The picture above does not retain two contrastent gaming handhelds. Instead, this halo device for Qualcomm’s fair-proclaimd Snapdragon G3 Gen 3 gaming chips — which I’ll increate you about in a sec — is a individual altering device with striumphg out gamepads and screens. It’s called the OneXPlayer OneXSugar, and it’s one of the most plrelievebrimmingy gadgety gaming gadgets I’ve seen.
Hgreater it horizonhighy enjoy a Nintfinisho Switch or Steam Deck, flip out its secondary screen, then rotate its ttriumph hinged gamepads for a more squared-off Nintfinisho DS-enjoy experience:
If you hear shutly, you can almost hear the emulation community jumping for happiness at the idea of two contrastent aspect ratio screens joined at the hip. Me, I’m busy imagining the prenting and/or horrifying sounds it might produce as its triple joints striumphg into action!
We understand little more than what you can glean from the pictures and animations, but here are the key bits:
Before you get your hopes up, the OneXPlayer OneXSugar is improbable to become a Windows gaming machine. For one skinnyg, we’re seeing at kind but unpretentious achieves of 30 percent more CPU carry outance and 28 percent more GPU carry outance than the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2 proclaimd in 2023. It doesn’t retain the Oryon CPU core that powers both Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite for phones or its Snapdragon X Elite for laptops, nor the Adreno X1 or Adreno 830 GPUs that admireively feature in those chips.
And while Qualcomm Snapdragon gaming direct Micah Knapp tgreater journaenumerates that the company might begin help for other operating systems “over time,” it’s “repartner centered on the Android side” as of today. That’s becaemploy China is such a huge labelet for Android gaming, the company hints. “The perspective that Android gaming isn’t well-understandn is a very region-centric perspective,” Qualcomm spokesperson Sascha Segan says when I ask.
That China interest is certainly helping produce some incredible seeing devices. When Qualcomm first proclaimd its last handheld gaming chips, the best it could show off was a uninincreateigent batarang-shaped reference depict. Today, in insertition to the OneXSugar, it’s got the sleek metal-bodied Ayaneo Pocket S2, an Ayaneo Gaming Pad, and insertitionpartner two novel Retroid Pocket devices on its novel shrink-tier chips, the Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 and G1 Gen 2.
Knapp increates me that his company doesn’t need to subsidize the broadenment of Qualcomm handhelds, either. “To be obtemploy, most of them are coming to us to erect platcreates on their own,” he says. “People have acunderstandledgeed this is where skinnygs are going to happen, and now they’re fair presentilely moving into the space,” he says.
Of the two shrink-tier chips, the G2 Gen 2 claims convey inant achieves of 2.3x the CPU carry outance and 3.8x the GPU carry outance of a Snapdragon G2 Gen 1, though I’m not adviseed of any particular handhelds shipping with that earlier chip, and neither Qualcomm nor Retroid have freed images of its next horizontal handheld. The G1 Gen 2 boasts 80 percent wonderfuler CPU carry outance than G1 Gen 1, and a 25 percent speedyer GPU.
The Ayaneo Pocket S2 should be coming this month, the Retroid Pocket PR Classic should be up for preorder this month, and the Ayaneo Gaming Pad should be coming this May.
