Gaming company Razer is developing a mobile device that will be ready by the end of the year

Gaming company Razer has confirmed it is in the process of developing a mobile device focusing on gaming and entertainment.

"One of the most hotly rumored things about Razer is that we're coming up with a mobile device. And I can say that we are coming up with a mobile device specifically geared toward gamers and entertainment," Min-Liang Tan, CEO and co-founder of Razer, told CNBC's "Managing Asia."

[Araragifeels]

Dead on Arrival just like Ouya and waisted of money. They should just drop the project or work with PlayStation to make a portable system. I Doubt that it can compete with Nintendo Switch.

[porkChop]

Razer's Android console didn't really take off because Razer couldn't get real support for it. This is the same problem that every Android console has. Why would this one be any different? Razer should just stick to overpriced peripherals and laptops.

[ChickeyCantor]

The problem is using android. It impacts performance.

[ChickeyCantor]

@Haurus

Those operating systems are designed around running games optimal. If you use Android you're running your games trough protocols that are not designed for low level access.

You're also conflating "preserving" with "bad design". Those resources are preserved so the OS can run separately from the game thread and have ram allocated in a specific part of the ram while having all the bells and whistles. It's not the operating system that takes so much ram, it's all the applications that run on it.

>Current versions of Android use less than 1GB of ram and only partial CPU time on a single core.

Because Android needs to run on low end devices as well. This does not mean games will run as optimized as they would on systems like xbox one, ps4 or switch. These are all dedicated systems to run games as efficiently as possible.

They might as well just run a linux based system with low footprint instead. Not Android.

[ChickeyCantor]

> does not mean it has to run bad on everything.

I never said this. What I'm saying is that you could go with any other linux based operating system and get more out of it. which they should.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Razer android = dead
Razer independent = possibly successful

[Elda]

Please! Just stop!

[Profchaos]

Apple: "we have Just produced the most expensive phone on the market"
Razor: "hold my beer"

[C-H-E-F]

bruh, why do companies think it's easy to enter other industries, Not everyone can be Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft hahaha, it's just an epic waste of money an time and resources, they need to focus that on making decent games that will give them more profit.

[Mr Marvel]

So is it a handheld or a mobile?