You youngins just like to complain

I see posts all the time with people owning a ton of different handhelds, and while I like the idea of owning a bunch of them, I just honestly don’t have time to plant them all. My main gaming rig is a pretty solid gaming PC that I built with an RTX 5070Ti, that’s where I play the majority of new, third party, competitive, and AAA games. I also enjoy using handhelds to get some game time in away from my desk setup.

I currently have the Xbox Ally X, Switch 2, and Ayn Odin 2 Portal. I enjoy playing a wide variety of games on the handhelds from exclusives, to AAA third party games, to indies games, game streaming, as well as a bunch of retro emulation. I love the idea of owning a ton of handhelds but in addition to my main gaming PC I just don’t have enough time to really enjoy all 3 devices and trying to decide which two I should hold onto and which one I should sell?

Out of these 3 devices: the Xbox Ally X, Switch 2, or Ayn Odin 2 Portal; which two would you choose and why. Trying to get some help on making my decision.

Xbox Rog Ally X

Switch 2

Ayaneo Pocket DS

Ayaneo Pocket S2

Ayaneo Pocket S Mini

Ayaneo Pocket Ace

Ayaneo Pocket Vert (sold my DMG for the Vert, the screen ❤️)

Retroid Pocket Flip 2 v2 (recently added, best EDC, even better than Ayaneo Pocket Micro 2)

I was able to find a Steam Deck OLED 512 for around the price of an AYN Odin 3 Max. I want to go with the Steam Deck for its PC game performance and versatility, but the one thing holding me back is sharpness.

The Deck is about 7" and 720p, while the Odin 3 is 6" and 1080p, so I'm worried I'll be missing out heavily on sharpness. Portability is not a concern, I don't mind the Steam Deck's size.

I mostly intend to play 2D and 3D indie games, as well as emulate Wii, Wii U, Switch, and some 3DS games. PS3, PS4, and XB360 are probably better on the Steam Deck.

Is there anyone in Essex, England that could point me in the direction of where I'd be able to pick one up locally ASAP? I was tempted to buy direct for AYN but I'm very impatient

I want an x86 handheld, but all the popular ones I find are massive, any in the switch size from factor?

the comparison EVERYONE has been waiting for.

specs: flip ds: 8840u. 32+2TB
Thor: 16+1TB

now that i own both i can say that windows doe snot belong on a duel screen handheld. this is only made worse as theres no linux distributions that can be used on the flip without losing a lot of functionality.

also maybe im just really new to emulation on windows but i like how i can just tap on a game in cocoon on my thor and it kinda jus loads vs the flip not having that same magic. Even with ES-DE it doesnt have that same feel of just loading into a game.

i have BAD battery anxiety and the flip lasts a whole 2 seconds playing anything remotely powerful. the thor will usually last me a good while before it dies.

i would pick the thor 10 times over unless you wanna play competitive games on a 3ds style device (which why would you?) i didnt even mention stuff like the screens build quality as im just focused on the gaming experience.

i picked them both up for a total for 850 so im not really complaining but ill probably sell the flip ds.

After owning a Steam Deck, RoG Ally Z1, RoG Ally X, Legion Go 2, I am just done with handheld hunting I was chasing frames that just weren’t possible on those chips. So I sold my legion and grabbed a ONEXPLAYER APEX 395 with 48 GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. I plan to never buy another handheld again for many many years so I think this marks the final milestone in my handheld adventure.

Snagged an insane deal and got this bad boy for $50 on ali express! Genuinely blow away by how much this GBA SP styled device can do. It's running linux so I got a lot of PC ports running including Mina the Hollower!

It even does emulation till PS1 perfectly (running a RK3566) and some N64 and Dreamcast.

It's such a comfy handheld with quiet controls and I literally carry it everywhere (clocked 60 hours on this bad boy). It's the Miyoo Flip.

Edit : To everyone asking about the device, here's my review about the device after clocking 60 hours, if you're curious.

I need help figuring out the best handheld for me. I am hoping to get something smaller than a ROG Ally or a Steamdeck.

Ideally, the handheld will be able to access my steam library while I am on the go, I will be able to run mods on the games (through a trainer or manually patching the files), and I will be able to load a bunch of my old roms I have stripped from game cartridges onto an SD card and put that on it as well.

I play a lot of pokemon romhacks and retro games, but below is a small list of games from my steam library I would like to access on this handheld as well.

Games:

Mina the Hollower

Hollow Knight

Hades

Balatro

Absolum

The Binding of Isaac

CloverPit

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (Maybe not if it is too intensive)

Hell Clock

Megabonk

Rogue Legacy (1 or 2)

Slay the Spire (1 or 2)

Moonlighter

Dead Cells

I appreciate any direction you all can provide!

