When you consider Elgato, the very first thing that in all probability involves thoughts are their video seize doodads with the numerous cables and names like HD60. If you’re an avid Twitch streamer, although, chances are you’ll be extra au fait with their many-buttoned Stream Deck controller as a substitute. Well, it’s the latter household Elgato are rising as we speak, as they’ve simply introduced the arrival of the Stream Deck Mini.
As its identify implies, the Stream Deck Mini is a smaller model of Elgato’s current streaming management field, touting six customisable LCD buttons as a substitute of the standard 15. But what’s a Stream Deck controller, anyway, I hear you ask?
Essentially, it’s a one-stop store for interacting together with your stream viewers – whether or not that’s robotically posting one thing to social media in the beginning of a stream to allow them to know to come back and be part of you, activating particular animations or GIFs over your footage, or book-ending your stream with your personal customized intro and outro graphics. Stuff like that that may hold the web meme manufacturing unit completely happy whereas they watch your each transfer.
To see what meaning in motion, have a watch of this trailer for the unique Stream Deck.
The Stream Deck Mini, then, is a extra petite model of all this, however that’s to not say it skimps of performance. In reality, you continue to get all the identical options because the full-fat model, together with native integration for OBS Studio, XSplit, Twitch, Streamlabs, YouTube, Twitter and Mixer to call only a few. You also can drag and drop actions onto any of its six buttons and assign ready-made icons to them, and even create your personal.
It additionally comes with a extra inexpensive value to match its smaller stature. While the common Stream Deck controller begins at £135 / $140, the Mini goes for simply $100 (UK pricing to be confirmed).
It additionally comes with a two-year guarantee, and since Elgato’s gaming division was lately purchased by PC peripherals big Corsair, you additionally get entry to Corsair’s buyer help service in case something goes incorrect.
I’ll be pestering RPS video folks Matthew and Noa to assist me check this very quickly, so collectively we should always be capable to let you know extra about the way it all works and whether or not it’s really value shopping for over the subsequent couple of days.
