Razer Working Further On “Small Form” Gaming Hardware, Say Reports [Theft Of Two Razer Blade Prototypes Not Slowing Razer Down, Set To Focus On Small Form Gaming Hardware Possibly Including Further Laptops]

Posted on TFTS by Steve Anderson on Friday, 25. November 2011 under: Computer/Console Gaming, Computers & Computing, PCs, Notebooks, Netbooks & Tablets

Give the folks out at Razer due credit, gang…they’re not letting the recent theft of a couple of their prototype Razer Blade laptops slow them down any. In fact, the guys who gave us the Razer Switchblade and the Razer Blade are reportedly set to work on some further devices, possibly even some more in the way of gaming laptops.

Razer has long been giving us impressive advancements in keyboards, mice, and headphones, many of which we’ve seen right here. But in a recent interview, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tang gave some exciting (but very much forward-looking) statements about what was set to come out of Razer. While Tang’s statements were very short on specifics, the general sense of things says that they’re not looking so much at peripherals–though based on what I’ve seen out of them so far I hope they keep up the releases in that vein, as they’ve had some really nice pieces in there–but at full-on small gaming systems.

And this actually makes a lot of sense, given the general direction computing has been moving towards. Basically, we’ve seen form factors drop in size and go portable…very portable. When you’ve got GameStop looking to handle tablets, you can’t help but put a little extra credence behind Steve Jobs’ vision of a “post-PC” world. And though clearly it’s not going to go that far for a good long time to come now–people will still be gaming on home-based PCs and home-based console systems hooked up to home-based televisions for the foreseeable future–it’s moves like these, and the new ones coming in from Razer, that suggest we may be getting to a point where gamers are no longer seen as shut-ins in their parents’ basements, but now actually seen, outside of the house.

An interesting idea, I’d say, but will it pan out? Do you guys think that gaming will take on more of a mobile style, looking at a post-PC era as a guide to gaming? Or do you think that home based gaming will still be the primary delivery vector for the gaming crowd, and mobiles will be little more than toys to produce an occasional change of scenery? No matter what your thoughts on Razer’s planned moves into smaller form-factor products, we always like hearing from you, and the comments section below is just the place to do that!