Turtle Beach has wedged a touchscreen into the side of its new 8K gaming mouse and it's giving me the heebie-jeebies

1 week ago 14

Rommie Analytics

It's not often a new gaming mouse makes me screw my face up at the sheer thought of using it, but well, here we are. The Turtle Beach Command Series MC7 is an 8K wireless squeaker with a 30K sensor and several features I quite like the look of—but it's also got a 2.25-inch touchscreen wedged next to the left mouse button.

And it's giving me the slight ick. Partly, that might be down to the fact that I religiously clean all of my screens, touch or otherwise. The idea of continually running my thumb along a smooth, grease-displaying glass surface is enough to encourage small palpitations, and it's getting worse the more I look at it.

I've long moaned about the screen-ification of gaming hardware, as I don't think it adds a huge amount of functionality. And touchscreens on gaming mice? Nope, not even once. Straight to jail, do not pass go.