Not sure why no one has talked about this one yet but I'm considering buying 3 of them to replace my current CRT shelf.
Overall Unit
Rotating Arm
Control Panel
Back Side
Key Functionality Points
- has acrylic panel to hold instruction sheets
- supports Astro City control panels
- can rotate LCD/LED/Plasmas
- speakers and monitor not included
Dimensions
1400mm x 800mm x 800mm
Price
~50,000 yen
Micomsoft has told me that it should be able to support the weight of CRTs (but obviously not rotate them).
Either way, there are people in the US who have sold similar for the past few years, and might be comparable price wise when after shipping is considered. kraylix comes to mind, sold both with and without a monitor frame
Shou,
Thank you for the news, I think it's an awesome concept. Too bad it doesn't have a stand to raise or angle a crt monitor. Any idea about dimensions or if it will be shipped assembled?. If it ships disassembled then somebody will be importing them into the US.
\o/.k.
Zapf wrote:Either way, there are people in the US who have sold similar for the past few years, and might be comparable price wise when after shipping is considered. kraylix comes to mind, sold both with and without a monitor frame
kebrank wrote:Shou,
Thank you for the news, I think it's an awesome concept. Too bad it doesn't have a stand to raise or angle a crt monitor. Any idea about dimensions or if it will be shipped assembled?. If it ships disassembled then somebody will be importing them into the US.
\o/.k.
Comes disassembled. I'll post current dimensions in my original post. It's worth noting that this product is still in development and Micomsoft is actively reading this thread for feedback.
These are great news. I hope we know soon more about this product, like materials, etc. Now, if Micomsoft could come with a way to rise our crts we would have the perfect desk (if it can support the weight)
\o/.k.
Great idea for a product. I did think about doing something similar a while back with a cheap computer desk, but obviously this looks so much better. Nice to see it takes standard Sega CPs too.
Well, sure you can build one but could you compare both?. What about the time you will spend building the desk, the parts, etc?. Nothing is free. You are going to spend time or money.
Wow, I subscribed to that thread, can't wait to see how it turns out.
If I had the space, I would totally build something like this ... as it is my own computer desk is not too bad -- the keyboard draw slides out and is a perfect height for my stick to sit on, and a pivoting LCD stand lets me play hori or vert.
kebrank wrote:Well, sure you can build one but could you compare both?
Yes, they are both just desks with crap attached to them.
kebrank wrote:What about the time you will spend building the desk, the parts, etc?
For those who enjoy or don't mind getting their hands dirty, this looks like a simple/fun/rewarding project. The thought of spending at least $500 to import a desk (yes, a desk) with off the shelf arcade parts attached to it is lol-worthy.
-ud
There we go. Lol-worthy to you but not to other people. This desk is not less worthy than a cave box for what some people here pay $50 or more. Considering that it is just a piece of cardboard why you don't go to their threads and tell them how lol-worthy are their boxes. I'm positive they wil appreciate your comments. Why also pay $500 for a japanese supergun when you can get a cheap one with a pc power supply for under $100, throw in a neo geo pad and you are ready to go. And by the way, about the link that you posted earlier, the desk looks crap to me. The difference between you and me? I don't go to his thread to tell him how crappy looks to me.
\o/.k.
kebrank wrote:Why also pay $500 for a japanese supergun when you can get a cheap one with a pc power supply for under $100, throw in a neo geo pad and you are ready to go.
Precisely
kebrank wrote:The difference between you and me? I don't go to his thread to tell him how crappy looks to me.
For that logic to work, I would need to be making a personal attack on shou. I made an impersonal assessment of a product which shou has no personal attachment to. If this were shou's creation, you would have a valid point.
This product makes sense for those in Japan (read shou). I can see someone dropping $300 on something like this. However, import fees bring this into the realm of the impractical.
-ud
So in other words the people that buy them are stupid, like the ones buying cave boxes or going to Pottery Barn and paying $1000 for a dining table instead getting one for $100 at Walmart.
The point is that he is bringing attention to a product that is new and worth to him, me and other people. I think he is doing a favor to the community, you instead come to the thread to basically call everybody stupid for showing interest in something that evidently is crap to you.
Why it makes sense to him and not for the rest of the world?. Are cab owners in the west stupid too because they are paying $1000 for a Blast City that costs a third or less in Japan?. On top of that, the desk ships disassembled what opens the possibility for cheaper shipping costs.
Anyway, Shou please post some new information when you have it. I appreciate the good news.
kebrank wrote:So in other words the people that buy them are stupid, like the ones buying cave boxes or going to Pottery Barn and paying $1000 for a dining table instead getting one for $100 at Walmart.
I'm not going to call people stupid for overpaying, but I won't hesitate to point out the fact that they are overpaying.
kebrank wrote:The point is that he is bringing attention to a product that is new and worth to him, me and other people. I think he is doing a favor to the community...
Indeed. I love shou (in an uber manly platonic way), so maybe that's why I didn't percieve my earlier post as offensive. I could see if I didn't know the guy and I was just barging in to poo on his topic, that would be offensive. That was not my intent. Carry on.
-ud
Depends, I've been considering making a small portable control panel/stand. The actual wood working shouldn't take that long and isn't that difficult. Its the painting job that would take forever. It took me 4 months to paint 2 supports to a mirror finish and probably 50 hours of wet sanding (most of the 5 months was down time waiting for the paint to completely cure before sanding). Which equates to about $500/$1000 depending on the quality of the paintjob had I hired someone else to do it.
Meanwhile a kraylix stand kit would be about $700 between the paintjob, woodworking and the shipping.
Assuming the price was right for the xac-1 gaming desk (under 500 with shipping) then it could be a good deal. But all that depends on the cost of the item and shipping (the fact that its compatable with arcade control panels is an added plus).
the links (to the images) are working, but the original website seems to block this hotlinking ... some kind of referer-check. You can right-click and "open image in new tab", or just use the first link at the bottom of the OP.
I like the idea of that gaming desk! Pretty cool that you got instruction space and you can open it like a candy. Very nice idea!
