Razer launches mechanical gaming keyboard, BlackWidow

If you read the press release (second link in the article), Razer states that other mechanical keyboards aren't necessarily designed for gaming, they're just standard mechanical keyboards "rebadged" as gaming keyboards. Anyway, let's not argue semantics guys.

Razer said:
Most mechanical keyboards in the market today are standard mechanical keyboards rebadged as gaming keyboards that feature stiff keys that cause key actuation fatigue. Such keyboards are inherently worse off for gamers as it actually decreases gameplay performance as opposed to enhancing it. As a result, most professional gamers eschew such marketing gimmicks for regular membrane keyboards.
 
Instead of semantics, let's discuss psycho-physiology. The action of pressing a key to type is not independent of of the "key presser's" emotional state. A relaxed individual is likely to press softly, whereas an individual in a highly charged emotional or agitated state, is likely to press harder, more rapidly, and more emphatically.

The result of this is, an individual will have a state based memory of the relative ease or difficulty of the activity in question.

What this all means, boys and girls, and those who would have us believe otherwise, is that in this instance, you really would have to try it in a gaming context, to find out if you like it.
 
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