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This is a nice bit of marketing but... is it real? There's no actual information on the page, no links to any other pages/sites, nowhere to buy it, and no mention of "coming soon" or any sort of expected release date.
> Enjoy smooth and fluid high-frame-rate gameplay at up to 240fps for ALL games, with support for 240Hz output on 4k displays It does sound like a very well-executed joke.
While the announcement was silly, the insistence that it’s a real product is absolutely bonkers. But ultimately I think it is vaporware and they are just pushing the “it’s real” narrative for social media reach.
It may become a collectors item in certain circles just for the meme of it.
While the announcement was silly, the insistence that it’s a real product is absolutely bonkers. But ultimately I think it is vaporware and they are just pushing the “it’s real” narrative for social media reach.
Okay I looked into it and apparently it is not entirely hot air. KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a coup…
They might have to redesign the case a bit, however.
Okay I looked into it and apparently it is not entirely hot air. KFC has a deditcated 'KFC gaming' account that tweets memes that appeal to gamers [0]. It jokingly tweeted a video featuring a rendering of this console back in June as a joke to play on the new gen console wars [1]. Apparently the reception was so good that it found a wing man in Cooler Master. This case modder / engineer in particular [2] spent a coup…
With a decent Threadripper and 3090, there might be enough heat to cook a small chicken. If not that, enough to reheat leftovers. They might have to redesign the case a bit, however.
"Honey, can you make me some chicken too?"
"Sure, no problem!"
(compiles firefox)
KFC has had a rash of failed silly crowdfunding campaigns as part of their ridiculous marketing push. This is almost certainly part of that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5tFlmRUIc For Coolermaster's part, they seem like the kind of company that would dedicate a few engineers to a silly idea for the hell of it.
Another half-hearted product attempt with no boundaries pushed. With a Core i9 they have the hardware to fry the chicken, not only to keep it warm. No wonder Apple keeps shoveling money into their bank vault.
A chicken fryer would compete with KFC, while a chicken heater would heat KFC-fried chicken.
(maybe an enterprise version with franchise-enabled deep-fried deep-learning chicken?)