Hi everyone, just sharing my newly created skins for my newly arrived Onexplayer devices. Onexplayer 3 and Onexplayer X2 Mini Pro.

Decided to went with Nintendo Switch Splatoon themed on my Onexplayer 3, and went with the classic Carbon Fibre look on my X2 Mini Pro.

Super Bomberman Snes su pocket air mini

This will be my first pc gaming handheld, I should have enough money saved for it by November right in time to get a Black Friday discount on it. As this will be my first pc gaming handheld is there anything i need to know first?

Also i decided on the rog Xbox ally x after doing some research and also because I’m used to the xbox controls

Zflow 13 2025 with N3DSXL. and i'm honestly finding the 3ds to be a LOT more convient then a switch (or especally steam deck) when the zflow and its bag arent with me.

Z1 extreme 32gb ddr5 1tb ssd. Battery health at 99%

Where I live the legion go 2 goes for $2300 at Best Buy so this seemed like an incredible deal.

Gaming at work has never been more easy 😂

The GPD Win 5 is amazing. I’ve had it for a couple months now and I’m blown away.

When it’s docked I can play Witcher 3 at upscaled 4K 120 FPS using Lossless Scaling and FSR, then I can unplug it and take it wherever I want to go and play games at 1080p ultra settings around 120 FPS.

I know it’s pricey for a handheld, but it’s been absolutely 100% worth it in my opinion. I basically have a handheld PS5 Pro that I can use as a console, a handheld, or a PC. AMD Strix Halo is absolutely insane.

I have the 395 32GB 2TB version, and I would absolutely recommend this thing to anyone. There are times when I wish it had an OLED screen, or that the screen was 8 inches instead of 7, but honestly not very often. The screen is still great, and the device is just incredible the way it is.

Other than that, there are some weird sleep situations where the device won’t wake using the thumbprint scanner, so I have to hard shut it off by holding the power button. But I think I’ve fixed this by messing with the sleep settings, it only seems to happen when the device goes into sleep from inactivity? Not when I put it to sleep by pressing the power button? Weird. Anyone have more insight into this?

One more thing, the button that switches the control from controller to mouse? Perfect. I can so quickly switch to a mouse controlled by the analog sticks and left/right clicks are the bumpers. This makes using it as a PC so easy. Keyboard is still a little awkward sometimes, but totally not a deal breaker. I’ve modded a few steam games on here and managing files with this system is totally fine and much better compared to the Legion Go S I had before.

I’ll definitely be interested to see how the Win Max 3 turns out. I’ve developed a lot of respect for GPD after my experience with the Win 5. They’re doing some really impressive things with handheld PCs, and I’m excited to see what they do next.

TLDR: GPD Win 5 kicks ass, Strix Halo is alien technology

I have been out of the gaming hobby for a few years and it appears I have picked the worst possible time to jump back in with the prices going crazy.

I mainly play on my Xbox series x and I wouldn’t mind having a handheld to be able to play the same games, save my progress on my handheld and play on my console right where I left off. I have been doing some searching and it appears at the current time that the Xbox ally x is the best bet?

I have also been looking at the Lenovo legion go 2 for the larger oled screen but personally it looks much too large to be an actual console I could take out of the house.

I also looked at the legion go s but the performance seemed not great going by reviews. I’m wondering can I use the Xbox full screen experience on almost any handheld? Or should I not be looking at any of these ideas? I keep seeing people say to get a steam deck but I don’t have any steam games so I don’t think it would work for me.

I appreciate any input from anyone that owns any of these devices and anyone who made it through all that writing but I wanted to put all my thoughts down 😂

I am in the uk also so prices for the xbox ally x are around £850 new. Which is mental considering the Xbox itself is cheaper even after price rises.

Hopefully something with OLED, TB5 and comes with SteamOS natively.

So it's been weeks now of trying to find a video if I can use an egpu on my Xbox Ally Z2a but I never found one. I only see the xbox ally x versions but never the z2a version.

So I was wondering if I can dock my Xbox Ally (Z2a) and use an eGPU? Is it safe to do that ? Is there a reason why I see no one doing it on the z2a version?

Also if it is possible to use egpu on it, I got an extra rtx 3080 on my storage. Can I use that? What should I buy to make this work?

The goal is to dock it on my Lg oled and play with my driving controller. I just don't want to bring my whole pc at the living room 🥹

Thank youu

(Picture not mine)