts and peripherals. You could find their stuff all over CompUSA and other similar places, though they also had online sales too.
It seems as though this move will allow them to rebrand Saitek equipment as MadCatz equipment, if they wanted to (though I wouldn't - Saitek is a reasonably well-known brand, and MadCatz isn't.)
The article says they plan on keeping all of Saitek's staff, so my guess is that, other than a name change, there probably won't be many changes.
And for all we know Saitek hasn't been releasing new joysticks due to a lack of cash, and this would take care of that. I guess...
-Llama
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mad catz had built some sweet joysticks good pots , nice gimble action, and tons of buttons.
but they gave up on the pc market ... wonder what there thinking