Verizon and Razer are growing a brand new gaming handheld with chip maker Qualcomm. Dubbed the Razer Edge 5G, the hand-held’s goal is: to each deliver the telephone firm deeper into the video games area, and achieve some consideration as “the world’s first 5G gaming handheld.”
5G has been hyped as a “recreation changer” for video games for years, with Verizon taking stage at E3 2021 to advocate for what was being known as the “5G Gaming Revolution.” According to Verizon throughout that presentation, 5G’s Mobile Edge Compute (MEC) know-how permits for builders to chop down on efficiency points in cell video games, and is already in use by EA and Riot Games.
Said Verizon’s chief product improvement officer Nicki Palmer on the time, MEC (and by extension, 5G) lets builders “rewrite the foundations for creating eye-popping graphics wealthy multiplayer motion with out worrying about {hardware} or community limitations.”
Verizon’s made no secret that it desires to develop into extra concerned in video games. It launched a cloud-based service for video games in 2019, and it is doable to purchase a gaming console from its web site or in particular shops.
The Razer 5G will run Android video games and use the Snapdragon G3x Gen 1 gaming platform that Qualcomm introduced again in 2021. Qualcomm beforehand boasted that the platform would help video games irrespective of the platform, and that seems to be true, because the Razer 5G is alleged to play video games downloaded onto the hand-held, or stream it from cloud-based service corresponding to Xbox Cloud.
One hurdle of the Razer 5G is that because it does not use SteamOS, it will not be capable to run Steam video games. Still, Verizon and Razer’s handheld could possibly discover a area of interest for itself in a handheld market that’s more and more rising due to Logitech’s G Cloud, together with the Steam Deck and Nintendo Switch.
As far as pricing and different particulars are involved for the Razer 5G, these will come when the gadget is totally unveiled at RazorCon on October 15.
BREAKING: @Verizon, @Razer and @Qualcomm are teaming up on the world’s first 5G cell gaming handheld—Razer Edge 5G! It will can help you play your favourite video games no matter whether or not you’re gaming within the cloud, on an app or streaming out of your console. https://t.co/TYPw5xFyeF pic.twitter.com/F9Vg3CfABl
— George Koroneos 🗿🍹 (@GLKCreative) September 28, 2022
