- This is the ultimate PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch
and PC gaming setup.
From this single spot, not only can we play
all of the games at the same time,
but we can also stream and record them all
with this simple setup that only took us
several months to put together.
The crown jewel of our setup really is how we have
all of our consoles and PC connected through an HDMI matrix.
So we actually did an entire video on this,
but it works fairly straightforward.
So basically, all the cable management is being done.
We previously had this set up with the PS4 and the Xbox One.
But now that we have all the new,
brand new generation consoles,
we have them all running through this matrix,
which can support 4K60, and then they go either up to the TV
or they go into our PC so we can capture, stream,
whatever we wanna do.
So for example, right now,
if the PS5 wants to wake back up again,
we have our PS5 up on the TV.
So if I just wanna play some Cyberpunk, ha ha,
joke's gonna be dead by the time this video's live,
I can do that.
However, if I want, I can just go and flip that over here
so I can throw the Xbox up on the TV.
And then instead, I wanna play, oh I don't know,
some Switch down here, I wanna record it,
so I can just simply do this and it will switch that over.
And then if I want to do some streaming, I can then do this.
So now, with just a couple of button presses,
I have my Xbox, which I can play,
I have my Switch here, which I can record
and I have my PS5 here, where I can stream,
all with literally a couple of presses of a button.
Did I have to rehearse that a million times
to make sure I didn't send up the wrong thing?
Yes, yes I did.
But it is super nice to be able to have the ability
to play not only all of our consoles, but also our PC,
because that's still looped in here,
in any orientation we want, right?
So when it comes to actually using the setup,
it's, well, not quite done.
I mean, these things are always a work in progress,
but I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna get down here.
I should be fine.
So now I can easily game, stream and record,
all from one comfortable battle station.
If only I had some, some support, Matt.
If only you could bring in some support right now, thanks.
So now that we have a box to sit on,
I'm very happy to be able to game.
No, so Razer actually were very kind in hooking us up
with some of their peripherals,
not only on the actual gaming side
but also their brand new Iskur gaming chair.
Now what is a Razer gaming chair?
I don't know, it looked cool.
They said, "Hey, you wanna take a look at it?"
And I was like, "Yeah."
Well, it does say this is perfect gaming form
and it surely couldn't be worse than the form
I just showed off.
I just like how you clicked on a video
talking about the ultimate PS5 and Xbox gaming setup,
and now you're watching two dudes build a chair.
Aren't you happy with your YouTube watching habits?
I mean, it looks like a lot, but honestly, it's not a lot.
There's eight things here, we'll be done in an hour.
All right, I'm ready, let's go.
Oh!
(groaning and laughing)
I believe in myself.
- Just tap in whenever you need to, buddy.
- Nope, I got it.
I have determination and a small amount of luck
has gotten me to this point in my life
where I can sit on my chair.
Where's my thing?
Matt, where's my thing?
I wanna game!
I wanna be MLG or whatever the kids call it these days.
So now it's time to actually finish building the setup
and show you one of the most important components
of this entire place, which is our lighting.
Now, you might see that we have a couple of panels
right here for streaming.
However, if you look up, you'll see that we've got
just a little bit more to it than that,
and it's all controlled by this here iPad.
Now this, of course, not only is a gaming setup,
but it also is a functional set for us.
Now this room has been a lot of things over the years
that we've had the office, but right now,
it is probably the best sorted that it has ever been.
So not only do we have a ton of fixtures
all around the top of the room, but importantly,
they're all controlled with this,
an iPad using an app called Luminair,
which connects via Wifi to a DMX Box,
which controls literally everything in the room.
So right now, this is the general preset,
so most of the lights are on.
It's generally meant so that no matter where
I walk in the room, it works.
However, if I wanna sit down on the couch, for example,
then I can very quickly change
the entire preset of the lighting.
It's one of the nice things about the way we have the setup,
is that no matter what time of day it is,
we've got all the lights blocked out,
we can get the exact same sort of setup.
So say, right now, we have the preset
where you're looking toward the wood.
But if you wanna come over to this side,
I can then turn it on to the head on angle,
which kicks on another couple of lights.
