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At a cursory glance this thing seems to be well-equipped to handle emulation. There are a lot of (sometimes sketchy) portable emulation devices on the market but most are pretty underpowered. This seems significantly more powerful (at a higher price point of course).

I'm curious if more folks interested in portable emulation will go for this or wait for an FPGA-based Analogue Pocket.



What kind of emulation? Android phones handle N64, SNES and PSP emulation very well, with a compatible game controller you don't need anything else.


Honestly, I'd prefer the Steam Deck over my phone, simply because it's a dedicated gaming device with integrated controls. I'm always forgetting my gamepad and I hate fiddling with putting the phone in the holder. It's just so awkward. A gaming device in the form of a tablet like the Switch is so much more convenient.


That's a good point. I reckon it'd be fairly trivial to get EmulationStation working nicely on it.




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