$500 Japanese Metal Mousepad! Ninja Ratmat Impressions (SHOCKING) 

Id love to hear your thoughts on it after getting a more stable backing for it, and more time to experiment with it. If you ever decide to make a full review. It took me 3 days to get used to the surface coming off of faster pads. Hopefully ratmat will work with us internationally in the near future .

>coming inside 🤨

Hopefully sometime soon, its on my radar. I tried one at gbaza for a few seconds

No. gonna scratch it up

Unfortunately my table has bumps and dents

I actually do that I have a super thin coating on it and it is by far the best thing ever. So smooth but initial friction is super low which i like. Tracking is a breath. Tack shooter like CS arent that great since the control is a little lackluster but apex and such are just incredible good to play.

use a white board

@@MaskedOG same here, works at least better than my 6 years old razer firefly *i also tried the pulsar superglide and some glorious shit and they both were worse than anything

Yeah its important to keep in mind this launched in 2019 so the hardpad market was way different, also it is supposed to come with a backing but mine is a second hand unit. Still a crazy price+impossible to recommend for a number of reasons

i think it would me more resonable price if u would buy it from them in japan, importing it overthe world and paying for the rarity aspect is the main reason why it cost as much. Hardpads usually are expensive

u wud normally get this thru a 3rd person frfr

They did it was just different. I guess they used a thin rubber sheet to go under the pad. In Japan people lay mats and beds down on the floor and shit. It was my fault there was no backing. Was likely included and I may have thrown it out or tossed it to the side out of excitement to try the pad, also may have confused it for shipping packaging. The pad came packed to the max when I originally got it.

same for 100$+ mice and 50€+ mouse, but people still paid 100 for a pad and 300 for a plastic mouse.

Styllar - the true mousepad emperor... I was wondering if those metal skates will screw up cloth pads.

Skypad sent a wood cutting board out once as a gag, dont think they ever sold it

I played on a wood desk for a few weeks once but it's not a good material for a mousepad. Slow spots develop super quickly where your hand rests so have to clean every couple days but if the wood regularily gets wet it'll start to move and deform so you have to sand it down all the time and eventually it'll become bumpy from that because wood always has some parts that are soft and some that are hard. Glass, plastic or metal is much better for a mouse pad.

@@Katze822228 i recently still used my seven years old razer firefly mousepad, i also tried out the pulsar superglide one (which was kinda meh and sent it back) and now i am playing on my coated wooden desk) I am playing on 2100 dpi though, i think i just need the right mouse feet, i love the frictionless and noiseless feeling, the biggest problem i have are those micro-adjustments. There is just this stickyness in the initial part of moving, so it moves too far abruptly, so i definetely need a solution for that. *i also have a heavy razer basilisk ultimate, i don't know if upgrading to a

That is lowkey genius

Hi! For the size, I think 500x400 or 500x420 mm would be ideal. Hopefully I can try the other versions of the ninja ratmat soon

Either of the sizes mentioned above would be nice to have. I also saw that you guys were talking about selling internationally again, but I'm curious about how the maintenance would work since you'll need to send it in after 2-3 years of usage (for TOU at least). In any case, JPGamingUSA would be a very good vendor to work with if you want to sell to people in the USA.

I don't think greed is the word, they only make a handful of these a year, you can't even buy them internationally. The price mostly comes down to a japanese craftsmanship tax and complex/overkill production process

It's called low production numbers, it's just more expensive to make stuff in small batches

He's just excited about the pad mang

What

What

Da fuck

It’s not terrible, but the price is spitting in the face of customers. If you use an OEM shape, you don’t get to charge a shape tax. Everything else is good not great I’d say

Nah there's always another excuse. Got a wallhack 4.0 thought I'd be unstoppable, sure I played a lot better but there's always something more.

nice

it's lethal for sure 😂

lethal for your wallet thats for sure

If ur playing on 1K Hz which is still the standard polling rate you probably wouldn’t notice much of a difference from say a 3395. For the 2nd part it’s the predecessor of the 3395 which is the predecessor of the 3950. (3370 -> 3395 -> 3950) Any of these 3 sensors are good choices and you’ll only notice differences between them if you actually are crazy about this shit

@@konAPAC oh ok, I get it. That means I don't need to worry about it. thx

Horrible take IMO. You can also buy a $6 AmazonBasics pad instead of an Artisan... so I don't see your point.

