http://www.hltv.org/news/6580-steelseries-air...-this-week

It sounds like a new mouse / range of products that come with customizable shells that you design by uploading images to their site then, this will probably apply to all/many future products aswell considering the way he's put that statement out.

There are a few other companies that offer a similar featureset in the US.. so that would be my guess being the customization of various peripherals has been requested for a long time. I remember QPAD specifically offered a private service for customized mousepad designs on their CT (i designed a few for friends), though they never went public with it.

I'm probably wrong considering noone else has suggested that.

No way you can upload your own shape designs.
Maybe u can choose from some shapes and colors, but i doubt that u can choose the sensor u would like to have.

But man, wouldn't that be cool? A professional frankenmouse service.

:)))))))

me wants!

That would be cool and I actually wouldn't mind paying a bit more than usual if I could get the absolutely perfect (for me) mouse.

people interested in this should try around with 3d printing maybe, its getting really cheap and its ultra precise and easy to design for

Not gonna happen, but if I'm wrong... I'm emptying my backaccount to order some frankenmice (right shape and sensor). Order about 10 of them and never worry again about mice for the rest of my natural life.

What are you on about sensors and shapes? I never mentioned any of that. A shell is the exterior of the mouse, you'd get different customizable designs (e.g. serious cypher deathadder) of that shell.. it's not hard to understand what i'm saying and it's very easy implement an extra step into the manufacturing process for an additional charge to the consumer if the product is designed to accomodate it, and ofcourse if it was deemed feasable. Hell, it would also be possible to implement your incorrect interpretation of what i've said, though that would require some element of standardisation and is almost certainly one step too far, just wouldn't make sense.

Nothing is impossible though. :)

oh that u mean.
well, that would be cool, but actually just a step further in the "design before function" philosophy.

AFAIK steelseries globle website has no stock or normal Xai or Kinzu :?
I thought they will bring back few in stock but from a month they were out of stock.
So they are woking on correcting lots of problem old Xai has and probably they will correct in Kinzu2 too who knows :P

If they keep the (right) sidebuttons and the heavy weight of the Xai I'm not interested.

that's good news.

I wish Steelseries would make a mouse as flawless as their 7G/6G keyboards.

so they should just rebrand a working piece of hardware? good idea ;)

Their first mice were rebranded Microsofts. They had it right the first time, but business is business :(

Rumour is they're just making a Xai2

what is the 6gv2 rebranded from? I've been searching for a NICE ps2 keyboard for some time with no luck outside of the steelseries keyboards

im no hardware guru, but im quite sure i have read it a few times... maybe im confusing it with something else (mice, other kb)
so, i dont know ;)

some Datacomp keyboard

Most other mechanical kbs are rebranded Costars. But the companies can choose to use different switches/caps/pcbs to make them higher or lower quality.

yeah the other nice one's I'd found that ALSO had no keypad on far right *win* were sold out of PS2 and not restocking, and USB doesn't recognize as many simultaneous keystrokes.

Filcos? Those are made by Costar as well. I have a tenkeyless blue cherry Filco (that no numpad you were talking about) that works great. USB is limited to 6kro (can handle 6 simultaneous key presses) which is more than enough; if you really wanted Nkro (can handle any number of key presses), then you would need a ps/2 adapter. Elitekeyboards.com used to sell Filcos, but they replaced them with Leopolds, which are also very nice keyboards. They are nkro (with ps/2) and are tenkeyless too.

If this is a kinzu shape with a solid sensor...I have a feeling this community will be happy.

but what is more probable is that it'll be a 9000dpi 8cd liftoff mouse with 5 side buttons

don't forget interchangeable weights

leds leds leds, shiny piano-glossy sides, genius shapes like the shape of the razer boomslang (I have one of those).

"the unfair advantage"

: P

WMO master race!

http://twitter.com/SteelSeries/status/58728980764835840

Dear lord, I felt like I was choosing between fisher price toys and stuff that comes with a happy meal at mcdonalds.

Sadly agree.

