Razer Switchblade

[SNESFAN]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/razer-switchblade-7-inch-pocket-gaming-concept-blows-our-minds/


http://www.engadget.com/photos/razer-switchblade-7-inch-gaming-tablet-concept-at-ces-2011/#3750252


lame... fail... where's my gaming controls... battery life... windows... etc etc


+1 for the handheld warcraft though


discuss

 

[DaMummy]

looks photoshopped unsurprisingly enough though, those would sell like hotcakes! not for me though. NEXT!


edit: bah i was right it is a photoshop, concept design :}

 

[SNESFAN]

awww snap!


psst... guess what?


huh? what's up?


... it's real


o rly?


... ya rly


no wai


...ya wai


srsly... prove it ......


http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/razer-switchblade-preview-3g-intel-oak-trail-almost-definitel/

kthxbai

 

[Aurekana]

It may very well be real, but the Engadget post mentions no release date nor price, and they guess that it's at least a year out. A lot of really awesome products haven't survived much past the state at which this is now, so its up in the air as to whether this is planned to be an actual product.


Edit: Wow, that was an awful paragraph. What I mean is, I see it as a lot like a concept car. The purpose of a physically modeled concept car at a car show is to gauge interest in certain features that the manufacturer may then incorporate into more traditionally designed cars.

 

[EvilDragon]

So... it's got a 7 inch touchscreen?


That's the size of my netbook... why is this a pocket gaming device?


It's basically a netbook with weird keyboard. Any netbook can play WoW and is the same size....

 

[darfgarf]

why is this a pocket gaming device?

some people have very big pockets


7 inch is no pocket device by a longshot, my archos 70 fits in a jacket pocket...barely, calling that monster a pocket device would be like saying the ipad is a handheld...

 

[DaMummy]

So... it's got a 7 inch touchscreen?


That's the size of my netbook... why is this a pocket gaming device?


It's basically a netbook with weird keyboard. Any netbook can play WoW and is the same size....

ed, ive noticed you like raining on other companies parades that might be OPs competitor, based on OPs specs, it should be able to play nds, psp, and even run recent versions of windows, doesnt necessarily mean thats what its designed to do

 

[darfgarf]

based on OPs specs, it should be able to play nds, psp, and even run recent versions of windows, doesnt necessarily mean thats what its designed to do

no it shouldn't, but lets not start the apples/oranges discussions again

 

[gosse]

Add a d-pad, 2 thumbsticks/nubs, 4 face buttons, 4 shoulder buttons, and then color me interested. This is just a small netbook with an awesome keyboard, which is too bad, it could be so much more.

 

[EvilDragon]

ed, ive noticed you like raining on other companies parades that might be OPs competitor

Not really. I just give my honest opinion to devices that are presented.


I really like the AI Touchbook / Smartbook (having similar issues as we have), for example, and there are devices like the 3DS I'm really looking forward to.


I don't really see this as OPs competitor. I see this more as competitor for netbooks, as it has the same size and the same features (x86, Windows, etc.).


But what can it do a normal netbook can't? Except for having a touch interface, that is.

 

[SNESFAN]

this is by no more of a pocket gaming computer than a eeepc or acer one. Size is not exactly the best benefit here. It is more of a *gaming* device than a standard netbook though.


Why? Well because it's got the gpu/proc to do it based off first hand impressions. The screen real estate is enough to actually play warcraft etc without being gimmicky. I really really want my pandora, but I honestly could never see myself playing warcraft on it because of the size/resolution. I will limit the pandoras use to games that will look the best on it, and can make most efficient use of the control scheme.


What this has working for is it's customizable buttons, as noted, you can remove some of the UI elements out of any game and drag it to the keyboard. Really think about this one, just think about all the things you can do with that, you might have to think out of the box a bit though. But warcraft is just one example, but think of all the other games you can do, this plus a stylus or usb mouse... maybe even a seperate controller.


Pocket gaming computer? Nay


Most powerful portable gaming computer in class? maybe


Is it basically just combining two technologies? Yes


Have you seen anything like it before? No


Will this change the "game" and what's possible? I hope so

 

[matzesu]

Whe dit have this Thread allready, Other Thread, Same Topic


Yes, its an Interessting Device,


No i dont want to by it, because its even bigger than our Pandora, and its only a conzept, and i dont want to play WOW..

 

[moz]

actually this thread came first.


but on topic, it is rather large and is based around a game that I have never played and never wished to play.

 

[SNESFAN]

Whe dit have this Thread allready, Other Thread, Same Topic


Yes, its an Interessting Device,


No i dont want to by it, because its even bigger than our Pandora, and its only a conzept, and i dont want to play WOW..

well this is where it should be posted... other consoles... and it's more than a concept, it's real or at least a prototype, just not in mass production


EDIT: it's currently shown with WoW but any game can use it's features, dynamic buttons, think of it like menus, you hit one button and it opens a whole slew of new buttons, then go back. It's like windows that you can touch!

 

[matzesu]

Ok, than whe use this Thread..


How about an Size Comparasion??


OpenPandora

And now: The Switchblade

You see, the Switchblade is way bigger


Formfaktor


Pandora - Switchblade 1:0 B)


Whe win, Monsterkill!!!!

 

[moz]

The pandora may be better in the way of formfactor, but these are two completely different machines, for two different audiences, and I would keep going along on that train of thought, but I can´t be bothered and this discussion was had in the Panasonic Jungle thread. I think...

 

[SNESFAN]

they can't do the same things... it's not fair comparison.


size comparison,


a 747 and my car


my car is smaller, it wins... oh the 747 gets you somewhere faster? Unimportant

 

[matzesu]

I tink so too, Openpandora are meybe going to sell 20.000 Units, but the World has a lot more Peaple whit enought Mony and interesst in an Gaminghandheld, so they can by this device, or the jungle.., or the 3DS.., no Problem for Openpandora,


If you happy whit the Pandora, buy one, i you were happy whit the Switchblade, buy a switchblade, no Problem...


The Openpandora is a Homebrewhandheld for nerds, the Switchblade is a komerzial Handheld for all others..

 

[moz]

exactly, and I promise to stop ninja´ing you johnsongrantr

 

[SNESFAN]

I tink so too, Openpandora are meybe going to sell 20.000 Units, but the World has a lot more Peaple whit enought Mony and interesst in an Gaminghandheld, so they can by this device, or the jungle.., or the 3DS.., no Problem for Openpandora,


If you happy whit the Pandora, buy one, i you were happy whit the Switchblade, buy a switchblade, no Problem...


The Openpandora is a Homebrewhandheld for nerds, the Switchblade is a komerzial Handheld for all others..

I can respect this, but my purpose for posting this, along with supporting other portable/handheld gaming is not to put it up against the pandora. The pandora has it's niche, and there are things it's going to do very well, but there are others that it not be able to do at all. The switchblade would be just god aweful at console emulation, the pandoras strong suit for example. And vise versa, the pandora can't play the software available for x86 machines and windows such as warcraft among many many others.


I don't agree with pandora is for handheld nerds only, I think(hope) your average non-linux person can pick it up and start using it. If the technology is becoming between you and your desired task, then the software is written poorly. If I have to jump into a command line just to get a game to run, or change arguments on shortcut or executable, then agian someone is either not concerned with it's ascetic quality of the device or program or it was made that way on purpose and from a end user standpoint that's poorly written software.