Gaming accent firm Turtle Seaside has announced it’s entering into the controller amassing recreation and shopping for PDP for a cool $118 million. PDP getting purchased may very well be factor, relying on how you’re feeling about its slate of usually reasonably priced and fun-colored controllers.
Turtle Seaside has added a whole lot of accent irons to the gaming fireplace within the final couple years, together with forays into flight yokes and the recently-announced Velocity One racing wheel. It sells controllers too, however it solely began doing so in 2021, and doesn’t promote any for PlayStation or Nintendo consoles.
Gamepads are PDP’s bread and butter — and it’s acquired licenses to promote them for each main console. The corporate’s most recognizable ones could be its GameCube-style Struggle Pads for the Wii U, themed after Nintendo characters and nakedly meant for Tremendous Smash Bros. fanatics. You understand, those that insist that the big inexperienced A button, small crimson B button, and kidney bean-shaped X and Y buttons characterize the One True Format for that recreation. (I are inclined to agree.)
Right now’s announcement apparently might’ve been very completely different, as Turtle Seaside writes that earlier than it determined to purchase PDP, it also considered selling itself to a different firm.