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as well as hyperx so our second video here at the

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Razer Suite is also one where I look at the future as a little bit cloudy but I

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definitely believe in the premise here this is the forge TV it's got a qualcom

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805 quad core processor it's got an

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adreno 420 GPU so you can expect your frame rates to be high it's got gigabit

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Ethernet HDMI out USB it's got Wireless

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AC it's got Bluetooth connectivity it actually supports Wi-Fi controllers as

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well and it comes in at $99 but this

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isn't the first time we've seen an Android-based gaming console and what is

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Razer going to bring to the table that they think is going to make this compete

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with well any other Android device that you can plug into your TV whether it's

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from a small you know company that you've never heard of before or whether

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it's from someone like NVIDIA with their Shield line of tablets and gaming

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devices well number one is going to be

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the price $99.99 is going to be pretty appealing for something with these kinds

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of specs where you're at the point where you can run pretty much any Android game

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extremely smoothly even at 1080p 60fps

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number two is going to be of course the ecosystem razors never want to release

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just one product they want you to buy like this and then they want you to buy

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the controller for it and the uh you know the keyboard and mouse thing that

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goes along with it and these I'll start with the this one cuz this is actually really cool this is called the turret

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and it's a keyboard mouse combo that comes with a little dock maybe that's

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where it got the turret name and the idea is to address the problem that any

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PC Gamers who also want to enjoy content on their big screen tend to have which

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is how on Earth do I control a game like

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Civilization if I'm going to play on my TV we've seen Solutions in the past like

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the uh couch Master is one that we actually reviewed that I kind of went

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yeah this works really well but it's extremely bulky and uh you're not going

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to be you know impressing your lady friend that you bring over by having one

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of those next to your TV this is a little bit more elegant so instead of

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having a huge cushion that sits across your lap the keyboard itself for the

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turret unfolds into a mouse pad and then the mouse itself is actually very

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thoughtfully designed so it's got its um its slippy pads all around the outside

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so that even if you're right at the very edge of that mouse pad it is still

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functional until the mouse is hanging more than a a quarter to a third off the

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edge of the pad making the mouse pad effectively much larger than it actually

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looks it's nice little touches like that that I appreciate from Razer the cost

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for this one I actually don't know what's that one going to run you 149 I'm

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guessing 129 all right well they impressed me because the overall build

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quality of it actually feels very very solid now this one is where they kind of

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got away from me a little bit this is their new controller actually very very

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beautiful piece of Hardware I mean we've come to expect this Razer doesn't exactly do the whole you know $ 19.99

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controller thing so you've got those whatever they call them hyper response

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buttons I call them hair trigger buttons we can call them whatever they want they

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have a really nice tactile feel to them you've got Android buttons built in for

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Android navigation it is intended to be used with the forg TV but this one is

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going to come at a bit of a price so this is an $80 controller but this comes

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with their streaming software that's going to be built into cortex so now

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instead of being locked into well we shouldn't say locked into because there

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are other Solutions but instead of being locked into NVIDIA's game stream you are

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going to be able to use Razer cortex software in order to stream games from

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your PC so they've actually got it running right now and while I can't say

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the latency is very impressive they tell me that behind the scenes most of the

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work that goes into something like this is actually really on the codec side

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they're not using h264 they're not using h265 they're actually using a

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proprietary codec that they believe in the long term is going to give them better latency and better image qu quity

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compared to other Solutions also this is another cool thing it's I well I don't

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know depending on how you look at it oh I unplugged this fortunately wait what I

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thought it was running out no it must not be because this doesn't have an HDMI out running to it okay well whatever

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there was a green light on it now there isn't um good news the light's back on and I

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can finish up that thought where I left off so the good news is that you are

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going to be able to use third party controllers whether they're Bluetooth or

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Wi-Fi Direct which is great because you know if you want to be that guy who has

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the one nice controller for himself and then like the crummy controllers for all

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of his buddies then hey you can be that guy but the bad news is that if you want

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to take advantage of their end to-end latency optimizations you are going to

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benefit from the firmware upgrades and tweaks that Razer is putting into their

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own controller for the best most low latency possible experience uh in line

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with that sort of open attitude whole thing that they've got going on in their

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Suite today is that unlike NVIDIA game stream or even line for that matter you

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are not going to be locked into an NVIDIA graphics card to run this so AMD

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radon owners Rejoice that is to say as

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long as they improve the latency a fair bit over what they're doing now because

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I'm going to I'm going to go ahead and I'm just going to like be that guy who

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shows how far off we are right now although the beta doesn't even start for

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another couple of months and they've got what was it 10 million users you guys

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are rolling out the beta too to uh to test this out for you guys anyone with

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cortex ultimately 10 million current users so hopefully

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that gives them a little bit of feedback and helps them turn this thing into something that totally kicks ass I do

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believe in game streaming I do believe in Android as the next gaming platform

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so whether I believe that razer's going to be the one to uh to crack that egg or

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it's going to be someone else I'm glad they're throwing their hat into the ring

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because this is a very beautiful little piece of Hardware they actually had the same team that worked on blade do this

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so it's uh shouldn't be surprising to anyone that I think it's the bees all

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right guys thanks for checking out video number two here in the razor Suite don't

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