Corsair Acquires Drop (aka Massdrop)

[DonR]

Corsair to Acquire Drop

The community-driven peripheral seller will reportedly continue to run as its own business.

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Corsair is adding to its growing empire of PC gaming-focused companies with a deal to purchase assets from Drop, an enthusiast keyboard boutique known for keyboards, mechanical switches, other parts for building your own mechanical keyboard, as well as other peripherals.

Drop is joining Elgato, Scuf Gaming, and Origin under the Corsair umbrella. At least from outside, those brands have operated relatively separately from the Corsair mothership, which also makes its own PCs, peripherals, and components. We've reached out to Corsair to learn what exactly the "certain assets" it is acquiring are, and will update this story if we learn more.

The companies didn't detail the financial terms of the deal, other than to note they were "all-cash" and "non-material."

 

[Dunring]

Yes lets hope they don't tank the audio section with crappy headsets. If you've seen a Best Buy, they probably won't be able to resist filling Drop up with their product lines. I've had their whole product line through the business over the years, a Yincrow X6 for $10 can beat all their stuff.

 

[maverickronin]

Massdrop completes another circle around the drain...

 

[DonR]

Their collabs with Sennheiser was great. They did some excellent keyboards. Corsair though... ugh.

 

[phillycl]

Ever since the acquisition was announced, there have been minimal headphone deals at Drop. The only reason I continue to check the website is because I have reward points to use up.