Have you ever held a switch? Its long, flat and the controllers suck. Awful dpad and bad sticks.

Its almost comical, for a small stick the 3ds stick is better than any joycon stick.

And also, internal storage being only 32 GB, and cart games being downloaded in full to the system.

The switch is a mess. At least the games emulate well.

That’s not even going into the online ransom shit.

And the dock sucks too. Would it have killed Nintendo to add like 2 more USB ports and an Ethernet port.

And not related but powera can eat shit

  • grrgyle
    2·
    2 months ago

    1. Smaller the better, not wide like a Switch or Stream Deck.

    2. Under 200 CAD, but flexible for the right device

    3. Limited 3D but no more. Like FX chip level

    4. Linux? Hopefully I understood the question

    Thanks for taking this time!

    • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
      3·
      2 months ago

      OK, I have some ideas.

      For all of SNES and some other stuff as a bonus the ambernic rg35xxh seems like it’d be a good fit. Tho it is horizontal. About 80-90 USD I think

      The rg35xx is similar but vertical with no sticks

      For something that’s like 40 USD ish there’s the powkiddy v90.

      Tho for 200 cad that’s like mid range tier. But most powerful ones are landscape.

      A good yt channel is retro game corps.

      My personal machine is the retroid pocket 4 pro. An android handheld that is very powerful, can emulate up to some switch

      • grrgyle
        1·
        2 months ago

        Oh the different retroid pockets look really cool. Thanks, you’ve given me a lot to dig in to!

        • sleepybisexual@beehaw.orgOP
          2·
          2 months ago

          Didn’t think you’d like a retroid cos they run android but they are extremely good.

          The 4 pro is good, it runs a lot well, up to 2d switch games.

          I heard horror stories about the 3 and flip tho.

          Also powkiddy stuff is bad at mid range, only consider them for very cheap,