I’d love to have one, but for way less than 500 bucks. Make it 100 and I’ll think about it.
Yeah can get a much more capable steam deck for that
If your concern is “value for dollar” you wouldn’t be buying an FPGA console in a limited edition material. Seems like a weird comparison. You can also get an R36S for like, $30 on AliExpress that will play everything from N64/PS1 and earlier.
A standard Analogue Pocket is much cheaper, this is just an option for those that really want a metal shell. Also, a metal “unfolded” shell for a GBA SP (which is I’m sure is what inspired this offering) is like $150 so it’s not even that crazy a markup.
I mean it’s fancy, but als pointless since that’s the price point of a Steam Deck, a strictly superior device.
Unless you try and put it in your pocket
Get bigger pockets.
Let me just dust off my JNCOs from '98. I knew they’d be back!
I have a steam deck, and have used a friend’s analogue pocket. They aren’t even the same category of device, and the analogue is literally the best emulation experience I’ve ever used. The screen, by itself, is a better emulation experience for GBC games than the steam decks default experience.
It is not a superior device by every metric.
and the analogue is literally the best emulation experience I’ve ever used
The Analogue Pocket doesn’t use emulation. That is literally the entire point of that device, and the reason they can charge 10 times as much as you would pay for an Anbernic device with the same form factor
