Razer Preps Portable 5G Android Gaming Console

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Verizon teams up with Razer and Qualcomm for a portable 5G gaming console.

Verizon announced on Wednesday that it had teamed up with Razer and Qualcomm for an always-connected portable game console that uses Google's Android operating system and allows to play Android games and games streamed from the cloud or a stationary game console.

The Razer Edge 5G game console leverages Qualcomm's Snapdragon G3X Gen 1 system-on-chip explicitly designed for portable gaming devices. Qualcomm introduced the SoC a little less than a year ago but still has not disclosed its specifications, so the only thing we do know for sure is that the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 Gaming Platform supports gaming at an up to 4K resolution at up to 144 frames per second, rendering in 10-bit HDR, Wi-Fi 6E, and 5G (including both sub-6GHz and 5G mmWave) connectivity. In addition, the platform allows you to attach a 4K TV or a display to the console and an XR accessory using a USB-C port.

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Razer plans to announce more details about its Razer Edge 5G gaming system at its RazerCon event on October 15.

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7 Comments Comment from the forums
  • -Fran-
    Oh, look. A 2022 N-Gage!

    I'm sure it'll flop like it as well.

    Regards.
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  • Alvar "Miles" Udell
    Sounds great for China or South Korea, but in the USA with extremely limited 5G services, it should be a massive flop.
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  • hotaru251
    Alvar Miles Udell said:
    Sounds great for China or South Korea, but in the USA with extremely limited 5G services, it should be a massive flop.
    Even then its a hard sell.

    Its Razer branded so it'll be "premium" costing.


    Steam deck is the issue with all these handhelds in that its extremely cheap for what it does.

    I mean logitech has a streaming handheld one for like 50-100$ less than steamdeck..and its awful price to performance. Razor will be more costly due to betetrs specs & stuff but still liekly a poor deal comapred to steamdeck.

    Nintendo is likely only one who will thrive in a handheld market anymore vs Valve (due to Nintendo's IP's commanding a huge fanbase)



    also....the thing is gross looking. Even die hard razor fans will notice that.
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  • _dawn_chorus_
    How did the same company that designed the absolutely clean and beautiful line of Blade 14/15/17 laptops manage to let this monstrosity out the door?? This looks like something from Razer 10 years ago.
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  • Giroro
    I don't understand why anybody with a phone would want a dedicated console to play phone games.

    Most people have phones, so I'm guessing not many people will want to buy this thing.
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  • demonicus
    why would they wanna flop and lose money like google stadia like someone else said. We basically all have super good phones... Make a nvidia network like ps or xbox network would be the way to go and if it has 5g sure hope u can at least txt and make calls drop geforce now well i would
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  • Wilazn
    I can already do this with my Samsung S22 ultra and a razer kishi v2 though... Who would pay a premium (it's razer you know it's going to cost a premium) for a device that will only play games and still need an additional cellular line?
    Reply