KFC releases it's own Gaming Console, possibly faster than XBox or Playstation... oh and it warms Chicken

[Drama Lama]

My life has now a purpose

[Morrie Sells Wigs]

4 hours ago, leadeater said:

Who remembers the 10900KFC rumors?

 

Please Intel, whatever CPU is going in this officially name the CPU SKU in this with the KFC suffix. DO IT!

10900KFC?

 

Nice...

[TetraSky]

19 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

Cooler Master (Product Page)

You're linking back to the forum there bud.

 

I'm guessing you wanted to link this one
https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

 

[Catt0s]

23 hours ago, rcmaehl said:

Summary

KFC has released the KFConsole, A custom Intel Extreme NUC for gaming that also keeps your Chicken warm while gaming.

Media

 

Quotes

 

My thoughts
This is spicier than KFC's Spicy Chicken sandwich. It's likely going to be a small promotional run and will be probably the price of a regular Intel 9 Extreme NUC ($1400 USD or so), however. Regardless, it definitely sounds extremely well spec'd... the wife is due for an upgrade and it'd be stupidly hilarious to grab this. Would you buy this for a gaming PC and if so, for what price? 

 

Sources

Tech Radar

WCCF Tech

Cooler Master (Product Page)

Tom's Hardware (Quote Source)

I was quite literally about to post this after it appeared in my feed… Heres the Google News story, so you can see different sources on the topic.

[rcmaehl]

6 hours ago, TetraSky said:

You're linking back to the forum there bud.

 

I'm guessing you wanted to link this one
https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

 

OOP

[LloydLynx]

Should'a gone with a Vega 64 for cheap heat.

[Jet_ski]

American food chain restaurants will do ANYTHING to get you to buy their stuff EXCEPT making edible food.

[Colonel_Gerdauf]

Should I mention the double irony of the name KFConsloe?

 

Not only is KFC a brand reference to Kentucky Fried Chicken, but it also refers to the three different units of measuring temperature (Kelvin, Fahrenheit, Celsius)

[ThePointblank]

Don't forget KFC's dating simulator game...

 

 

[Kisai]

2 hours ago, Jet_ski said:

American food chain restaurants will do ANYTHING to get you to buy their stuff EXCEPT making edible food.

Well, there is some truth in that. But with KFC, KFC's brand is very much "I'm still cool", because it's never been marketed to kids. Or at least as long as I can remember. Wendys and McDonalds were always marketed at kids, with McDonalds being almost exclusively kid-targeted. A&W in Canada is very heavily marketed here. Arbys I always see ads for despite them being almost completely absent from Metro Vancouver, likewise Good luck trying to find a Taco Bell.

 

Taco Bell is owned by the same parent company as KFC, which is why it's strange why there are so many KFC's in metro Vancouver, but zero Taco Bell's. So if I were to suggest anything, the company (Yum brands) tries hard to keep the KFC brand relevant, without being toxic. A KFC video game? A KFC Movie? A KFC game console? It's all about keeping the brand in peoples mind. When you ask someone where you live what is the first brand they think of when you ask about fried Chicken, it'll probably be KFC, because KFC is everywhere. You can't say the same for any other chain, because none of those other chains tend to be international. Like there are KFC references in a lot of Japanese culture stuff, and KFC doesn't even need to be namedropped for people to get it.

 

https://journeytothewiredwest.com/anime/the-curse-of-colonel-sanders/

 

alternatively

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel

 

Like I can't even name another foreign fast food presence in Japanese culture other than 7-11

 

Dr.Pepper shows up in several things, but even Dr.Pepper isn't as popular as KFC in Japanese culture.

[Brooksie359]

46 minutes ago, Kisai said:

Well, there is some truth in that. But with KFC, KFC's brand is very much "I'm still cool", because it's never been marketed to kids. Or at least as long as I can remember. Wendys and McDonalds were always marketed at kids, with McDonalds being almost exclusively kid-targeted. A&W in Canada is very heavily marketed here. Arbys I always see ads for despite them being almost completely absent from Metro Vancouver, likewise Good luck trying to find a Taco Bell.

