Turtle Beach has released the Command Series MC7, a wireless gaming mouse with a 2.25-inch colour touchscreen built into the side. It costs 160 dollars, or 140 pounds.
The screen shows settings like sensitivity, polling rate and battery level, and you can tap it to change them. The mouse also has 11 buttons and a scroll wheel that moves four ways.
Reviewers liked the sensor and the swappable battery but found the mouse heavy and awkward to hold at 135 grams.
π The Backstory
Turtle Beach is best known for headsets. The company has spent recent years buying up other brands to sell keyboards, controllers and mice, and the results have been uneven.
Screens on mice are rare. Cooler Master and SteelSeries have tried small ones before. A touchscreen this large on a mouse from a major brand is new.
The MC7 uses an Owl-Eye sensor that reaches 30,000 DPI, and its battery can be swapped in seconds.
π― Why It Matters
Gaming gear is getting more expensive and more complicated. A 160-dollar mouse with a screen is a test of how much players will pay for extra features.
Turtle Beach has released the Command Series MC7, a wireless gaming mouse with a 2.25-inch colour touchscreen built into the side. It costs 160 dollars, or 140 pounds.
The screen shows settings like sensitivity, polling rate and battery level, and you can tap it to change them. The mouse also has 11 buttons and a scroll wheel that moves four ways.
Reviewers liked the sensor and the swappable battery but found the mouse heavy and awkward to hold at 135 grams.
Turtle Beach is best known for headsets. The company has spent recent years buying up other brands to sell keyboards, controllers and mice, and the results have been uneven.
Screens on mice are rare. Cooler Master and SteelSeries have tried small ones before. A touchscreen this large on a mouse from a major brand is new.
The MC7 uses an Owl-Eye sensor that reaches 30,000 DPI, and its battery can be swapped in seconds.
Gaming gear is getting more expensive and more complicated. A 160-dollar mouse with a screen is a test of how much players will pay for extra features.