No one can stop you from spending $3,500 on a Samsung Odyssey Ark
Samsung’s behemoth Odyssey Ark, a $3,500 55-inch curved gaming monitor, is going on sale today after a few weeks of being available for preorders. And — somewhat shockingly, given how gaming launches have gone in the past few years — you may actually be able to just walk into a store and buy one. Checking stock at our local Best Buys, several Verge staff members found that stores had one or two models available for pickup today.
To be clear, I’m not saying that you should casually spend a month or two’s rent on a mini LED gaming monitor that’s the size of a decent TV. In fact, it feels a little bit wrong that it could even be that easy — there have been nine months of hype building around the Odyssey Ark since its CES 2022 debut, and it’s such a bonkers product that it feels like you should need permission from someone to get it. At the very least, your chiropractor should have to sign a note saying that you understand the risks of using a computer monitor capable of completely towering over you.
With that said, I totally understand if you find yourself puzzling out how much you’d get for selling your car and then trying to figure out how you’d get the Ark’s undoubtedly massive box home. (The solution to that, by the way, is just ordering it from Amazon.) But maybe try to resist the call of the void on this one, at least until we’re able to properly review it — Samsung’s similarly outrageous 49-inch Odyssey G9 has found a home on several editor’s desks, but this takes things to a perhaps unconscionable level.
My colleague Cameron Faulkner has spent a little time with the Odyssey Ark, but it’s going to take a lot more testing to determine if something this massive in both price and size is actually worth it versus, say,
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