Mad Catz consumes Saitek

(Credit: Saitek)

You know when you're playing video games at a friend's house and you have to use the "bad" controller while he uses the one that came with the system? Mad Catz is probably the company that made that "bad" controller, and it just got bigger.

According to Kotaku, Mad Catz just acquired PC accessory maker Saitek in a $30 million dollar deal. Saitek produces PC gamepads, joysticks, keyboards, and audio devices, and the company's purchase could indicate that Mad Catz is looking to expand its meager line of PC products. News of this merger comes just two months after Mad Catz acquired Joytech, another game-accessory company. Hopefully all of these new development and manufacturing resources will prompt Mad Catz to produce better controllers.

[johnbuker]

Not just controllers...

all Mad Catz gaming accessories that I've ever bought seem to really suck- batteries that quit holding a charge after just a couple of weeks, impact cases that break when bumped but not dropped, car chargers that melt and get stuck in your car's power access port and have to be broken to be removed, etc. Maybe I'm just stupid, but the low costs of their products was just too tempting and I bet I bought $300 worth of Mad Catz crap before finally vowing to never buy another thing from them again.