After attempting to use my different solutions for gaming from the couch in front of a 65′ TV, be it wire solutions with long usb extension cords that are ugly and get in the way or wireless solutions that have range issues or the mouse is more responsive and the keyboard is flunky I had gotten fed up and frustrated and didn’t game from the couch anymore.
I would still use the wireless mouse or keyboard for some YouTubeing or similar browsing when I wanted to view it from the big TV to make use of my speaker system which worked ok until my cat knocked down my glass of water all over the keyboard which stopped working even though it was supposedly water resistant. I went without the keyboard for a while using the windows built in mouse click keyboard but after about 2 weeks was fed up with it. Expectations were not high when I started looking for a keyboard/mouse combo again as I didn’t want to use 2x usb sticks. I found the Razor Turret and was intrigued and almost made a purchase but read more reviews and noticed while full wireless was a huge plus and little mouse pad was too small and the magnet mouse board impeded movements making you less accurate. I had added a logitech solution to my cart when I ran into the Roccat Sova which immediately caught my attention. It was very pricey at $150 dollars but just from looking at it and seeing a resting place for your wrists and a large but not too large mouse pad I was sold. I had a huge preferences for wirelss and this was a wired solution but I was so taken away by the product and it’s design that I’d rather deal with a wire. I’ve used the sova for a week now and the only complaint I would have is that it’s difficult to level it from the couch so that the mouse doesn’t drop away when your remove your grip to type. I know that the turret solution of a magnetized mouse-pad while clever only created more problems, so it’s just something I’ll have to deal with, thankful this is less of an issue if you use a wired mouse because they have the bungee holder that at least keeps it on the tab.
9/10 Official Website: http://www.roccat.org/en-US/Products/Gaming-Keyboards/Sova/
