Flush with the success of its
G13 gameboard, Logitech is now creating a whole series of peripherals that will all work together to celebrate the seventh letter of the alphabet. The G-series line includes a new $199 G19 keyboard, offering a 320 x 240 color LCD mounted on top and 12 "G-keys" that can have up to three macros assigned to each. Next up is the $129 G35, a 7.1 surround-sound headset with integrated "voice-morphing" options for those who'd rather sound like a space squirrel than domestic gamer. Finally, there's a new flavor of the
G9 mouse, dubbed the G9x, which loses the photo-overlay in favor of a maximum DPI of 5000 -- that's a whole 1800 more than before! Those extra dots will set you back $99 when the G9x releases in April, while the keyboard and headset should come about a month earlier.
posted Jan 6th 2009 11:06AM
Awesome!!! now I can set all my macros for cake mania!!!
Now you can set Macros for your Macros
I want a macro that makes new macros
Yo dawg we heard you like macro keys so we put some macro keys on your macro keys so you can use your macros while you're using your macros.
(no I don't know where that meme came from either)
From "Pimp My Ride"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimp_My_Ride#Pop_culture_references
And the geek shall inherit the earth…
why not just work for logitech?
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Wow, wouldn't 5000 be unusable in most games? I hardly go above 1500 on my G5.
Pretty soon it'll be over 9000!
That really isn't funny. I should'nt be laughing.
Crank up the DPI and lower the sensitivity, it gives you more accuracy and is still controllable. That's the point of it anyway, though I think the whole DPI thing is really a waste of time.
Yes the 3200dpi on my G9 is already laughably high.
But, I already do that, and it's sensitive enough unless your using some 19200000000000x10800000000000 display where you would be skipping pixels.
If I ever saw someone over the age of 16 playing with this, the only word I'd be able to conjure is "asshole". Really, is this what life has come to? Gamers, get a girlfriend, get out of the house! Sunlight and fresh air won't kill you. And so what if Lord Remulack from the planet of Squab tortures your avatar while you're away, you'll at least have your dignity.
Hey... Im a gamer, have a wife, and love to be online and playing! AND SHE LETS ME!
Get over yourself tupelo, gaming isn't just for kids anymore.
im lord remulack and you know nothing of my work
Actually, I -am- a wife, and my husband and I both play. I replaced my Nostromo with the G13 last week and I absolutely adore it. Not everyone who plays computer games with skill are no-life basement nerds with no hope of successful relationships. But thanks for playing.
So because someone likes gear they are an asshole? You realize what site you are on right now right?
That thing's a beast! I'd be afraid of using it, it might try to harvest my body for some kind of robotic power source.
I'm not much of a computer gamer, but that rig sure tempts me.
now thats a great add-on to my command center.
Because Simplicity... is for Pussies.
That set looks sweet, and I cant wait to get those headphones! WOW They look pimptastic for 129$ 7.1 surround goodness
Wow, I think I may have stumbled upon the anti-me. Hey anti-me!
well hello!? I just had a roomate move in, I am going to need awesome headphones to replace my 7.1 Audio system that shakes the apartment... I dont see anything wrong with that?
Hello. Well for a start you only have 2.0 ears.
Anyway, never mind, didn't mean nothin by it :-)
@Wolf
You have 2 ears, not 2.0 ears. If someone drops something behind you, you can tell it is behind you based on echo, how your ear funnels the soundwave to your drums, etc. This may simply have 2-3 drivers in each earphone, which can emulate 7.1 surround sound.
Actually, people mostly use the difference between what they hear in their left and right ears to tell what direction a sound is coming from. If you have some stereo headphones about, see here for a good example of this: http://www.moillusions.com/2007/04/virtual-haircut-audio-illusion-mp3.html
7.1 speakers work because they physically position the different sound sources around you. Having more than 2 discrete channels on headphones is largely pointless, especially if you have a decent quality stereo mix.
Good Lord. How much faster can I set up my dispenser, teleporters, and sentry gun with this thing?
Not as fast as I can sap your sentry, dispenser, teleporter, and backstab you.
I hate spies
Lol. I wish I could Uber my SG.
To be added on my list when I decide to conquer the world !
Thanks Logitech... Yet you still have to fix your damn un-updated G9 Setpoint drivers but you have the time to release a new G9 version before that I get mine fixed...
Seriously? For my taste that's a little too much.
Yesterday I watched Death Race. This set kind of looks like the big fat armored car :D
I believe domestic gamers already sound like space squirrels.
I just realized I need all of those.
what about the DVORAK layout?
Get the first G15 (blue one), and pop out the keys into a DVORAK layout. And yes I typed this on my G15 swapped into a DVORAK layout.
