If you have ever purchased a third party accessory for your console, the name Mad Catz might be familiar to you. The company known for their cheap memory cards, off-brand controllers, and other peripherals has just filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. Mad Catz and its subsidiaries will be liquidating their assets, as well, and the officers and directors of the company have all stepped down as of March 30, 2017. Founded in 1989, Mad Catz has acquired brands like GameShark, Tritton, and Saitek. The cause their demise is thought to be due to the poor sales of Harmonix's Rock Band 4, which Mad Catz was in charge of, taking financial responsibility for marketing and lacking sales of peripheral hardware.

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If you have ever purchased a third party accessory for your console, the name Mad Catz might be familiar to you. The company known for their cheap memory cards, off-brand controllers, and other peripherals has just filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy. Mad Catz and its subsidiaries will be liquidating their assets, as well, and the officers and directors of the company have all stepped down as of March 39, 2017. Founded in 1989, Mad Catz has acquired brands like GameShark, Tritton, and Saitek. The cause their demise is thought to be due to the poor sales of Harmonix's Rock Band 4, which Mad Catz was in charge of, taking financial responsibility for marketing and lacking sales of peripheral hardware.

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March 39 lol

 

[xtheman]

stepped down as of March 39, 2017. F​

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I think you've just been fooled

 

[chavosaur]

I can't believe they ran out of the $18.42 that they used to create every cheap, plastic, awful excuses for accessories ever.

 

[Chary]

March 39 lol

I think you've just been fooled

You saw nothing! Lousy phone keyboards.

I can't believe they ran out of the $18.42 that they used to create every cheap, plastic, awful excuses for accessories ever.

18 dollars? That's being really generous.

 

[DDTarZan]

March 39th? Sounds like they have some days left.

RIP, I guess.

 

[shaunj66]

Younger siblings everywhere rejoice

 

[BunnyHops]

The cause of their demise goes beyond Rock Band 4. Everything about them was going downhill, hardware included. Off the top of my head I can think of their Android console, which was supposed to get new life with OUYA Everywhere, but that also became a failure, OUYA of which got acquired by Razer, a company that I think was tough competition for Mad Catz.

 

[nolimits59]

Fun fact is that since like 5-6 years, they do really premium gaming peripherials :/. But we all know them for the you siblings and friends at home secondary gamepad x).

 

[Hells Malice]

Everything they made was complete shit. I'm amazed they survived this long.

 

[cvskid]

Sad to hear news like this. They made the best arcade/fightsticks that money can buy IMO. Seems like now HORI is the go to place for arcade/fightsticks now since trying to find a madcatz arcade/fightstick now people will price gouge them. It's the end of an era.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

Haven't seen a whole lot of Mad Catz controllers in a long while here, mostly PDP and Hori stuff nowadays.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

That's too bad.
I know everyone likes to shit on them a lot but I only own two Mad Catz products - both are wireless controllers for the PS2, and while they are a little on the small side, they work great. So my experience with Mad Catz is positive.

 

[James310]

Can't tell if real or April fools joke because I actually used a lot of Mad Catz Controllers Before...

 

[cvskid]

Can't tell if real or April fools joke because I actually used a lot of Mad Catz Controllers Before...

That is some april fools joke then since they pulled both madcatz amazon and ebay stores/sections that they had from the websites.

 

[RustInPeace]

I thought Mad Catz was a third party manufacturer of Nintendo accessories, because all the products I got from them were Nintendo ones. Then again I only had Nintendo consoles, apart from a Sega Genesis. I had some GC controllers from them, unfortunately they weren't very durable, whether it be my fault or theirs. GC memory cards, I'm sure I had one of those, a bunch of GBA accessories, such as a screen lighter for the original GBA, link cables as well, which I still have. I guess Nykoo and Hori took the reigns as I've come across more of their Nintendo accessories these days, Mad Catz, was early to mid 2000s. Sucks for them.

 

[RevPokemon]

I can't believe they ran out of the $18.42 that they used to create every cheap, plastic, awful excuses for accessories ever.

Mad Catz made a lot of cool stuff tho

 

[the_randomizer]

And not a single damn was given Yes, it sucks that people lose their job, but let's be honest, their products sucked ass

 

[DinohScene]

Can't say I'll miss them.

 

[grossaffe]

What's gonna happen with Saitek? They're supposed to have some pretty good flight sticks.