News - ROCCAT unveils a product to help PC gamers reclaim the sofa

[HEXUS]

The SOVA combines a gaming keyboard and mousepad in a large wireless tray.

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[Plasmastorm]

1: I'm not moving my pc to the living room
2: Already have a very comfy computer chair anyway
3: Already have a 29" 21:9 monitor
4: Looks nice but see 1-3

[abychristy]

1: I'm not moving my pc to the living room
2: Already have a very comfy computer chair anyway
3: Already have a 29" 21:9 monitor
4: Looks nice but see 1-3

Me too

[aatje92]

How is the key rollover? With a mouse added and all that, does it use 2 usb ports in the PC? What color MX switches? (Please add an option for black switches).

[wingtit]

Good idea, but it will be too much money for the market its aimed at.

[Brian224]

I guess that as Steamboxes are being sold with Windows due to controller delays, it will create a market for keyboards like this.

As far as improvements are concerned:
1: Soundcard so wired headphones can be plugged into it.
2: cup holder

[Corky34]

No mention of the dimensions, my betting is this is wider than my lap so maybe prone to tilting if pushed down on one side or the other.

[Jingee]

This thing definitely needs a microwave strapped to the side. And a Swiss Army Knife.

[satrow]

News - ROCCAT unveils a product to help PC gamers who don't need arrow keys reclaim the sofa

Just fixin' the title.

[Tinolan]

Be able to swap keyboard sides for Lefty's

[Ttaskmaster]

Gaming laptop.
Steam streaming.
No worries.

Reminds me of the Roccat keyboard that you could slot an iPhone into, where it works as a trackpad-keypad-touch display of game/context-dependent extra buttons-[insert dynamic innovative buzzwords here].
IIRC, it fell flat on its face because too many people owned too many different types of Android phone instead!

I like Roccat. I find their products are generally a bit on the naff side for my preferences, but I give them serious kudos for trying and hope they one day come out with some insanely cool stuff!

[Percy1983]

I just use a 360 controller if downstairs on the TV.

[DaVince]

1: I'm not moving my pc to the living room
2: Already have a very comfy computer chair anyway
3: Already have a 29" 21:9 monitor
4: Looks nice but see 1-3

Great. That just show that this product wasn't meant to be for you, though.

[Ttaskmaster]

Also... 're'-claim the sofa??!!
Since when did we have claim enough to lose it?

Sofas are where those football-watching thick-heads sit to wasting their time... Swivel-chairs are the domain of the intelligent computer geeks!!

[Dooms]

Hmmm see the problem I have is anything that I play with a keyboard and mouse I want to be sitting in front of the screen...

FPS - Twitch & I want to see things very clearly.
RTS/MMO - UI and Tooltip issues. Either resolution=tv size will make everything huge & ugly OR using a UI scale will make everything illegible.

Now the things I want to play on the big TV are console ports, 3rd person action games, driving games, platformers etc... and these all play excellently with a controller.

[TooNice]

Hmm, I rather enjoyed playing L4D on a projector screen back when I had one. At the time I had to put a wooden (and pretty heavy) laptop table on my lap to use my keyboard / mouse. This could be a more elegant solution, but I wonder about the price. It also look pretty huge to me, it would have been nice if the keyboard could be used standalone without the mouse/hand rest.