I cant even begin to imagine all the driver/bloatware that will come with all that. *shudders*
I have a G5 and G15 and I don't recall any bloatware, as for the drivers there was 2 installers (keyboard and mouse) that included the software to customize the settings and LCD display.
G35?
Makes me want to buy an Infinti.
"2.0 ears" :-D
Right, because you need DVORAK to press WASD faster
well, i kinda like being home.
and while i do have a girlfriend (well more like some.)
They think that being a nerdy gamer is hot.
so good for me! lmao.
If any female saw that thing in your house....... you would be sorely mistaken, if you think youre gonna get some tonight.
Excuse me, but my extremely hot Brazilian girlfriend just loves my blue G15. AND she plays WoW. Horde, no less.
Get with the times, Grandpa. And I am 33.
$200 for the G19!?!?
I'll stick with my G11 TYVM.
Yeah, and maybe another grip other than that fairly useless (if cool) photogrip please, Logitech.
Logitech fanboys everywhere, including myself, just shed a tear of joy. Is this really Logitech's first attempt at a headset geared toward hardcore gamers? I would gladly opt for this G35 over the Razer Megalodon, also recently announced.
The only next best possible thing would be to have them all wireless
Wireless works like crap for gaming, unless you like lag...
Wireless in gaming = fail.
Wireless = fail?
Been using a Logitech MX1000 for nearly four years now with no lag. Or fail.
Logitech G7 (wireless) = NO Lag!
Seems you left out the info on the G13 Gameboard as shown in the pic?
The link to the two blurbs they've already written not good enough for you or something?
my only grief on this, are the keys .... why doesn't Logitech start using SLIM KEYS for the keyboards like creative ....
the Fatal1ty keyboard feels way more responsive...
indeed
lulz
I like. Form and function together is a good thing. I'm 43 years old and proud to be a gamer, have a wife, two kids (boy 19 years and girl 6 months), and a life. I don't have much time to game nowadays, with the baby and life, but it was another avenue to keep communications and a great friendship open with my son. Wife thinks I'm a "hot geek", which is cool. The family that plays together...has things in common.
I, for one, welcome our new Input Device Overlords. LOGITECH FTW!
Nice... Except that someone should tell Logitech that before releasing a product like this, perhaps they should take a look at what games (if any) are being made for PC these days. It's not 1998 any more. I'm not spending money on something like this so that I can play 1-2 decent (not great, just decent) games that MIGHT come out for PC in a year. Back in the time of Wing Commander and Tie Fighter this could have been useful.
I hope you never played TIE Fighter with a keyboard.
PC market is around 5 or 10 times biggest than the console market, the detail is this market is fragmented and piracy run rampant.
lol... using WASD via Dvorak would be impossible....
http://www.chimoosoft.com/Images/dvorak/dvorak.jpg
Right? And ,AO; just doesn't have the same ring.
@ Christian Martin:
you mean ,AOE wouldnt have the same ring
Why is it that the $80 gameboard (the one on the left with the joystick) the only one I'm interested in, and it's the only one that engadget felt was unnecessary to mention?
Because they've already made two full posts about it?
Try clicking the link.
hrmm... now how do you suppose I figured out both what it was called and how much it costs.
oh yeah, maybe I DID click the link.
Or I could be a psychic being with mental prowess far beyond your mortal ken.
your choice, really.
I use to buy every new razer mouse variation that came out, but after they kept crapping out on me i stopped( copperhead was my last). Now am using my 2 year old Microsoft Comfort optical mouse 1000 which cost me 20$ and my 1st gen saitek light up keyboard witch new cost me 60 $ new. I regret ever falling for this gamer perephenalia. You have enough buttons on a regular keyboard for macros unless its a much more button intensive game, but this is mainly aimed towards the fps gamer. Please don't buy this crap, get yourself an old ibm keyboard, a nice pair of sennheiser headphones, an optical mouse that feels comfortable, and buy a 15$ headset and put it around your neck with the microphone aiming at your mouth. You'll be happy and so will your wallet. If you suck at games, " gamer" gear wont fix that problem.
Meanwhile logitech is looking into firing some people because of the economic crisis, yet they make a simple thing like a keyboard or mouse 200/100 bucks, yeah I wonder what the problem is with their company..
If these were the only products they sold you might have a point.
Every new product they release is more expensive than the previous one, if this continues only gates and nations and saudi sheiks can purchase logitech devices by 2011, it's their choice though.
I seriously hope "Space Squirrel" is a real setting for this...
Wireless mouse is too heavy
This is some serious ricer shit.