You can see how literally this is just a one tap thing.
I can switch back and forth pretty much instantly.
Now there are a lot of advantages to this.
First of all, we don't have to do a lot of camera setup
or changing our color, because it's all baked to be
the exact same no matter where we are in the room.
Instead, all of the differences are completely down
to the lighting presets.
Even if I wanna turn this way, we flip it over
and there's a completely different preset
based on which way I'm looking in the room,
because we have, this is not a massive space.
We have a ton of different individual looks
that we can use for each and every thing
that we shoot in here, which is very cool.
Of course, this is helpful for things like streaming,
but it's also helpful for when we're shooting normal videos.
So for the next part of the setup,
we actually have to shut everything off
because we have one more thing to integrate.
So big shout out to APC
for sponsoring this part of the video
and hooking us up with this.
So this is the Pro Gaming UPS.
The idea here is that with all of the very expensive
electronics that we have connected,
not only do you wanna make sure that they're nice and safe,
but importantly, we also wanna give ourselves
some extra time.
There have been fairly regular blackouts here recently,
and this will give us at least a few minutes
to wrap up the game, stop the stream, stop the recording,
whatever it is that we're doing,
before everything just goes out.
So if you don't know what a UPS is,
essentially this is a battery backup for your gear.
So you have your router in here, your computer,
your game console, whatever the case is,
and not only will it help smooth that power out,
but importantly, if the power goes down,
you will have at least a few minutes
to wrap up whatever it is that you're doing.
Now, I need to put this in the setup.
Thankfully this is a gaming UPS, which is something new.
We actually have one of these, a much larger version,
in our server rack, but the idea with this
is not only is it designed and it's sized and priced
accordingly for gamers, but importantly,
you have a full RGB circle,
'cause it's not a gaming accessory if you don't have RGB.
But it actually is legitimately useful,
as you'll see in a minute.
This is a massive battery
and it will do a full 900 watts of power,
which should be plenty for pretty much
any gaming PC out there, including stuff like your router,
stuff like your PlayStation, your monitor.
Now of course, it will not do that forever,
so to maximize the run time,
I'm probably only going to plug in a few things to it.
You also do have a normal surge protector outlet,
which doesn't run through the battery,
so you can only plug in the essentials here.
So right now, we have everything connected to our APC unit,
which includes our PS5,
and right now, we also have a lot of the lights
and the TV on.
That ultimately won't be the final setup
because we really just need one of the gaming monitors
to actually be fully supported.
Some of the other ones can go into the surge protector,
but the nice thing is we have a full back-up display here
so not only do we have our RGB ring
so we can change the actual colors,
we also see exactly how much load we're pulling through it.
Now, the fun part of this whole thing
is that now that we are all connected and protected,
I can just unplug it and it'll still work.
So I probably should've planned this out ahead of time,
but this cable right here, as you can see,
is going into the back of the unit.
If I unplug it, oh look, everything's still running.
Now, it's gonna go red
because I didn't actually fully charge it,
but if I hit the button,
right now we are currently running on battery.
So the entire setup, the display, the PS5,
all of these lights are running not from power,
so if all the power in the actual office was out right now,
it wouldn't make a difference.
It's all running off of our battery back up.
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So right now, we have our gaming PC,
which of course is powered by a 32-core Threadripper.
We have 64 gigs of RAM, a 5700X,
as well as we have a secondary Little Dipper system,
which is a Ryzen 9 16-core system, 32 gigs of RAM
and another 5700 XT.
Now that is our PC side, and on the actual display side,
right now I have the Xbox running into the PC
so we can capture it, but we have it routed to this monitor.
We also have the PS5 up on the TV,
so I'll just open up Astro's Playroom for a second.
And then on our last monitor, let's open up, I don't know.
Let's play, I have Overwatch on this system, right?
So PS5 makes total sense,
so we're getting that native 4K60 over here.
On the actual, oh God, and now to be fair,
this is probably not the way you should play
something like an Xbox game.
So you see there's a little bit of latency,
which is essentially because we are looking at the preview.
So if I was actually doing this properly,
I would have one display up just for preview
and have another display natively routed.
