# The new KFC gaming console **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773 "2020-12-23T22:50:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/1 "2020-12-23T22:50:36Z")
KFC is selling a new gaming console with a separate compartment to keep your chicken warm while you’re playing. > **[This KFC gaming console is real after all, and keeps your chicken warm](https://www.cnet.com/culture/internet/this-kfc-gaming-console-is-real-after-all-and-keeps-your-chicken-warm/)** > > The fast-food chain unveils a real gaming console powered by Intel that keeps your fried chicken warm while you play video games. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/2 "2020-12-23T23:41:55Z")
Greasy fingers and gaming controllers-a winning combination. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/3 "2020-12-23T23:44:09Z")
So is it compatible with one of the big 3, or does it only run its own games? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/4 "2020-12-23T23:44:45Z")
What’s next, a TV set with a microwave oven? ETA: from the article: > [@](#): > > KFC has pulled other off-the-wall marketing stunts, including a real [KFC fried chicken computer keyboard](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-fried-chicken-keyboard-its-finger-clicking-good/) complete with a chicken drumstick mouse, [KFC fried chicken-scented sunscreen](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-sunscreen-makes-you-smell-like-fried-chicken/), [KFC nail polish](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfcs-finger-lickin-good-nail-polish-tastes-like-fried-chicken/) that tastes like fried chicken and [KFC Crocs shoes](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-teams-up-with-crocs-so-your-feet-can-look-and-smell-like-fried-chicken/) this year. Wait what, nail polish with a special _taste_? Are nails meant to be licked now? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/5 "2020-12-24T01:45:59Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > Are nails meant to be licked now? > **[Amid Pandemic Concerns, KFC Suspends 'Finger Lickin' Good' Slogan](https://www.npr.org/2020/08/26/906145040/amid-pandemic-concerns-kfc-suspends-finger-lickin-good-slogan)** > > The CDC says to avoid touching your face — that seems to include licking your fingers. Facing complaints, KFC dropped the slogan for now. Packaging blurs the words finger and lickin'. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/6 "2020-12-24T02:03:06Z")
This is the End of Civilization. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/7 "2020-12-24T03:11:17Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > So is it compatible with one of the big 3, or does it only run its own games? My guess from reading the article is that it’s a gaming PC build of some type, but it’s entirely unclear just from the one linked. I have found other articles that at least come to that conclusion, though it apparently is just being billed as a gaming console. > **[KFC launches 4K, 240FPS gaming console with a built-in chicken warmer](https://www.gamesradar.com/kfc-launches-4k-240fps-gaming-console-with-a-built-in-chicken-warmer/)** > > Another very normal thing that happened in 2020 That article even says one of the features being promoted is a hot-swappable GPU, so yeah, it’s just a custom gaming PC. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/8 "2020-12-24T15:14:58Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > What’s next, a TV set with a microwave oven? > > ETA: from the article: > > > [@](#): > > > > KFC has pulled other off-the-wall marketing stunts, including a real [KFC fried chicken computer keyboard](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-fried-chicken-keyboard-its-finger-clicking-good/) complete with a chicken drumstick mouse, [KFC fried chicken-scented sunscreen](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-sunscreen-makes-you-smell-like-fried-chicken/), [KFC nail polish](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfcs-finger-lickin-good-nail-polish-tastes-like-fried-chicken/) that tastes like fried chicken and [KFC Crocs shoes](https://www.cnet.com/news/kfc-teams-up-with-crocs-so-your-feet-can-look-and-smell-like-fried-chicken/) this year. > > Wait what, nail polish with a special _taste_ ? Are nails meant to be licked now? The juxtaposition of flavored nail polish and Crocs has me imagining some fetishist luxuriating in licking the KFC flavor mixed with stinky feet flavor off some rancid Crocs worn by some 300lb KFC hound from the hot humid fried-food part of the country. Not a good image. Not at all. Adding gravy doesn’t help; not one bit. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2020, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/9 "2020-12-24T15:59:54Z")
Amen. It’s _definitely_ why we can’t have nice things – UHC, to cite just one. I was actually a bit surprised it didn’t include a ‘well’ for chilling your 2L Mountain Dew. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-kfc-gaming-console/928773/10 "2020-12-25T04:10:14Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > I was actually a bit surprised it didn’t include a ‘well’ for chilling your 2L Mountain Dew. The food warmer just uses the excess heat being siphoned off the processor. Adding in a heat pump to allow it to cool another compartment would probably add excessively to the cost and probably would use too much energy and need a separate power source. As it is now, there’s usually plenty of empty space inside a standard tower computer that’s exposed to the waste heat it generates; they just decided to build a motherboard and case that allows you to separate out some of that section with a sliding drawer to include food.