Logitech has introduced an acquisition of Loupedeck, the corporate that makes the Loupedeck Reside stream controller. This places Logitech squarely in competitors with Elgato, now owned by Corsair and makers of the Stream Deck. An analogous gadget with macro buttons for that will help you extra simply work together together with your stream.
The 2 corporations formally introduced the acquisition on July 18, however didn’t announce how a lot Loupedeck was acquired for. The 2 corporations say Loupedeck was acquired for an undisclosed, non-material quantity. Logitech provides all kinds of peripherals for avid gamers (corresponding to gaming keyboards) and content material creators, however didn’t have something in its product portfolio that matches into this class. Now although, Logitech can increase its choices to every kind of content material creators with the Loupedeck Reside underneath its umbrella.
“Empowering streamers, creators and avid gamers is a joint ardour of Loupedeck and Logitech. Collectively we’re targeted on eradicating all obstacles to allow them to create, edit and stream with out limits,” says Logitech G Normal Supervisor Ujesh Desai.
Logitech now owns Loupedeck, however Loupedeck will function as regular
Loupedeck now be owned by Logitech, however the firm will nonetheless function because it all the time has for fairly a while. The announcement says Loupedeck will proceed to help its companions and clients and function as regular “for the foreseeable future.”
So these utilizing Loupedeck merchandise shouldn’t anticipate a lot if any change. A minimum of for now. However one thing clients can look ahead to is the probability that Loupedeck will get some cool help or integrations with Logitech G merchandise. The announcement doesn’t point out detailed specifics but it surely makes prefect sense and could be a very cheap transfer on the a part of each corporations.
What it does say is that “Logitech and Loupedeck will likely be within the place to offer a extra seamless expertise for creators.” The corporate says this contains onboarding. Along with “tighter coupling” between Loupedeck units and Streamlabs software program. Principally it feels like setup between units must be less complicated transferring ahead. Although it’s unclear when these enhancements will occur.