• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I mean it’s fancy, but als pointless since that’s the price point of a Steam Deck, a strictly superior device.

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      4 months ago

      I have a steam deck, and have used a friend’s analogue pocket. They aren’t even the same category of device, and the analogue is literally the best emulation experience I’ve ever used. The screen, by itself, is a better emulation experience for GBC games than the steam decks default experience.

      It is not a superior device by every metric.

      • shinratdr@lemmy.ca
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        4 months ago

        Yep, ask anyone who owns both. Nobody is playing a Gameboy game on a Steam Deck when they have an Analogue Pocket. Experience is much better, it just feels right on it.

        That being said, if that’s not an important thing to you then a Steam Deck will play Gameboy games with near perfect accuracy and no issues, as well as do a million other things. So it’s indisputably a better value.

        I would never pitch an Analogue Pocket at someone because if its the kind of thing you want, you already know about it and probably have one.

      • anivia@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        and the analogue is literally the best emulation experience I’ve ever used

        The Analogue Pocket doesn’t use emulation. That is literally the entire point of that device, and the reason they can charge 10 times as much as you would pay for an Anbernic device with the same form factor