Game accessories company Turtle Beach announced that it will enter the field of controller collection games and spend $118 million to acquire PDP. Buying a PDP might be a good thing, depending on how you feel about its affordable controllers in fun colors.
Over the past few years, Turtle Beach has added a number of accessory irons to the gaming craze, including a foray into flight joysticks and the recently released Velocity One racing wheel. It also sells controllers, but didn’t start doing so until 2021, and doesn’t sell any controllers for PlayStation or Nintendo consoles.
Gaming controllers are PDP’s mainstay – it has the license to sell gaming controllers for all major consoles.The company’s best-known product is probably the Wii U’s GameCube-style fighting mat, themed after Nintendo characters that was created purely for Super Smash Bros. Enthusiast. You know, the ones who insist that the giant green A button, the little red B button, and the kidney-bean-shaped X and Y buttons represent the game’s “single true layout.” (I tend to agree.)
Today’s announcement could obviously be very different, as Turtle Beach writes that it also considered selling PDP before deciding to buy it itself to another company.
