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Razer Raises the Stakes in Las Vegas |
| January 19th, 2006 |
Earlier this month the Razer team descended upon the Las Vegas Convention Center and set up shop at one of the world’s largest consumer electronics shows, CES.
The highlight of the show for us came in the form of a nomination for Best of CES product award for the Tarantula keyboard. The field of new products for this event runs into the thousands and to have a Razer product nominated given the competition from multi-billion dollar, multi-national corporations was to say the least exalting. Given the fact that no other keyboard received a nomination was also interesting … keyboards historically just aren’t that different or sexy and rarely receive recognition of interest.
We presented partially working models for both Razer’s gaming and Pro|Solutions brands. These are products in the final stages of development and are not due to reach the retail markets until this spring.
Best of CES 2006 awards.
We lost. And to a very worthy opponent - NVIDIA with their quad SLI solution. In a nutshell, it sucks to lose and even though we knew that we didn’t win the award before the presentation was made (CNET would pre-empt the winners), there was still a pang of disappointment when NVIDIA was announced and not us. So this really sucked - I’ve often said that being second is as good as losing and I suppose this was a clear indication of that - we didn’t win - so we were the losers.
However, on the flip side, we were the finalists - right up there with all the billion dollar companies who were the finalists - Sony, Samsung, Intel, Creative, Pioneer, Panasonic, Toshiba, Palm, Dell, etc. And it was odd to have our tiny motley crew toe to toe with some of the biggest companies in the world. We were probably the tiniest guys in a field of companies hundreds of times bigger than us, in terms of business and people. And yet we were on par with the best of them - In a field of thousands and thousands of new products by huge mega-corporations at the CES Show, ours stood up as one of the best of the show - that’s something to be applauded.
Great video reviews!
Razer Tarantula CNET Review - http://www.cnet.com/Razer_Tarantula/4660-11405_1-6413258.html?tag=vid
Razer Copperhead CNET Review: http://www.cnet.com/Razer_Copperhead_precision_gaming_mouse/4660-11405_1-6412594.html?tag=vid
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January 19th, 2006 at 11:53 pm
you didn’t lose because you won by capturing my eyes to own this powerful mouse! i’m sure going to purchase the keyboard when’s its out
January 20th, 2006 at 6:52 pm
yea me too im soo gonna get that keyboard TY RAZER
copperhead owns every mouse on the market !!!!!
January 22nd, 2006 at 2:54 am
Is it me or does the Tarantula bear a striking resemblence to the Logitech S510? I have no problem with this because I own the S510 and I would have to say its the best keyboard I have ever used and it only has one flaw and that is that it is wireless. I will definately buy the Tarantula when it comes out because it would be great to not have that wireless lag at random times during matches.
BTW I’m loving my Copperhead and my Mantis Control.
January 22nd, 2006 at 5:34 pm
Looks like the best standard keyboard I’ve ever seen. However, there is one aspect I think gaming keyboards have overlooked, including this one. When I play, I don’t like to have my hands far apart, and I think many anothers (including professionals) dislike this aswell. This is complicated by the fact that every keyboard I have ever seen has the only acceptable keyset (wasd, space etc) on the extreme left hand side of the board and thus forcing the player’s hands to be really far apart. I know there are others who think the same because one of my ex clanmates went as far as turning his keyboard 90 degrees so it would take up space upwards, rather than sideways, this enabled him (after rebinding his keys) to play more comfortable as his hands were closer together and more relaxed. I’ve also been told about a person who did something very similar at a LAN. Personally, I had to get myself a zBoard to achive getting my hands closer together because the gaming keyset has wasd, space etc in the middle, not much better but still better. Maybe myself and the two others I mentioned are exceptions, but I doubt it because everytime I even move my hand to the right of my keyboard (ingame) it feels much better. Any input anyone has on this subject is welcome, especially if anyone can link me to a keyboard that has wasd, space etc on the right side.
Thanks.
January 23rd, 2006 at 12:58 am
Very nice. Do you have any high res pictures of the keyboard we can see? It looks different from the inital pictures.
January 23rd, 2006 at 6:36 am
Congratulations!!
