However, the company took a somewhat surprising turn this year by expanding the Alienware brand into the PC
gaming peripheral market.
While the brand has been prolific in
the gaming peripheral market for a while, it has only recently started to make its way into the mobile device market, most recently with the launch of the Razer phone in late 2017, and now with the compatibility between a popular home automation brand and its own Chroma lighting system.
The Orochi runs on the Razer Synapse 2.0 software, which is still one of the best software suites in
the gaming peripheral market.
Razer's Mamba HyperFlux is the latest innovation in
the gaming peripheral market.
The gaming peripheral market is extremely saturated and unfortunately many of those products are not very high quality.
Not exact matches
Bluetooth 4.0 allows connection to the new
gaming peripherals entering the
market that use this standard as well as wireless speakers and other devices.
In my experience, many of the
gaming peripherals that are
marketed to gamers end up being nothing more that a piece of extra equipment that doesn't really add anything to the
gaming experience; they just ends up collecting dust on a shelf after not too long.
Well, this year we saw the release of the Play Station Move, a brand new
gaming peripheral that hit the
market with an earth shattering... «meh.»
According to OTX (a stateside
market research firm), only a tiny percentage of the
gaming audience actually know about the upcoming
peripherals... and even less could give two hoots.
I've spoken highly of Synapse 2.0 in the past for its intuitive interface and wealth of options, and it's still one of the best
gaming -
peripheral software packages on the
market.
With so much competition at the top end of the mobile
market, and flagship handsets already offering great screens and a whole lot of power for
gaming, the Razer Phone is a bold play from a firm well known for its
gaming laptops and
peripherals, and which is now hoping its legions of fans will buy into its latest device.
Meanwhile Mad Catz is back in the
gaming hardware
market after going bankrupt, bringing three
peripherals to CES 2018: a wireless version of its iconic RAT Air mouse, a Strike 4 keyboard, and a Freq 4
gaming headset.
Some
gaming mice are out to shake up the entire
market, and others exist just to provide a good
peripheral at a reasonable price.
Venturing into the
market of
gaming peripherals, Sennheiser brings quality headphones to gamers with its Game Series headsets.
The Razer Synapse 2.0 has consistently been one of the best
gaming peripheral software packages on the
market, and it's still riding high.
While
marketed as a
gaming headset, this looks to be everything that trendy
gaming and audio
peripherals aren't these days (for some, that's not a bad thing).
The Logitech G brand mainly deals with
peripherals in the PC
gaming market, such as the Logitech Pro G mechanical keyboard, the Logitech G403 Prodigy
gaming mouse, and the recent Logitech G433 7.1
gaming headset.
This device is one of a collection of Xbox
peripherals made by Razer on the
market today, this set also including the Razer Thresher Ultimate wireless
gaming headset and the Razer Atrox fight stick — another wacky controller made to push the boundaries of what input's possible on the console.