It’s unfortunately still pretty common among discount handheld manufacturers trying to save a few cents. They can still advertise it with Bluetooth, so unless people actually watch a review that criticizes it, they are still likely to buy it none the wiser.

In addition to the obvious Game Boy, NES and SNES look great in 8x7 which looks really good on a square screen.

Yes, and yes. Plus, the bluetooth has a really bad delay, and there’s no headphone jack.

Yeah, Retro Game Corps has a great, in-depth video on this if anyone is interested. Good quality, good controls, good screen, good gimmick.

The dealbreaker for me is the legendarily awful combination of shitty, delayed bluetooth, a back-facing speaker, and no headphone jack. The most reasonable way to actually hear your games is by adding an awkward and easily losable dongle, which is not acceptable imo, especially because then you have no way to charge while you play.

Other than the unforgivable audio choices here, it looks like a really great and sleek little device.

I can’t see any of your posts from my main account - does lemmus defed with lemmy.zip?

Username checks out.

And me!

Like most worker cooperatives, it probably wouldn’t last a year.

Bleeding hearts always clot surprisingly fast when it comes to those they don’t like.

Just got my first Costco membership and looking forward to trying Kirkland beans for the first time. $15 for a 2.5 pound bag. Usually 8 o’clock is my go-to, but if Kirkland is close to comparable, I’ll probably switch.

This is called a “folk etymology”. Great story, but completely false.

It’s not their necks that extend this time!

Hung Hung Hippos

While this would be great, it’s also a little unfortunate, since the general desktop experience on Steam Deck is IIRC currently a bit below other comparable distros, and I’d hate for people to get an incomplete picture of what the Linux desktop experience can be like. Hopefully the time that’s led up to the wider release of SteamOS has been spent on getting that desktop experience up to snuff.

Gamesir seems to be vying for that crown of late - their price to feature ratio is impressive.

Edit: Yes, they’ll face the same tariff pressures - I’m just noting that 8BitDo isn’t the clear market leader the way they were 3-5 years ago.

I love these updates so much! Thanks for all of the time and effort!

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The Lemmy devs are outspoken tankies, so I’d understand why people would be reluctant to work directly with them.

That’s fair. More 9070 XTs for me!

I agree with Steve from Gamer’s Nexus - I think if AMD released the 9070 for $500 instead of matching the 5070 at $550, AMD’s market share would probably double. As it is, we’ll just have to see what the market thinks about $550.