Razer may win the Internet with interchangeable ears on its new headset — oh, it has a handheld gaming console too - Laptop Mag

RazerCon 2022 is disconnected and moving contiguous with the keynote for the 3rd yearly “celebration of gaming culture” from Razer showing disconnected immoderate of the latest hardware from the gaming giant. The Razer Edge 5G handheld console volition beryllium the item of the lawsuit for some; however, the updated Razer Kraken Kitty V2 Pro headset with its caller interchangeable ears volition bargain the amusement for others.

Those 2 products would person been plentifulness for the ongoing unrecorded watercourse lawsuit that besides features galore peculiar guests, philharmonic performances, and a big of gaming-related giveaways. We’ll instrumentality to the caller products, though. Here’s a person look astatine what Razer revealed.

Razer Kraken Kitty V2 Pro

Let’s not kid ourselves; the Razer Kraken Kitty V2 Pro headset with its caller interchangeable ears is the existent prima of the show. The Chroma RGB wired headset takes what fans loved astir the archetypal and gives users carnivore and bunny ears successful the container on with the kitty ears that springiness the headset its name. The ears are easy swappable, and of course, RGB lighting successful the ears and the earcups tin beryllium customized to respond to emotes, alerts, and more. These are poised to beryllium different immense deed with streamers.

It’s much than conscionable the amusive look, though. The Kraken Kitty V2 Pro features a detachable Razer HyperClear cardioid mic and Razer TriForce 50mm drivers with enactment for 7.1 integer situation sound. The hybrid cloth set and leatherette cushioning astir the ears connection coagulated sound isolation and should support you comfortably ensconced portion gaming for hours connected end. 

The Razer Kraken Kitty V2 Pro volition beryllium disposable to pre-order successful Q4 2022 (likely immoderate clip adjacent month) and volition commencement astatine $199.99. 

Razer Edge handheld gaming console

Handheld gaming is having a moment. Look astatine the continued occurrence of the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch OLED successful the console’s 5th twelvemonth connected the market, portion the Steam Deck is garnering sizeable attraction and praise since its motorboat earlier this year. Now, we person a caller question of unreality gaming-focused handhelds arriving this fall. The Logitech G Cloud was announced past month, and portion we are a spot skeptical based connected its $349 terms constituent and middling specs, it could beryllium an absorbing trial of however important hardware is for a cloud-based gaming handheld. 

Today, the Razer Edge enters the progressively crowded handheld gaming console fray. The Android-based Razer Edge falls person to the G Cloud than the Steam Deck, but determination are a fewer important differences that person maine acold much funny successful Razer’s rotation connected handheld gaming than Logitech’s. 

First, you person a acold much susceptible processor successful the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform with a 3GHz octa-core CPU and Adreno GPU. That is lightyears beyond the Snapdragon 720G recovered successful the G Cloud. If you are looking astatine a handheld for cloud-gaming lone that shouldn’t substance much; the 720G is perfectly susceptible of serving arsenic a launcher for GeForce Now, Xbox Game Streaming, etc. However, if you are going to person an Android-based handheld gaming console, it seems a discarded to not beryllium capable to play immoderate Android games connected it and the G Cloud decidedly slams the doorway connected Call of Duty: Mobile oregon thing graphically intensive.

Second, the Razer Edge 5G people has a built-in 5G radio, which means you person a accelerated transportation virtually wherever you are. Gaming connected your sofa oregon successful furniture with your handheld console is great, but you privation to beryllium capable to flip it successful a container and crippled connected the go, too. The Edge 5G makes that infinitely much plausible without needing to trust connected flakey nationalist Wi-Fi oregon creating a hotspot with your phone. It’s worthy noting that this exemplary is simply a Verizon exclusive, astatine slightest astatine launch, and there’s nary connection yet connected what the monthly outgo of a program volition beryllium for the Razer Edge 5G. 

The Razer Edge boasts a 6.8-inch, 144Hz AMOLED show with a 2400 x 1080-pixel FHD+ resolution. There’s nary dynamic refresh complaint arsenic you would spot connected a flagship phone, but this is simply a gaming handheld — you conscionable privation a state pedal and nary brakes. There are nary cameras connected committee to interfere with the show oregon propulsion disconnected the equilibrium of the console successful your hands. The 5000 mAh artillery should get you done hours of gaming, though Razer didn’t marque immoderate circumstantial claims, truthful we’ll person to spot erstwhile we get it successful for review.

Perhaps the astir absorbing happening astir the Razer Edge to maine is that dissimilar the G Cloud, the Steam Deck, oregon the Snapdragon G3X developer kit we saw past year, this isn’t a azygous coagulated console. The Razer Edge is the instrumentality astatine the core, but it is docked successful a caller Razer Kishi V2 Pro gaming controller that comes successful the container with it. This is fundamentally a gaming telephone that isn’t a telephone from Razer — an Android-based iPod Touch. It’s an absorbing conception arsenic you could brace this with a Pixel 6a oregon immoderate different budget phone and inactive travel successful good nether the outgo of thing similar an iPhone 14 Pro oregon Galaxy S22 Ultra. But is that preferable to conscionable buying a flagship telephone and pairing it with the Kishi V2 Pro oregon 1 of the different best telephone controllers connected the market?

A Wi-Fi-only mentation of the Razer Edge is coming successful January for $399, but Verizon hasn’t yet announced the outgo of the Razer Edge 5G model. The outgo of that exemplary and the information program for it are going to beryllium important pieces of the puzzle for this device. As I said, I’m intrigued by this device, but I’m not definite whether unreality gaming is acceptable to beryllium the superior gaming enactment for anyone yet, which could yet descend some the G Cloud and Razer Edge careless of however bully the hardware whitethorn be. Sometimes being up of your clip is nary antithetic than being a atrocious product.

Razer gaming accessories

While the Razer Edge and Kraken Kitty V2 Pro were the headliners, Razer had a fig of different products up its sleeves.

The Razer Blue Screen is simply a chroma cardinal sheet for streamers that is simply a height-adjustable, 94-inch wrinkle-free backdrop that tin beryllium rapidly deployed and past collapsed for casual storage. If you aren’t idiosyncratic that has a imperishable abstraction you tin dedicate to a streaming setup, this could beryllium an fantabulous alternative. It’s disposable starting contiguous for $149.99.

Razer’s Kaira enactment of headsets is increasing with a Kaira X wired headset on with wireless Kaira HyperSpeed and Kaira Pro HyperSpeed models. The second 2 boast 2.4GHz wireless connections and up to 30 hours of artillery life. The Pro HyperSpeed breaks caller crushed with haptics powered by Razer HyperSense to fto you not conscionable perceive what’s going connected successful the game, but consciousness it arsenic well. All 3 models diagnostic Razer TriForce Titanium 50mm drivers and detachable Razer HyperClear Supercardiod ENC microphones. They are each disposable contiguous with the Kaira X starting astatine $59.99. The Kaira HyperSpeed and HyperSpeed Pro commencement astatine $129.99 and $199.99, respectively.

Finally, Razer showed disconnected the Hammerhead HyperSpeed “gaming people earbuds” with progressive sound cancellation. They diagnostic Chroma RGB (because of people they do) with up to 30 hours of artillery beingness with the charging case, 2.4GHz wireless erstwhile utilizing the included USB Type-C dongle oregon Bluetooth 5.2 erstwhile debased latency audio isn’t a must. There are PlayStation and Xbox branded versions of the earbuds truthful you tin rep your preferred console. The earbuds volition get successful November starting astatine $149.99.