https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pr_V8rtzrE
A month ahead of Switch 2’s global release, we accidentally bought a real motherboard of Switch 2! We decided to reverse-engineer its NVIDIA SoC, and reveal the spces of its CPU and GPU, even head to a FIB-SEM to ensure its process node! We’d also simulate the performance on a similar PC to see how powerful is Switch 2. Stay tuned!
If anything, it makes me wonder why we don’t have more small dedicated handheld gaming devices that aren’t phones or pseudocomputers and don’t cost a bomb.
Like a £220 PSP/GBA/DS-like device with decent first-party support would be really nice for me imo
The Switch Lite is exactly this. $200 handheld that runs first party games. There are android handhelds like the Retroid pocket 5 as well.
A Steam Deck Lite would be incredible. Small, cheap, linux-based, and powerful enough to run indie games and some light 3D. I think that form factor basically needs an arm cpu though.
Yeah, I’m taking a look at the RP5 it looks quite good. I wish its GameCube Performance was better but this might be the one for me :D
If it can also play Steam games/x86 games, that would also be cracked
You can buy handhelds for like $100 that have basically every console game up to and including ps2/ds preloaded. What else would you need?
Something that can play PS2/GameCube games effortlessly
Maybe even a bit of PS3!
https://www.goretroid.com/products/retroid-pocket-4-handheld
Can play gamecube/wii games and most ps2. Ps3 you’re gonna have problems with even with a steamdeck sometimes.
Or just use a phone that’s a couple years old
Yeah, I got an S23 for $400, upgraded from a 7 year old S9
I’d say go on swappa and pick up an S21 for 125 and be ready to go…leave the S23 for doom scrollin.
Why downgrade?
There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?