But on the bright side, the mouse form looks like what everyone wants (a WMO with a side button)

pretty sure it's gonna be a xai v2 or something. I usually don't register to such things but this time there's no social whoring and I could do with a 6gv2.

I'd rather have a wmo with curvy sides like a 3.0 and no side buttons though but I guess I'm weird.

Also I'm thinking they're going to have one normal version of this new mouse (that would be the same colours as the kinzu and xai) and also have this community voted colour scheme.

That's what I'm hoping at least haha

Having a community voted colour scheme would be a fun thing if only we didn't have to choose between utter shit and what looks like a pair of 1987 nike shoes.

Implying there is something wrong with Nike's from 1987?

Implying I'd rather not wear anything that looks radioactive.

those look like major clan color themes
orange/black ones - fnatic
blue/yellow - navi
dark/light blue - EG
blue/white - SK
red - tyloo
the only weird are green ones

wise analysis

Good call, never thought of that. Went back and looked at the colours again, and they do look a lot like those teams colours.

:D

One of those colors reminds me of Mr. Rogers' blue shoes. I kind of like it.

It's just that I'm infinitely more concerned with functionality than appearance when it comes to mice..

No you're not weird. I would never buy this new mouse because the thumb button is exactly where I would normally rest my thumb while controlling the mouse. Useless to me.

Yes there is no thumb rest. I cant even see any side buttons either lol.

There's a huge side button right there on the side. If it's not then I could probably use that mouse.

That doesn't look like button to me :P just a big gap which wont give any thumb rest.
I liked last red one :D

It looks like a big side button to me a la IMO 1.1.

I like how i can't select the new mouse as what i want to win :\

Haha, I went through all of this but there is no way they're making me create facebook account :D

same here

signed

+1

It will get you laid :)

noooooooo!!!!! :P

How is voting for colored skins "designed by gamers"?

It's an insult to gamers, tbh.

Not to color coordinated gamers.

Looking at some of those color combinations....yes, still an insult :D

They all mice look same except colours... I don't know what I was choosing lol.
I loved steelseries since I bought Kinzu then I hated it for their drivers. Xai is ok mouse nothing special works ok with old software / firmware. Lets see what this one is offering.

I appreciate that you're learning English, but as long as you have that flag whilst posting you'll look like a moron. Not that i care, but i thought you might want to change it.

Dont worry! not everyone is perfect and not even you!

agreed :D

yay painting!
errr I mean desiign!

right, that was eye-hurting

the violet one looks decent

i hope i never have to give up my logitech :O

When will we finally see a new gaming mouse from Logitech that is decent? Been ages now.

They do release some every so often, they just happened to be geared towards idiots who want 11 side buttons and weird shapes

I wonder if steelseries even knows what prediction and acceleration are. You know it's a bad sign when one of your top sponsored players has to resort to putting a steelseries sticker on a WMO.

Haha, rapha's mouse is just rofls.

i wonder how often he has to re-do the sticker because it starts falling apart :D btw you might just sell the WMO with a steelseries logo - people would go nuts :D

iirc there was a SteelSeries rebranded IME 3.0 at one point, so I don't see why they couldn't. There was a rebranded IME 3.0 Alienware, too, both of those had a different, glossy surface.

features

:-D

i wonder if you ever owned a steelseries mouse before talking shit like that... like take a look at their driver setup?

The second part of his statement made me laugh though. Personally I own the Ikari Laser and Optical and both of them are wicked sick. The Kinzu is unfortunately their opposite. I would like to get a Xai in the future, but I'm not in a rush. Anyway: the Ikari Optical had absolutely no pos/neg acceleration, while the Ikari Laser had adjustable prediction in its drivers. I also think that it doesn't have any accel, but I might be wrong on that.

i'd wait a bit until getting a xai, rumour has it they are doing a xai_v2 soonish.

yeah, that's what keeps me waiting. as is said, I'm not in a hurry.

So this one will clearly dethrone ms optical then ..great!

/"joke"