SteelSeries has done it again; they’ve created yet another mouse. This new SteelSeries Rival 700 boasts a walloping 16,000 DPI tracking, as well as a unique feature among gaming mice. It has a small visual display of sorts where you’d normally place your thumb. Now just think about this for a second…indeed…a display covered up by your thumb!
Now don’t get me wrong, SteelSeries does make great products for computer gaming and I absolutely love their keyboards and mice, overall.
But as car enthusiast Jeremy Clarkson says, “It’s stupid“. I’m looking forward to doing a technical review later this month on the mouse, outlining its pros and cons. But in the sense of professional gaming, the fact that it has a small display where the thumb goes is outright idiotic.
I’d like to quote Ehtisham Rabbani, SteelSeries CEO, if I may.
“We’re thrilled to deliver the world’s first smart gaming mouse,” said Ehtisham Rabbani, SteelSeries CEO. “By listening to gamers and eSports athletes, we’ve perfected professional gaming mice for more than a decade. The Rival 700 takes that expertise and meets gamers’ needs today, and grows to help them win in the future.”
That means that someone in the design department came up with this and thought it was a good idea. Let’s take a moment to consider this. You are a professional gamer. You are playing in a massive competition, going for a grand prize. But your health is low, so do you look at the screen? Of course not; you lift your thumb from the mouse and take a peek! Your health suddenly drops to zero because…
You took your #%#@% hand off the mouse instead of moving out of danger!
But being serious here, the actual specifications for the SteelSeries Rival 700 is pretty good. I stated earlier though, when we take a look at it in the future we’ll write and tell you if it’s worth the price. Although as always, they could have saved money if they hadn’t put that gimmick on it in the first place. This would mean the product would be cheaper for the end-market user. But that’s just my opinion.
An autistic gamer with opinions on games who also enjoys making dumb videos on the internet!
Even if you couldn’t actually hold one in your hands back in January, you could at least look at the photos. The display, useless or not, is placed far away from your thumb. Even the button next to the display is almost unreachable for your thumb.
So, it’s by no means a display covered by your thumb. 😉
Assuming that is if your hand size and everyone elses hand size in the entire world is the same size.