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Razer Suite is also one where I look at the future as a little bit cloudy but I
definitely believe in the premise here this is the forge TV it's got a qualcom
805 quad core processor it's got an
adreno 420 GPU so you can expect your frame rates to be high it's got gigabit
Ethernet HDMI out USB it's got Wireless
AC it's got Bluetooth connectivity it actually supports Wi-Fi controllers as
well and it comes in at $99 but this
isn't the first time we've seen an Android-based gaming console and what is
Razer going to bring to the table that they think is going to make this compete
with well any other Android device that you can plug into your TV whether it's
from a small you know company that you've never heard of before or whether
it's from someone like NVIDIA with their Shield line of tablets and gaming
devices well number one is going to be
the price $99.99 is going to be pretty appealing for something with these kinds
of specs where you're at the point where you can run pretty much any Android game
extremely smoothly even at 1080p 60fps
number two is going to be of course the ecosystem razors never want to release
just one product they want you to buy like this and then they want you to buy
the controller for it and the uh you know the keyboard and mouse thing that
goes along with it and these I'll start with the this one cuz this is actually really cool this is called the turret
and it's a keyboard mouse combo that comes with a little dock maybe that's
where it got the turret name and the idea is to address the problem that any
PC Gamers who also want to enjoy content on their big screen tend to have which
is how on Earth do I control a game like
Civilization if I'm going to play on my TV we've seen Solutions in the past like
the uh couch Master is one that we actually reviewed that I kind of went
yeah this works really well but it's extremely bulky and uh you're not going
to be you know impressing your lady friend that you bring over by having one
of those next to your TV this is a little bit more elegant so instead of
having a huge cushion that sits across your lap the keyboard itself for the
turret unfolds into a mouse pad and then the mouse itself is actually very
thoughtfully designed so it's got its um its slippy pads all around the outside
so that even if you're right at the very edge of that mouse pad it is still
functional until the mouse is hanging more than a a quarter to a third off the
edge of the pad making the mouse pad effectively much larger than it actually
looks it's nice little touches like that that I appreciate from Razer the cost
for this one I actually don't know what's that one going to run you 149 I'm
guessing 129 all right well they impressed me because the overall build
quality of it actually feels very very solid now this one is where they kind of
got away from me a little bit this is their new controller actually very very
beautiful piece of Hardware I mean we've come to expect this Razer doesn't exactly do the whole you know $ 19.99
controller thing so you've got those whatever they call them hyper response
buttons I call them hair trigger buttons we can call them whatever they want they
have a really nice tactile feel to them you've got Android buttons built in for
Android navigation it is intended to be used with the forg TV but this one is
going to come at a bit of a price so this is an $80 controller but this comes
with their streaming software that's going to be built into cortex so now
instead of being locked into well we shouldn't say locked into because there
are other Solutions but instead of being locked into NVIDIA's game stream you are
going to be able to use Razer cortex software in order to stream games from
your PC so they've actually got it running right now and while I can't say
the latency is very impressive they tell me that behind the scenes most of the
work that goes into something like this is actually really on the codec side
they're not using h264 they're not using h265 they're actually using a
proprietary codec that they believe in the long term is going to give them better latency and better image qu quity
compared to other Solutions also this is another cool thing it's I well I don't
know depending on how you look at it oh I unplugged this fortunately wait what I
thought it was running out no it must not be because this doesn't have an HDMI out running to it okay well whatever
there was a green light on it now there isn't um good news the light's back on and I
can finish up that thought where I left off so the good news is that you are
going to be able to use third party controllers whether they're Bluetooth or
Wi-Fi Direct which is great because you know if you want to be that guy who has
the one nice controller for himself and then like the crummy controllers for all
of his buddies then hey you can be that guy but the bad news is that if you want
to take advantage of their end to-end latency optimizations you are going to
benefit from the firmware upgrades and tweaks that Razer is putting into their
own controller for the best most low latency possible experience uh in line
with that sort of open attitude whole thing that they've got going on in their
Suite today is that unlike NVIDIA game stream or even line for that matter you
are not going to be locked into an NVIDIA graphics card to run this so AMD
radon owners Rejoice that is to say as
long as they improve the latency a fair bit over what they're doing now because
I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to like be that guy who
shows how far off we are right now although the beta doesn't even start for
another couple of months and they've got what was it 10 million users you guys
are rolling out the beta too to uh to test this out for you guys anyone with
cortex ultimately 10 million current users so hopefully
that gives them a little bit of feedback and helps them turn this thing into something that totally kicks ass I do
believe in game streaming I do believe in Android as the next gaming platform
so whether I believe that razer's going to be the one to uh to crack that egg or
it's going to be someone else I'm glad they're throwing their hat into the ring
because this is a very beautiful little piece of Hardware they actually had the same team that worked on blade do this
so it's uh shouldn't be surprising to anyone that I think it's the bees all
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