KFC Launches 4K, 240FPS Gaming Console With a Built-In Chicken Warmer 98
KFC unveiled what they're calling the KFConsole -- a VR-ready high-end gaming PC that comes with a built-in chicken warmer. GamesRadar reports: Back in June, just after the PS5 reveal, KFC released a ridiculous trailer for the KFConsole, but everyone just figured they were joking. Turns out, they were dead serious. KFC, the chicken place, has teamed up with Cooler Master and launched a gaming console capable of 4K and 240FPS. The joint press release doesn't mention a price or release date, but I've reached out for clarification and will update this article if I hear back.
The complete specs haven't been revealed, but we know it's got an Intel Nuc 9 CPU, Seagate BarraCuda 1TB SSD, and judging from the prominence of "ray tracing" in the marketing from Cooler Master, an Nvidia GPU. Cooler Master also says the KFConsole has "a first of its kind hot swappable GPU slot" for easy upgrades. But who really cares about all that when it's got a chamber to keep your fried chicken warm?
The complete specs haven't been revealed, but we know it's got an Intel Nuc 9 CPU, Seagate BarraCuda 1TB SSD, and judging from the prominence of "ray tracing" in the marketing from Cooler Master, an Nvidia GPU. Cooler Master also says the KFConsole has "a first of its kind hot swappable GPU slot" for easy upgrades. But who really cares about all that when it's got a chamber to keep your fried chicken warm?
Frist Post (Score:1)
Inb4 "finger-lickin' good" comments.
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Raising Cane's, Church's, and Chick-Fil-A all have better sauce.
Re: Frist Post (Score:1)
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Give the gift that says... (Score:4, Funny)
my only reaction to this (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Greasy fried chicken and game consoles... (Score:5, Insightful)
What could possibly go wrong?
Re:nonsense (Score:5, Insightful)
What evidence do you have that "KFC Gaming", an Instagram page, has any affiliation with the fast food company?
Facts.
Named themselves KFC Gaming with a "finger-clickin' good" tag line. Uses an image of The Colonel gaming on their Twitter page, while advertising the official KFC logo, and they built a fried chicken warmer into a gaming console.
Perhaps no official "affiliation", but obviously some rather massive legal leniency from the fast food company they are clearly uh, "borrowing" from.
Otherwise, we should expect lawyers to shut this entire thing down by the end of this sentence.
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... Otherwise, we should expect lawyers to shut this entire thing down by the end of this sentence.
To add to this, the Twitter feed "KFC Gaming" goes back to 2018 and the news bit appeared as early as June this year. It therefore doesn't matter if it is affiliated, incorporated, cooperated, assimilated, owned, taken over, swallowed or not, it is most definitely welcomed by Mother KFC at this point.
Re:nonsense (Score:5, Informative)
http://lite.cnn.com/en/article... [cnn.com]
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The affiliation is official: "The KFConsole is part of a partnership with hardware manufacturer Cooler Master, KFC said in a statement on Tuesday."
http://lite.cnn.com/en/article... [cnn.com]
The question was if Kentucky Fried Chicken (as in the fast food company) has any official affiliation with "KFC Gaming".
If you read your quoted statement, it says nothing about any official connection with the fast food company. They appear to have a professional partnership with Cooler Master and some massive legal support from Kentucky Fried Chicken. At this point they should make it official with them, because it's basically everything but.
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https://www.eteknix.com/kentuc... [eteknix.com]
Re:nonsense (Score:4, Insightful)
What evidence do you have that "KFC Gaming", an Instagram page, has any affiliation with the fast food company?
Facts.
What evidence do you have that it isn't. I'm going to err on the side of their official partner Cooler Master having done some basic due diligence not afforded to a Slashdot AC.
Peripherals! (Score:4, Informative)
The KFConsole pairs best with this fried-chicken-themed keyboard and fried-chicken shaped mouse [ibtimes.co.uk], not to mention fried-chicken shaped USB-stick and tiny fried chicken ear-rings that KFC launched in Japan in 2014.
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Christmas in April (Score:5, Funny)
With a novel coronavirus decimating the planet this year, I guess I shouldn't expect anything less than this finger-licking fuckery as an April Fools Christmas present.
Perhaps we should stop questioning why the American economy runs on consumer spending. This is so American you're some kind of racist if you don't buy one.
Re:Christmas in April (Score:4, Funny)
Why wait for Coronavirus to get you when Salmonella can do the job much faster?
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To be fair this is a Japanese thing.
To be fair, greasy deep-fried finger-lickin' chicken gaming, sounds about as "Japanese" as a 7-foot redneck using a 12-guage shotgun to entertain at the Superbowl halftime show.
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Leeeroyyyy (Score:3)
If they don't advertise it with Leeroy Jenkins they have no heart.
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The chicken heater that could have saved the raid!
