CES 2025: Acer Nitro Blaze 11, Nitro Blaze 8 Handheld Console Launched Alongside Nitro Mobile Controller

Acer Nitro Blaze 11 and Nitro Blaze 8 had been launched on Monday at CES 2025 as the corporate’s newest handheld gaming consoles. They run on Windows 11 Home out-of-the-box and are geared up with an AMD Ryzen 7 APU, together with 16GB of RAM. Both consoles are geared up with bodily controls which can be positioned across the show, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and there is a fingerprint scanner constructed into the ability button. The Acer Nitro cellular controller was additionally launched by the corporate, and it will probably maintain iOS and Android smartphones (with as much as 8.3-inch shows) and has a USB Type-C port with 18W passthrough charging help.

Acer Nitro Blaze 11, Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Mobile Controller Price and Availability

Acer Nitro Blaze 11 value is ready at $1,099 (roughly Rs. ) whereas the Nitro Blaze 8 prices $899 (roughly Rs. ). The gadgets will go on sale within the US and in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, in Q2 2025. Pricing for these fashions in India is but to be introduced.

Acer Nitro cellular controller
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The new Acer Nitro cellular controller is priced at $69.99 and can be accessible within the US in Q2 2025, whereas the system will go on sale beginning Q1 2025 in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Acer Nitro Blaze 11, Nitro Blaze 8 Specifications

Both the Acer Nitro Blaze 11 and Nitro Blaze 8 are geared up with comparable specs, aside from the show dimension and battery capability. The Nitro Blaze 11 has a ten.95-inch WQXGA (2,560×1,600 pixels) IPS display, whereas the Nitro Blaze 8 has an 8.8-inch show with the identical decision. Both screens refresh at 144Hz, and have a peak brightness of 500nits.

Acer has geared up the Nitro Blaze 11 and Nitro Blaze 8 with an octa-core Ryzen 7 8840HS APU, together with an AMD Radeon 780M GPU and 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM. You stand up to 2TB of NVMe storage on these handheld gaming consoles, which run on Windows 11.

The consoles are geared up with commonplace controller buttons, together with a D-pad, ABXY buttons, LB and RB bumpers, LS and RS corridor impact sticks, LT and RT corridor impact triggers. They additionally function menu, view, fast menu, energy, and quantity buttons, in addition to a devoted Acer Game Space button. The energy button additionally has a fingerprint scanner for biometric authentication.

Connectivity choices on the Acer Nitro Blaze 11 and Nitro Blaze 8 embrace Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.4, together with a USB 4 Type-C port, a USB 3.2 Type-C port, and a USB 3.2 Type-A port. The gadgets even have a 3.5mm audio jack and two 2W audio system. Both fashions pack a 55Wh battery, however the Nitro Blaze 11 may be charged at 100W, whereas the Nitro Blaze 8 helps 65W quick charging.