@@Styllarr Massive difference paying $35 extra dollars for an Artisan vs nearly 5x a glass pad. Even if you're a multi-millionaire paying $500 for mousepad is braindead behavior.

​​​​​​@@SchralpzIt's only expensive because it's a one-man operation where everything is made-to-order in a metal factory that they own. You can't really compare it since the base price is just higher. The CNC milling + treatment that the metal has to undergo isn't exactly cheap to perform. If you want a good example, you can take a look at custom BAM manufacturing. If you were to make a mousepad using that, it would probably cost around $1.5k lol. Take everything into consideration and the price begins to make more sense. Edit: But whether it's worth it or not for the end consumer is another matter. No one is forcing you to buy it. It's available for the few schizos out there that have exhausted all of the other options or for people that are just genuinely interested in it. There's a reason why they don't ship outside of JP and that's because they don't want to have to deal with international shipping + maintenance and customer support is a lot harder. Also, you can't try it in-person internationally, but you can if you are in JP. Even I definitely wouldn't want to blind buy something like this despite owning 60+ mousepads, so for me this is more of a "try before you buy" thing (I will be booking an appointment with them when I eventually visit JP to attend a gbaza). Most of my friends in this space share the same sentiment as I do for reference.

​@@Styllarr I'm not questioning the manufacturing cost. I'm just saying in general it's questionable to spend that much on mouse pad. That's coming from someone who's spent $1000's on custom keyboards.

​@@SchralpzAnd I can understand that. I've spent thousands on mousepads, keyboards, and audio, but would still be very hesitant to purchase a Ninja Ratmat mousepad. But as I mentioned in my previous comment, the target audience for this line of products is not the average consumer. It's mostly aimed at those that are seeking a unique experience that you can't get with anything else. Most people probably shouldn't be blind buying one, which is why you're able to book an appointment with them to try everything beforehand.

Literally doesnt matter get an aqua control 2

No

I use a 45x50 but I fingertip and to be honest that size would be perfect like I only use a quart of the mousepad like a corner

@@lute_cg I'd rather have more space and not use it, rather than paying 400 bucks for a office mousepad size slab of metal with no rubber backing.

They do provide a thin rubber sheet to place the pad on top of, but that wasn't included with mine since I got it second hand. I imagine they didn't attach a base since that is another variable that could influence how flat the pad is

@@boardzy oh cool. So long as the eventual "Boardzy Shockmat: All Steal Pad" comes with rubber we'll be good to go ;)

That is ridiculous

Price aside, that's like saying that you could get a rubber sheet and a piece of cloth, glue them together, and then have a mousepad that's on the same level as an Artisan.

@@Styllarr it is a metal mousepad, not perfectly engineered piece of cloth with prestine stitching. Not the same thing at all

Go watch a video of Rat Mat making their mousepads. Look at their japanese technology, the expensive machines, the Quality control of how they nail every pads friction perfectly, and let me know when you replicate it. I’ll just buy from you for now on, bro.

​@@jaymz8222You can machine the exact same thing to the exact same specs using old tools, huge expensive machines are mostly for production efficiency

​@@mikerzisu9508Alright, then take a glasspad for example. You can get your own sheet of glass, sand/polish it, but you won't be able to recreate any of the popular glasspads as there's more to it than what meets the eye. You likely won't be able to match the quality or consistency of the surface, and probably won't be able to even come that close to it feel-wise. That's not to say that you can't have something that you're happy with, but it may take more than one attempt. You also definitely can't create an original product like this that easily. There are a lot of special treatment methods that the metal has undergone and it's not something that is cheap. Look into custom BAM manufacturing if you want somewhat of an idea of what a quality metal mousepad would require.