cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40091154
[…] the Retroid Pocket Classic has been introduced. This will mark the first vertical handheld that Retroid has released since the original Pocket back in 2020.
Coming as little surprise, Retroid didn’t share anything regarding specs, but it did share all seven colors that the Classic will come in. Front and center is yellow, featuring a deep purple D-pad, and while the X+Y buttons match the rest of the shell, the A+B buttons are green and red, respectively.
As for the rest of the colors, we’ll have a DMG colorway, transparent purple, pink, teal, lime green, and what appears to be a lighter version of what the DMG has. From there, the Pocket Classic sports a front-firing speaker, to go along with the Start, Select, and Menu buttons. Curiously enough, none of those three buttons are actually centered, and we don’t have any idea why this would be the case.
So many of these emulation handhelds come out EVERY few months, from so many different companies, it's really hard getting a jumping off point for what you should even buy.
Regardless of what form factor, or color variation you like, someone has made that exact same handheld. In fact, multiple of them exist. And lets be honest, how many of these need to exist, and be updated, and performance enhanced, to play old retro games from 30 years ago?
Odds are, you HAVE one of these. Maybe from 4 years ago. Maybe recently released. Maybe you modded an original model GBA to be backlit and paired it with an everdrive.
My innitial reaction to these releases is always the same. Excitement for about 3 seconds until I realize I have a Miyoo Mini Plus. Which does just fine for me.
Who is buying every single release that keeps the market THIS competitive???
That's because unless you want to emulate PS2 games, the Miyoo Mini Plus is still the best handheld emulator.
I have Anbernics, Retroid, and nothing is as good as the Miyoo.