Turtle Beach is buying gamepad maker PDP

Gaming accent firm Turtle Beach has introduced it’s entering into the controller accumulating sport and buying PDP for a cool $118 million. PDP getting purchased could possibly be a great factor, relying on how you are feeling about its slate of usually inexpensive and fun-colored controllers.

Turtle Beach has added loads 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, but it surely solely started doing so in 2021, and doesn’t promote any for PlayStation or Nintendo consoles.

Gamepads are PDP’s bread and butter — and it’s received licenses to promote them for each main console. The firm’s most recognizable ones could be its GameCube-style Fight Pads for the Wii U, themed after Nintendo characters and nakedly supposed for Super Smash Bros. lovers. You know, those that insist that the large inexperienced A button, small crimson B button, and kidney bean-shaped X and Y buttons symbolize the One True Layout for that sport. (I are inclined to agree.)

Today’s announcement apparently might’ve been very totally different, as Turtle Beach writes that earlier than it determined to purchase PDP, it additionally thought-about promoting itself to a different firm.