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[Pemalite]

JEMC said:

Pemalite said:

Seriously considering buying the Ayaneo Flip DS over a Steamdeck or other handheld.
Might be the first handheld that will competently manage all my handheld gaming needs?

Has the horsepower to do N64, PS1, DS, 3DS, Gamecube, Dreamcast, PS2, Switch and PC.

7" 1080P 120hz top display, 3.5" Multi-touch bottom display.
Ryzen 8840u, probably a choice of 16GB or 32GB of Ram and a 512-1TB-2TB-4TB SSD as usual.

...Could sell my 3DS at current market rates to pay for one of these ironically enough.

Wait a minute. What do you mean with that? There's no way people are paying that much for a 3DS, right?

A New 3DS XL loaded with a ton of digital games can sell for over $1,000 AUD... Especially so as the online store has closed, meaning some games will never be obtainable otherwise.
Case in point: Minecraft 3DS edition was never released in physical in PAL/Australia and now the digital store is closed.

If it's a limited edition and in very good condition like my Samus Returns 3DS... Then that is an extra premium on top.

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

The price of that handheld, especially 32GB + 1TB option will be over $1000 USD easily. But the problem that I always had with buying a GPD Win 2 which also has a clam shell design is the customer support from these Chinese companies when anything goes wrong. If there are any issues or defects and such... Good Luck as it has always been a pain to get support/RMA and these companies are writing their own drivers and etc to make things work on the software side. While CPU/GPU drivers are coming from AMD, there's controller drivers, screen drivers and etc that all need to work.

If you are gonna buy one, I'd suggest waiting till all the issues have been ironed out otherwise you may be stuck with a dud trying to get customer support working.

To be fair though, I have never used any support/RMA from an overseas company, for an electronics platform in the 20+ years of my computing endeavours.
Because of Australian law, my warranty is to be dealt with the place of purchase and not the company that manufactures the product, so that definitely changes things for the better, especially if you buy from an Australian retailer.

...But we also need to remember that we are also not your normal computer muggles, so we have a higher level of understanding to fix and repair our devices.

Case in point... I have had a JXD S7800 handheld tablet since 2015, powered it on yesterday only for all data to be wiped... So a trip to the internets and an hour later with a fresh OS installed, it was happy as larry.