Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Razer Edge Lacks the Switch and Steam Deck’s Polish”.
The future of handheld games has never looked brighter, there are so many to choose from, and this isn’t even all of them, but one of the newest is the Razer Edge. I just wish that it was a little more like two of the best ones out there. The steam deck and the Nintendo switch now before you get really upset with me, there’s a reason I’m comparing these, because these have features that I really feel could make this better and it’s what holds it back from me, really loving it as a do-it-all handheld game System so the Razer Edge when you get right down to it, is kind of like a phone with a game controller attached, but an optimized one. So much like these types of game controllers, like the backbone one or Razer Zone, Kishi controller, which snap onto phones well you’re, going to do the same thing here.
This thing is its own Snap-on game controller and that’s how this works. It actually snaps onto this seven inch tablet and that’s your package now you can’t use this on its own. You have to use this when it’s paired and that’s part of the disconnect here that I don’t like if you look at something like the Nintendo switch. Of course, the Nintendo switch has its own modular game controller system. I have come to really appreciate the fact that the switch has its own detachable controllers, that work wirelessly and sure you can also stand this up with a kickstand or you could connect it to a TV. You can play it in a variety of ways.
You can’t do that on the Razer Edge. Really this is a handheld and there are times where I’ve wanted to kind of kick it up with a kickstand. I could make my own – I guess, but again, you’d have to pair a different game controller with this, which I guess you could do, and it’s just not built in as a solution.
The other thing is connecting to a TV which is. This is not designed to do maybe at some point Razer could design this, though, because Razer has done a ton of gaming solutions, they are a very Innovative company and they even designed a gaming handheld a long time ago, also called the Razer Edge that I reviewed A decade ago, that plugged into a TV and was a game handheld and it predated the switch. So I think this needs that type of a dock or I’d like to see that the other thing this lacks that I admire from the steam deck.
On the other hand, is the steam decks optimized design for PC gaming? Now this thing has a large screen and it’s the proper aspect, ratio and the controllers on the steam deck feel really nice and pro they feel like holding a regular console game controller plus there are even these track beds built in that’s very big this. By the way, this kickstand is not part of it. We 3D printed that, but this is a big package, but it really can make gaming uh PC games feel pretty good. Now the Razer Edge is also angling for the PC and console gamer through some of the same streaming, app solutions that are also available on your phone or your tablet. Those are things like you can tap into using Xbox game, pass ultimate to stream some games or stream locally from your Xbox or from your PlayStation, or you could use this to connect a steam link and play PC games.
It works much like it would work on a phone, but the aspect ratio of the razor Edge’s screen is different than the steam deck and the switch it’s very long and what that means when you’re streaming games is it has these black pillars on the side pillar? Boxing cuts out a lot of the playable area and makes the screen feel smaller. I found myself squinting when playing things like Forza Horizon 5., and I watched my my kid play. Elden ring on this, which was a great asset test for how good this is for gaming. On the go. My 14 year old son played it for a bit and said you would not use it again for him, it wasn’t just the screen size. It was also that these controllers didn’t feel as Pro or as console-like as maybe something he was used to it, I’m pointing to the steam deck because they just feel more controller. Like you know, this has tiny clicky buttons and they’re fine they’re, no different than the ones you would use for other phone connected controllers, but they’re also no better.
Now there is the ability to add haptics into this controller, which a lot of games so far. I’Ve not taken advantage of as far as I can see, but other than that. It’S a similar proposition to what you get from plugging in a phone controller and I’d like to see more and that aspect ratio shrinks down the screen so much that it really makes the steam deck screen seem a lot bigger.
And that’s something that I really like to see on. This is an aspect ratio that would fit the games that it seems most suited to play because I’m not just here to play. Android games I’d be here to play console games, so the Razer Edge also brings up another question: why not just use your phone? Well, why not just use your phone? If you have a good phone, you can buy something like the backbone one or razer’s Kishi controller and basically get the same experience for about a hundred dollars. These controllers are great, they’re, versatile. We highly recommend them and they can turn your phone into a perfectly fine gaming and streaming game device with that same aspect, ratio problem, but for a hundred dollars, you’d, forgive it 400, for this is not too much to pay. Considering that it comes with a seven inch, computer tablet thing you know with it, but you know that’s that little thing that you’ve got here is not a phone. It’S not built like a phone, it doesn’t have all the Phone features. It doesn’t have a back camera. It has a front camera, it has vents on the side for for heat, venting, it’s not meant to be exposed to water, so you know you could use it to play. Games like marble snap.
You could use it to play other Android apps or check your mail, but it has its own limits and I don’t know if I’d want that entire package as it currently stands now, the Razer Edge does come with an optional 5G version that sold through Verizon, but The price of that is higher and you’ve also got these cellular data plans that you’ve got to buy into. I totally would not recommend that, but it is there could make it something you could play on the go and stream with on the go, but I don’t think the landscape is set up for a device like that. Yet so at the moment you know who knows what Nintendo’s going to come out with next or what valve’s going to come out with next. But I think that the future of these types of handhelds are going to get more.
Modular are going to get more streaming friendly and I think devices like the Razer Edge are showing where phones and tablets are going to go, but what Razer Edge is right now feels too much like phones and I feel like I would wait um then again. That’S me, but I would be really curious to see what Razer would come up with in a Razer Edge too. If there is such a thing, those are my thoughts right now feel free to add some comments below. If you have them and be sure to like And subscribe thanks for watching .