Razer is a world leader when it comes to devices and software for gamers and today they’ve announced a product range centered around the Razer Forge TV, a high-performance Android TV micro-console to bring hardcore PC gaming and Android gaming into your living room. This new gaming ecosystem consists of the Razer Forge TV micro-console, Razer Cortex: Stream software and two Bluetooth peripherals, the Razer Serval and the Razer Turret.
Razer Forge TV offers cutting-edge performance with quad-core processing, gaming-grade graphics, industry-leading wireless and network connectivity with 16 GB of internal storage, all packed in a sleek and silent factor. This micor-console’s powerful hardware plays the most popular games from Google Play on a large screen up to 4 players.
The Razer Serval is a console-style Bluetooth gaming controller that’s able to navigate and play games on Razer Forge TV. The controller is designed by the same Razer engineering team that created the award-winning Razer Sabertooth Xbox controller. It has four action buttons, two thump sticks, trigger and bumper buttons. The Razer Serval enables play with any controller-ready Android TV game or Android mobile game on-the-go using the device’s phone clip.
Current approaches to PC games on a larger screen offer various challenges ranging from cost to additional hardware, game compatibility restrictions, laggy streaming technologies and the problem of usign a mouse and keyboard interface issue in the living room.
The Razer Cortex: Stream is the latest feature to Razer’s popular gaming launcher sofware used by million of gamers worldwide. It’ll launch into beta in spring 2015. It’ll provide ultra-low latency gaming and up to full HD resolution with Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection, the proprietary game streaming technology sets the benchmark for streamed PC gaming. Razer Cortex: Stream will be compatible with Directx9 games and higher from any publisher.
“Razer Forge TV is a device that is able to bring together the most popular elements of an entertainment center,” says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO. “It powers popular music and movie apps and plays Android TV games that an entire family can enjoy. For the hardcore gaming audience, it will bring PC gaming to the couch. Razer Forge TV is what we see as the future of consoles.”
Users will also be able to interact with Razer Forge TV through their mobile devices, including iOS, Android, Chromebook, Windows and more. A mobile remote control app is available for easy navigation and will support voice search functionality. Google Cast lets users send the Web, movies, shows and photos from Android or iOS mobile devices or laptops to televisions.
For more information on the Razer Forge TV, visit www.razerzone.com/ForgeTV
For more information on Razer Cortex: Stream, visit www.razerzone.com/cortex/stream
For more information on the Razer Serval, visit http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-controllers/razer-serval
For more information on the Razer Turret, visit http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-controllers/razer-turret