Acer announces a gamepad-spawning gaming laptop, a 600Hz esports monitor and a PC gaming handheld. Here’s what we liked from the Berlin NextAtAcer event at IFA.
Acer announced a raft of new devices at its NextAtAcer event in Berlin today, including a bunch of AI laptops powered by Intel Lunar Lake, AMD Strix Point and Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors, but I want to focus on the gaming stuff. There’s a protoype gaming laptop with built-in gamepad, the Predator Project DualPlay, an AMD-powered gaming handheld, the Nitro Blaze 7, and a 600Hz gaming monitor, the Nitro XV240 F6.
Let’s start with the one that’s the most fun. The Predator Project DualPlay looks like a fairly standard chonky gaming laptop, but you can press two buttons below the screen to pop out the trackpad, revealing a full-size controller within. This controller can be used as is, or split further with Switch-style nunchucks for each hand. It’s not clear whether there’s a backup option for controlling the computer with the gamepad physically removed — perhaps it connects via wireless, perhaps you just need to have a mouse plugged in — but it’s a novel concept that would definitely draw attention at a LAN party.
