Longtime peripheral manufacturer Logitech doesn’t want anything to do with console gaming anymore.
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Logitech will continue its work with PC gaming peripherals.
“We are taking immediate actions to shape a faster and more profitable Logitech,” the company’s chief executive officer Bracken P. Darrel said in a statement to investors. “We are developing more mobility-related products, leveraging the powerful growth of tablets and smartphones. We intend to sustain our leadership in PC platform-related products where we have engineering, distribution, and scale advantages.”
Darrell pointed to the sales of its Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for iPad as an example of a successful product that it hopes to capitalize on.
“We have also identified a number of product categories that no longer fit with our current strategic direction. As a result, we have initiated the process to divest our remote controls and digital video security categories, and we plan to discontinue other non-strategic products, such as speaker docks and console gaming peripherals, by the end of [the year].”
In the console gaming space, Logitech never had the presence of companies like Madcatz or Nyko. It’s unlikely that gamers will notice that store shelves at GameStop or Walmart no longer