Turtle Beach Command Series peripherals include touchscreens

The Turtle Beach Command Series keyboards and mice are high-end peripherals with a reasonable cost that incorporate a touchscreen display for quick access controls, displaying stats, and more.

You know that old saying, “less is more,” well, sometimes it’s true and other times it’s not. That’s pretty much the case with Turtle Beach’s new Command Series PC gaming keyboards and mice. They’re really not any more expensive than other premium peripherals, and yet they incorporate a really cool feature — I think it’s cool, anyway. Most of the variants — not all — incorporate a touchscreen. That touchscreen can be used to configure settings, adjust user profiles, set up macros and shortcuts, manage audio devices, and access streaming functions like a stream deck. There are a few models, which is a bit different than why I usually cover because I try to focus on one product in particular.

The keyboards include the Command Series KB5 ($150) and Command Series KB7 ($200). Meanwhile, the mice include the Command Series MC3 ($80) with no screen, Command Series MC5 ($120) also with no screen, and Command Series MC7 ($160) with a 2.25 inch screen. There’s also an optional KP7 keypad that works as a mouse and adds extra keys to work alongside a keyboard. The most expensive models have a bigger screen and premium upgrades, like hall effect switches.

Why would you want a Turtle Beach Command Series device with a touchscreen?

I’m going to focus on a single peripheral for this section, the Command Series KB5 keyboard. It features an “ultra-responsive” 2.4-inch touchscreen display on the right hand side above the num-pad. You can use that to display streaming controls, customize macros and shortcuts, monitor or display system stats, and manage audio and other system controls. Essentially, that can help reduce how often you’re minimizing your games and apps in the middle of a session to access other apps and services, even if you have multi-monitor setups. I don’t know about you but I still have to minimize my games to access other stuff sometimes, even if I use borderless or fullscreen windowed modes.

But this keyboard also features Titan switches, a physical volume barrel for quick adjustments, per-key customizable RGB, a full-size QWERTY keyboard layout, a built-in handrest, double-shot PBT keycaps, and a ton more. It’s a huge step up from cheap to mid-grade keyboards if you’ve never used a premium model. But it’s also not crazy expensive, or any more pricy than some of the name-brand keyboards out there. The same is true for the Command Series mice.

The other keyboard, Command Series KB7 gets a few premium upgrades like hall effect switches. Ultimately, the entire series is meant to put you in full control over your gaming peripherals and it does that in quite a few interesting ways per model.