Continued improvements in cloud gaming, communications, and portable graphics capabilities have allowed more console versions to continue to appear, such as the more popular Steam Deck today. A few days ago Logitech confirmed its own version and today we know that Razer is also preparing its own, in this case a 5G portable console, which will be closely related to Xbox and will be called Razer Edge 5G.
As we can see in the tweet below, we already have the first teaser of this Razer 5G portable console, which involves Verizon, Qualcomm and of course Xbox, since it would be intended to be used both for gaming in the cloud, to run applications or stream from your console, to replace your usual mobile phone with a machine dedicated to portable gaming.
BREAK: @Verizon, @Razer and @Qualcomm are teaming up to create the world’s first 5G mobile gaming handheld: Razer Edge 5G! It will let you play your favorite games, whether you’re playing in the cloud, on an app, or streaming from your console. https://t.co/TYPw5xFyeF pic.twitter.com/F9Vg3CfABl
— George Koroneos 🗿🍹 (@GLKCreative) September 28, 2022
Mobile or Console? The new Razer Edge 5G seems to want to cover both fronts
In the teaser that you can see above, you can see several fragments of it, in which it seems to have a traditional design more oriented towards a portable console than towards a 5G mobile device, with which, by the way, Razer has experience. , with the famous Razer Phone, launched in 2017 but which had enough power to run any mobile application. If on this occasion the processor that moved it was a Snapdragon 835, this time Qualcomm collaborates again with Razer, including its new Snapdragon G3x Gen 1.
This was precisely the name of its latest presentation, the Razer Snapdragon G3X, entirely dedicated to portable gaming. Will the new Razer Edge 5G be the evolution? On October 15, during the brand’s special event, Razercon, we will know everything there is to know about this new 5G portable console.