So I'd have it on the TV, for example,
so I would be able to see exactly
what the game play looks like.
And at the same time, I can hop into a PC game
and because everything is routed together,
we can very easily play games, stream games
and I can look cool as I kill the bots
because I can't do anything else.
Next upgrade, we're gonna label the remote.
Oh wait, we're back to where we started,
so Xbox is back up here.
So that is, 'cause it should go one, two, three, four.
There we go, all right.
Simple.
So now, I can play a game of Ori on the TV with no latency,
a direct feed, and at the same time on the PC,
I can be gaming or streaming
or recording all of that footage at the exact same time.
Ken, would you care to explain how the gaming,
and specifically the streaming aspect of this works?
'Cause I'm getting confused with that remote.
- [Ken] Sure.
- [Austin] Welcome back.
All right, so walk us through the streaming setup side.
- Yes, so basically we made this desk with the mindset
that anyone that streams in the office,
which are actually a lot of us,
can come in and stream to their Twitch channels,
or if they need to record gameplay, they can do that.
And a lot of the stuff that's here will probably look
very familiar to you if you've seen
a lot of streaming setups.
The Go XLR is probably my favorite thing
in this entire setup
because it is probably one of the easiest
and most tactile ways to monitor and control your audio.
You can configure all of the RGB
and all of the faders and stuff.
Most importantly though, the king of all of it,
is the microphone.
This is one of the most popular streaming microphones.
They obviously use it for podcasts as well.
This is the Shure SM7B.
It does a really good job of making you sound
like you're a radio personality.
If you have a deep voice especially,
it really accentuates that.
In addition to all of that though,
we have a Stream Deck, which is something
also that you've probably seen in a lot of streaming setups,
but there's a reason why this is used a lot.
It gives you access to a lot
of different shortcuts if you want.
You can configure every single button
with the screen that is behind the buttons.
Also, as Austin is looking at,
we have our Elgato Key Lights.
So we've kind of leaned into
the Elgato ecosystem a little bit.
What's cool is that on the Stream Deck,
there is integration with all of the Elgato stuff.
So for example, I can turn it off.
These are controlled via Wifi.
And again, this is all made with streamers in mind
because the last thing you wanna think about
when you're streaming is turning on
a million different things,
having to reach behind the light, hit a switch.
You don't wanna do that for every single thing that you own,
so for as long as you can just sit down,
hit a switch, perfect.
Now whenever Austin is doing this
where we're shooting the desk,
when we have this just as a backdrop,
we like using these key lights as practicals,
meaning they don't need to be extremely bright.
We want them to be tuned
to the rest of the lighting in the studio.
However, when we have our camera setup here,
what we can do is actually tune it
for this particular camera when we're streaming
and just want bright light at us.
And now we are in the streaming setup itself.
We have set up our Sony A7S3, which we intend to use
for streaming when we're not actually filming
with it on the daily, and it is being piped
into our Elgato 4K60.
We are recording right now in OBS, in the highest quality
that we can, just to demonstrate that it is possible
to record high quality streams with this.
And on top of that, we are using our top level
audio setup for streaming.
So we have the Go XLR, the Cloud Lifter and the SM7B
to give us that nice, full-sounding audio
that's picking up my voice.
It sounds very radio-y, it sounds very podcast-y,
the way that we like it.
It is really really cool.
And most importantly, because we are recording this in OBS,
I actually have some of stream overlays here,
as I would normally have in my streams.
Normally on this stream, I do my VTuber stuff,
which I have mapped to my stream deck, look at this.
All of a sudden, I'm in my Vtuber mode.
I'm Kentama, how's it going?
I'm your little pogchamp.
Now of course, this is not the de facto streaming setup
and in fact, it might be overkill
or it might not even have enough for some people,
but this is what suits our needs the most.
- So this is our ultimate PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch
and gaming PC setup.
We can record, we can stream, we can play.
We have a TV, we have a microphone, we have all kinds
of goodies and toys.
So thank you very much for watching.
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If you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go try to play
three games at once one more time, just one more time.
I can do it this time.
I believe in myself 'cause my mom told me
that I can do anything I put my mind to.
Actually that's a lie, Doc Brown told me that.