Logitech has been a key member of the eSports ecosystem since 1997. With nearly 20 years of support in the space, their latest foray expands on that commitment with a mouse with and for professional eSports players—the Logitech G Pro gaming mouse—announced this week.
“We’re excited that [eSports] are finally reaching that tipping point now because we’ve been doing it for so long. It’s finally getting the mainstream recognition and we think it deserved for a very long time,” said Logitech’s Ujesh Desai, VP and general manager of gaming. “We want to continue that partnership with the eSports teams and the eSports players.”
For Desai, whose daughters lean toward watching Twitch and YouTube instead of traditional sports on TV, this is this generation’s sport. “It’s validating for me to see that now coming into the spotlight.”
In order to develop the new Logitech G Pro gaming mouse, the brand worked side-by-side with players to create the ideal eSports mouse. Contrary to the Swiss Army knife-style mouse you would expect, players opted for a much less complicated design that focuses on accuracy, provides a spring button tensioning system, and gives players their desired agility by being lightweight.
To understand what players truly wanted and needed from a gaming mouse, Logitech benefitted from having an in-office testing ground with their eSports facility.
“Literally 10 feet from my office, we have an eSports facility that we made,” said Desai. “We want to see them using our equipment and how they work with it.”
