Razer's Forge TV turned heads on its debut at CES 2015, and it also walked away with some awards.
Destiny Weekly Update: Next Patch Is Removing Crota's End Exploits, Rebalancing Raid Drops
Engadget, the official awards partner for CES 2015, selected the Razer Forge TV as winner of Best Gaming product, and an open public vote also named it as People's Choice.
The Forge TV can stream games from your PC to TV, as well as play Google Play apps and media. Forge TV boasts a Snapdragon 805 processor, Quad-Core Krait 450 CPU (2.5GHz per core), 16 GB of storage, 2 GB RAM and an Adreno 420 GPU for $99.99, or $149.99 with the proprietary controller.
Minecraft Player Builds Working In-Game Word Processor, Is Much Smarter Than Us
Razer also showed off an accompanying lap keyboard and mouse surface combination, the Turret Lapboard, meant to promote playing PC games from your couch. The controller is the $79.99 Serval, which boasts Bluetooth and an adjustable clip for your mobile phone.
"The Razer Forge TV is a solution that brings the best of PC gaming and streaming entertainment into the living room," says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO. "We successfully engineered a micro-console in an elegant form factor with sufficient power and connectivity required of hardcore gamers, with peripherals that uniquely enable high-performance gaming in a casual home environment.
"With the additional ability to stream movies and other media, and to play the best Android games directly on one's TV, the Razer Forge is truly a micro-console for the next generation of gamers."
Forge TV will be available in Q1 2015 through the Razer Store on Razerzone.com.
