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hey everyone this is Steve from gamers Nexus dotnet and we are here with Logitech I'm joined by Vincent Tucker director of gaming and today we're talking about a new type of switch and that is the roamer g switch can you give us a top level overview of this keyboard switch yeah of course so we worked long and hard on developing this unique switch and really what we were trying to do is you're trying to focus on how to make gamers lives better so with this romaji switch we've reduced the travel distance by 25% to increase the speed so it's the actuation distance is shorter so you can get more action out faster on your spells and stuff we also increase the durability of the key switch so it goes up to 70 million cycles and on top of that you know everybody loves lighting in a gaming keyboard so it's RGB lit and each key has the RGB LED right in the center so you get nice even distribution of the light and it has a lens on it that distributes it evenly across the top surface of the key and one of the things we were looking at earlier with the with the keyboard was that the switch itself stays out of the way of the lens so I'm sure you probably won't speak too much to competitors but for viewers cherry is cherry switches tend to be rated around 50 million click scale is 40 or 50 million and the switch itself sits above the LED normally depending on if you look at other switch types so that's that's the aesthetics and the LEDs the actuation depth it sounds like was a big focus and did you work with any any pro gamers or anything on this yeah actually we interacted with cloud9 with TSM we interacted with the Alliance out of Europe and we're always doing outreach we have about 10 eSports teams around the world that we interact with to help develop our products and in terms of software can we talk about software at all for programming the lighting yeah of course so the software itself is it's it's quite robust you could you could program it actions you could program based on profiles each key is individually configurable so you as a user or a game developer can utilize our SDK or just individually go in as a user can go in and set up the keyboard in any way you want you can make make it look like anything that you that you want it to look like and when you integrate any kind of scripting support and software it would be really cool if you could have things like keys change color based on cooldown and MMOs and yeah so that's a really good idea and a little bit of that is up to you know the game developers of course right but I can imagine you know say you're playing some game that has a global cooldown you hit the button in it and it goes red to tell you that it's it's been used and maybe amber when it's about halfway back to then goes green or something at the top when it's ready to be used again that would be a fantastic feature that would be a fantastic feature yeah so romaji switches the keyboard can you use the full name of the one that's that's coming out yeah it's the g9 1000 ryan spark and do we have an MSRP target on that yeah it'll be at 199 US Dollars and it'll be adjusted based on the region that they're in okay so there you have it check the link in the description below for the full article coverage and review as it comes out we're filming this far ahead of launch so I'm sure that'll be nice and awkward on YouTube check check the link it'll be somewhere on the website and thank you again we'll see you all next time