 

Taco Bell is owned by the same parent company as KFC, which is why it's strange why there are so many KFC's in metro Vancouver, but zero Taco Bell's. So if I were to suggest anything, the company (Yum brands) tries hard to keep the KFC brand relevant, without being toxic. A KFC video game? A KFC Movie? A KFC game console? It's all about keeping the brand in peoples mind. When you ask someone where you live what is the first brand they think of when you ask about fried Chicken, it'll probably be KFC, because KFC is everywhere. You can't say the same for any other chain, because none of those other chains tend to be international. Like there are KFC references in a lot of Japanese culture stuff, and KFC doesn't even need to be namedropped for people to get it.

 

https://journeytothewiredwest.com/anime/the-curse-of-colonel-sanders/

 

alternatively

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_the_Colonel

 

Like I can't even name another foreign fast food presence in Japanese culture other than 7-11

 

Dr.Pepper shows up in several things, but even Dr.Pepper isn't as popular as KFC in Japanese culture.

Yeah I have to say publicity stuns like this are rather effective. I mean they even got a whole post on this forum with tons of people talking about it from it. I doubt a simple TV commercial would do the same thing for them. 

[rcmaehl]

3 hours ago, Kisai said:

Dr.Pepper shows up in several things, but even Dr.Pepper isn't as popular as KFC in Japanese culture.

[Bombastinator]

23 minutes ago, rcmaehl said:

My understanding is the whole Japanese KFC thing is at one point there were almost no turkeys in Japan so KFC did this wildly successful “KFC for Christmas” thing.  In Japan KFC is Christmas food.

[mazzinia]

https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/

 

I think that it would make a perfect item for an episode , be it benchmarking or teardown, or both ( or just snacks eating... )

[MartinKweh]

Oh my lord. I thought the literal fan case was already extreme that one takes the cake. Or the chicken 

 

[Spotty]

28 minutes ago, mazzinia said:

I think that it would make a perfect item for an episode , be it benchmarking or teardown, or both ( or just snacks eating... )

Thread merged with the existing discussion on the topic.

You can also suggest this as a video idea for LTT here in this topic:

 

[D13H4RD]

Also, looking at it more, the GPU looks like it's an RTX 2060.

 

Whatever the specs are, I am pretty convinced that this is a marketing exercise, not unlike the Xbox Series X fridge.

[Avus]

Finally there is a legit reason to use Intel CPU over AMD. We need the heat from 14nm++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Nerdom]

20 hours ago, LloydLynx said:

Should'a gone with a Vega 64 for cheap heat.

Or a 10980XE w/ a RX Fury

[thrasher_565]

On 12/22/2020 at 1:32 PM, TetraSky said:

Ew, keep that chicken away from my PC. Last thing I'd want is grease stains on my Keyboard and mouse.

hmm i got cheetos on my mouse... makes a good grove.

[thrasher_565]

On 12/22/2020 at 5:09 PM, WaggishOhio383 said:

I remember KFC making a commercial about this a while back. I thought it was a joke, but I guess Cooler Master decided to make it a real thing.

 

It's not really a console though. It's just a PC designed to somewhat resemble a console.

a "console" hooks to a tv, has an controller, and has its own os. i been saying it for years just make a dame pc. if you want an "console" look sell a pc case that looks like it.

[thrasher_565]

On 12/23/2020 at 3:53 PM, Jet_ski said:

American food chain restaurants will do ANYTHING to get you to buy their stuff EXCEPT making edible food.

kinda sounds like games now days they rather buy micro transactions then play a game...

[BiggBug]

Linus should get Madison Reeve to test this for them. She games and also eats chicken every day.

[Mnpctech]

They came to me last year about building this. I'm glad I was already busy with other commitments.

[SpikeSpiegel]

On 12/22/2020 at 3:04 PM, DildorTheDecent said:

Imagine the smell.

Ah yes the 11 herbs and spices and that dirty and greasy KFC air...yum.