KFC has unveiled the alleged "4K, 120 FPS" machine that is the KFConsole - for some reason. Whether it wants to or if it knows what to believe anymore or not, the world's getting its first a glimpse of the gaming market's fast food-fueled competition, just a day after Sony revealed their next generation console, the Playstation 5.
This isn't the first contribution KFC has made to the world of gaming, In 2019, KFC released their own dating simulator on Steam, titled I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator. Thanks to its irreverent sense of humor and absurdity, the game received positive reviews on Steam and garnered wide attention upon launch. The ridiculous KFC Gaming brand was itself established just in 2018, with KFC having posted a trailer of a variety of game parodies, such as its Colonel Sanders beating up Ronald McDonald in a fighting game parody. It almost goes without saying, but two years is probably not a long enough time to invest in the research and development that making a next-gen console requires, especially without the infrastructure to actually do so.
In their Twitter reveal trailer, KFC showcased the features that their console would bring, such as being bucket-shaped, equipped with a chicken chamber, and having cross-platform capabilities. It's unknown if this means it's compatible with KFC's last bucket model, or any other consoles this generation. In fact, much of this console remains as unclear as the fast food joint's delicious gravy. Whether or not it will take discs or cartridges, how much it'll cost, what the controllers look like, or even what exclusives it will provide - it's all about as straightforward as a wishbone. KFC Gaming tweeted the below glimpse of "information" to offer clarification for eager fans and hungry patrons.
When asked if there were any exclusive titles on their Twitter, KFC Gaming confirmed that yes, I Love You Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin' Good Dating Simulator would indeed be coming to this new console. Yet, they claim that it's a console exclusive when the game had previously released on Steam. So in actuality, we still don't know what other exclusives will hit the hypothetical system. And when asked how much storage the console would have, they proudly proclaimed that it would be able to store up to 2 TB, which is even more than the PS5's 825 GB, which raises eyebrows, to say the least.
If somehow, in this warped timeline of pandemics and global riots, this isn't the obvious joke that it appears to be, the innovations that the KFConsole brings suggests that the Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo are going to have some serious competition in the wake of this brave new challenger to their established grip on the gaming industry. Supposedly, the KFConsole will launch on November 12th, 2020. KFC now has the world's attention thanks to this announcement; can they live up to their hype and deliver what might just be the most powerful console this generation has seen thus far? Almost definitely not, but it would be awesome if they release an actual scale model of the RGB bucket shown above, anyway.
Source: KFC