Trifecta is coming (Score:1)
Between Mario Lopez playing Col. Sanders in a Lifetime soap opera, and this new chicken warmer/game console, I feel like someone over that at KFCHQ has gone bonkers, someone high enough up the the ranks that they're spewing out these pet projects in a board meeting, and instead of being laughed at, these projects are being green-lit. I think that means that the pandemic has hit them, and they're in the "let's try anything" mode. Back in April, someone looked at their finances (https://www.onecompasss.com/p
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Re:Trifecta is coming (Score:4, Informative)
It seems like it's just coming from KFC at the moment, because we don't hear about Taco Bell or Pizza Hut making these incredibly sideways moves.
KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut are all owned by the same company.
Each KFC Outlet A Bitcoin Mining Site? (Score:2)
Get double duty from the energy you consume! Mine bitcoin and fry the chicken with the waste heat!
Not new (Score:2)
KFC has been doing this sort of stuff for years. Here's an article from 2017 listing the top 8.
https://www.foodandwine.com/ne... [foodandwine.com]
Not quite there yet (Score:2)
We are still waiting on bacon to concede.
In a related news... (Score:2)
I am amused. (Score:1)
Thank you KFC for making me laugh today. I can't wait for Pizza Hut to fire back.
Re: I am amused. (Score:2)
120fps in the linked trailer (Score:1)
Not 240fps as in the summary.
The only question to ask: (Score:2)
Is it dishwasher safe?
Idiocracy (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure Alan Turing and William Shockley didn't intend their inventions to turn out like this.
240 FPS (Score:4, Funny)
World of ChickenCraft? (Score:1)
Anyone read the EULA yet ? (Score:2)
Would I be forbidden from warming something from: McDonald's, Wendy's, Pizza Hut, ... or even something that I cooked myself ? If I am forbidden: what will happen if I were to try ?
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I don't know, but I have to believe it'll be great for vaping crack.
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they send out an recovery agent out to take the unit back at your cost.
Gravy-based cooling system? (Score:2)
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Does it launch ipchicken.com every time it boots up?
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My office overlooks our chicken run. My wife was looking out the window at the birds huddling in the cold this morning when I read her the headline. She initially thought that I meant a warmer for the live chickens.
I'm not a fan of both, but... (Score:2)
I mean it actually sounds like kid not paying attention can actually wreck his console but it's too good to pass off. I've got to see this console LMAO!!
CPU (Score:1)
What is the CPU's over-clucking potential?
Incredible tha KFC will beat Razer to the punch (Score:2)
Remember the Razer Toaster? No? I do.
Have you been able to the your hands on a Razer toaster? No? Me neither.
It seems that a non-compute specialist like KFC (parthering with Coolermaster) will be able to beat Razer to a neat publicity stunt.
Good for KFC
Re: Heat and computer components? (Score:2)
I think the point was to use the waste heat from the chips to warm the chicken chamber.
Too bad the video had to cater to the LCD by showing what appears to be heating elements, without explaining that those are just LED lights for show. But that would destroy the slick Ferrari style of the commercial. :\
Hot swappable GPU (Score:2)
A hot swappable GPU is impressive, but is it useful?
I mean this as a serious question. I'm not at all into computer games but I do work with hardware where hot swap components are common. Swapping out a power supply or a CPU or line card without impacting the work the system is doing used to be a mandatory requirement for a lot of network equipment, but it has become pretty common to just split the load between two or more systems so that you don't have to hot swap in order to avoid a traffic interruption.
I
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McDonald's Answer... (Score:1)
NUC? (Score:2)
Using a NUC, even if it's the i9 extreme, seems like a weird platform to base this on. I mean, at least it has a double width PCIe x16 slot, although apparently 4 of those lanes are CPU shared.
I'd have done it with a mini-ATX cube style case with the drawer sliding it the side and a duct/fan system to draw air in reverse through the video card.
If you're a vegan... (Score:1)
If you're a vegan and don't eat chicken, you can still use it to keep your nuts warm.
Re: If you're a vegan... (Score:2)
Gives a whole new dimention to "teabagging"
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https://www.gardein.com/chickn... [gardein.com]
A peek at their first game (Score:2)
Warm the chicken with waste heat? (Score:3)
Just an Intel NUC 9 Extreme (Score:2)
A good use of process heat (Score:2)
Imagine what we can do with those gaming PC graphics cards that have enough fans to serve a medium size steel mill.
Oh crap (Score:2)
Of course something like this just has to bring the racist trolls out of the woodwork. :\
Bullshit aside, I read that this device uses the heat generated by the chips to keep the chicken warm, but the Twitter video implies that it uses traditional heating elements. Unless those 'elements' are just LED lights put there for show.
Leerroyyy Jenkins... (Score:2)
In the immortal prophetic words of Leroy Jenkins 'at least I have chicken'.
Room for accessories (Score:2)
Drink & ice dispenser needed. Got to refresh that Mountain Dew.
Anyone else remember "Kentucky Fried Computers"? (Score:1)