Even if you say, a second place is like loosing the competition, im pretty shure that this rating tells you guys, how fantastic your work was.
“Loosing” with a keyboard for 100$ against a quad-SLI for… what… 2000$? 3000$? Well… that does not look like loosing at all.
Besides, i personally think that quad-SLI should not even should have been nominated for an event like the CES. It’s a *Consumers* electronic show. What consumer buys 4gfx-cards? For what? Play CS @ 500fps ^^? Thats a high-end-developer system to me, not affordable by end-users. Next time systems like BlueGene on CES? *shaking head*
Greets and best wishes!
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:21 am
“We presented partially working models for both Razer’s gaming and Pro|Solutions brands”
So, what gaming brands are we talking about here?
January 23rd, 2006 at 3:19 pm
And pr0 tools for Copperhead?
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
yea can we get a release date for the protools ? im like on the edge of my seat waiting
January 25th, 2006 at 10:25 pm
i have to agree With sedaleare on the fact that you Won, and to all of your fans like us WTF DOES A CES AWARD! lol yes it would have been nice but really now loosing to Nvidia is like loosing a Scrim to a CPL CS:S clan when your just a some new Cal-o and put up a DANM good fight, And YET YOU DID BEAT ALOT OF OTHER MULTI BILLION DOLLOR COMPANY’S! haha so i mean all of us know that you product’s Pwn Uberly and thats all that matters. and Btw My Copperhead PWNS and i cant wait for my Tarantula and Piranas!
Also, i DLed your wavs From the Ces05 in the Dl section at Razerblueprints, and you said you would be putting out 1,000,000.00 bucks to lil clans right? what do we have to do if we would love to be Sponsered by Razer????? ill do WHAT EVER YOU WANT! lol
January 27th, 2006 at 4:54 am
Hi, I have seen new products like Lanyard, Neoprene Mat Pack for the mousepad and the Baseball Cap on American Razerstore. Will those products be avalaible also on European Razerstore? Sorry for my English
Bye.
January 31st, 2006 at 5:04 am
Hi all
Definitly i will buy this keyboard when its out
I have the Razer Copperhead and Razer eXactmat with eXactRest
These products just ROCKS
I LOVE them,so good in action and also nice too look at 
LOL
Keep up the Good work Razer
Way 2 Go 
Regards from Norway
February 14th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
I have the razor viper, the Diamondback (x2) and the copperhead. I also have the exactmat with the wrist rest AND look forward to owning one of the Tarantula keyboards as well as the Pirhanna headsets.
Razer +Rocks !!!!!!
February 18th, 2006 at 3:25 pm
You didn’t win best product, but your mice are spectacularly great and i believe that in gaming the input device is more important that an extra number of frames per second (if you already have a decent graphics card). I took the big jump last weekend and bought a copperhead, great mouse, precise, fast and just plain cool. I play on a notebook, but plan to build a power desktop so that keyboard would come in handy since it would be built for games. Keep up the good work.
–Phoenix
February 27th, 2006 at 11:52 am
Looks like a great KB. I just wondered. What happened to the Insert key? It’s interesting the Delete key is twice as big, but why on earth fiddle with the layout? Microsoft and Logitech find it fashionable too, but I am really missing a standard layout.
April 14th, 2006 at 8:48 pm
Me has to be getting myself both a copperhead and tarantula keyboard/mouse! I currently got the razer diamondback (which was my first bought razer product), and i’m stickin’ with razer mouses! I hope the keyboard lives up the the same standard!
I have no doubt it will.
April 30th, 2006 at 3:31 pm
I love the feature list of the tarantula, but the keyboard layout is almost a showstopper for me; The enter key and the (us layout) “\” is something I just can’t cope with. Heck, I think it is a remnant of the time CR and LF were separate keys!
I suspect the mangling of the buttons between the “alphapad” and the numpad is a matter of adding “sidebars” without adding extra width. I say screw it - I’d love a fullwidth tarantula.
Oh, and - will OLED versions be made at all anylonger?
May 1st, 2006 at 10:55 am
May 12th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Happy to hear that.
I’ll probably get the barracuda too, when it’s available. The bit about the demonstration qas certainly impressive