Just noticed this new mouse from Steel Series. Its wireless, has a bunch of 'cloud' features (who gives a flying **** anyway about that), and sports some fancy charging pad. I don't care about how high the DPI is, or what kind of new sensor it has. Its going to cost over a Benjamin and a half! Usually I just pass by on overpriced tech like this, but for some reason, this really gets under my skin. Its not just going to inspire more companies to overprice their shit now-- its elitist as all hell.
As an online FPS enthusiast, I've gotten by with 40-60 dollar peripherals for the longest time and never felt like I need to shell more money let alone 100$ more. Maybe I feel a bit elitist myself.. but the sheer arrogance of these companies to think we are going to shell out this much money for their slightly new-and-just-barely-improved-gimmicks just gets my blood boiling.
Goods are worth whatever people are willing to pay for them. If others want to spend all their hard earned cash on useless junk, let them, its not your wallet getting shrunk.
That would be true (and normally I wouldn't care about how other people spend their money)-- but it motivates other companies to raise their prices too!
on the more broad subject of gaming gear, speakers in particular, are no better than normal gear. Make no mistake, they may indeed sound better overall, but the way they are advertised is that "gaming" has a particular set of parameters that only that product can deliver optimal results on. While this may be true of video cards, a better speaker is a better speaker no mater the signal that passes through it. and odds are, you can get a set of pro-grade studio monitors with FAR better specs than the ones of the "gaming" variety. As far as mice and keyboards go, I do not see why you could not just look up the specs of that $150 mouse and see if there is another mouse at half the cost with at least the most important specs similar to the gaming version.
What is the most despicable with the gaming mouse industry is how they market higher dpi as better. Higher DPI is worse. Most professional shooter players use below 1,000 dpi. But virtually every mouse manufacturer keeps releasing higher and higher dpi mice and pretending they're improving the mouse's performance when they're doing nothing of the sort. They actually add in latency and make the mouse perform worse. They are purposely sabotaging their product instead of actually improving its performance because its easier to get people to buy new mice by marketing a higher dpi. And virtually every pro shooter player is sponsored by a mouse company so can't trash the high dpi of modern mice.
Hadn't considered this. I'm pretty happy with my Cyborg Rat 3. Priced pretty good. Maxes out at 3500 DPI. No lag as far as I can tell. Only complain is the braided cable is way too stiff.
Except at least from my understanding if you want to increase the sensitivity, the best way to do that is through increasing the DPI as it will be more precise.
So there isn't a mouse sensor that takes a more precise pic then 1,000 dpi. What they do is they take i think generally a 900 dpi picture. Then they split pixels until they get 3,500 dpi or 5,000 dpi or 8,000 dpi or whatever. When you play at higher dpi jitter becomes more and more of a problem, which is like static for your mouse and reduces precision. So you're more precise using a low dpi and upping the sensitivity in game then you are using a high dpi with jitter and a low in game sensitivity. Almost every professional player chooses low dpi and higher ingame sensitivity then high dpi and lower ingame sensitivity.