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So we can say at this point that they just effectively bumped the price of the Pocket up to $250 since they're never making any more of the regular Pocket right.
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Alan_Shore posted:My Anbernic Arc is on its way! Very excited about this one! Same, can’t wait for mine to arrive! Azubah posted:More Pocket colors: Oh, I do like that blue, but have no absolutely no need for one.
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Nov 15, 2023 17:28
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Azubah posted:More Pocket colors: This is just starting to come across as greedy at this point.
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Nov 15, 2023 17:30
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otter posted:This is just starting to come across as greedy at this point. You mean how the price went up? Because im happy to see more available for people who want one. I've still got my launch black one and I don't collect colors so it seems fine to me other than the price.
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Nov 15, 2023 17:53
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Matt Zerella posted:Because im happy to see more available for people who want one. They aren't. "Oh, it's sold out already", you say as you refresh the page two minutes after the sale starts. Very limited sales where one person legit buys it for themselves, and five other purchases go for scalpers who'll put them up at double the price shortly after. And this is by design. They are doing it on purpose.
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Nov 15, 2023 17:59
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Yeah this isn't increased availability, it's just engineering a shortage through limited runs. Most of which are going to be bought by people who already have one. They could be just making more normal Pockets but now you can't even place an order for one and have it fulfilled when there's stock like you could before, functionally the regular Pocket is discontinued in favour of occasional runs of these more expensive limited models.
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Nov 15, 2023 18:05
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Saoshyant posted:They aren't. "Oh, it's sold out already", you say as you refresh the page two minutes after the sale starts. The red clear was available for like an hour after it went live last time. Flippers will flip, there's nothing anyone can do about this but im glad to see more stock available and people to get another shot at one. I still don't see how it's greedy on Analogues side? I also hate how it seems like im defending them here 
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Nov 15, 2023 18:06
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It’s just that kind of psychologically exploitative FOMO marketing approach that a whole lot of companies use these days. LIMITED RUN BUY NOW every few months with a new variant, etc. It’s not a uniquely lovely thing IMO, but it is a thing I’m just kind of tired of seeing all the time .
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Nov 15, 2023 18:17
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Are people posting photos of their complete set of Pockets on Reddit like they did with all the Retroid colours yet?
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Vegastar posted:It’s just that kind of psychologically exploitative FOMO marketing approach that a whole lot of companies use these days. LIMITED RUN BUY NOW every few months with a new variant, etc. Yeah now this I get and agree with but personally I've always seen AP's as limited run goods so I ignore the marketing. njsykora posted:Are people posting photos of their complete set of Pockets on Reddit like they did with all the Retroid colours yet? Yes, of course they are and it's dumb as poo poo. Ive got a launch black AP and I love it but ive never seen any of these new runs and went "drat, I need another one". But hey, ya gotta CONSUME. Matt Zerella fucked around with this message at 19:17 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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Nov 15, 2023 19:14
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Trying to decide between a POWKIDDY RGB30 and the Retroid Pocket 2S. The 2S seems superior in every way, except for the really nice screen on the RGB30 (and its a bit cheaper). If I could play PS2 and Dolphin games on the 2S reliably I'd probably lean that way, but it seems a lot of games require hacks to be playable (it's always hard to judge actual performance from impressions). So if I'd be mostly sticking to PS1 and below, the power advantage of the 2S wouldn't matter that much.
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Nov 15, 2023 20:29
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Capitalism sucks and also lol they chose a ton of vintage Gameboy colors but they color matched the controls AND ignored the best color, teal. Stupid on all counts.
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Rinkles posted:Trying to decide between a POWKIDDY RGB30 and the Retroid Pocket 2S. The 2S seems superior in every way, except for the really nice screen on the RGB30 (and its a bit cheaper). I'm pretty out of the loop, how does the 3/3+ compare to the others?
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Rinkles posted:Trying to decide between a POWKIDDY RGB30 and the Retroid Pocket 2S. The 2S seems superior in every way, except for the really nice screen on the RGB30 (and its a bit cheaper). Get the RGB30 if you care about big screenin SNES, GBs, Pico, or vertical arcade games. PSX and other 4:3s also look awesome and are the same size as the RP2S iirc. If overall finish and hall sticks matter to you, go for the RP2S.
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womb with a view posted:I'm pretty out of the loop, how does the 3/3+ compare to the others? The 2S/3+/Flip are all much more powerful than the 3, which is the same as the 2+. It's confusing, yes, but it helps that the 3 and 2+ aren't sold anymore so right now they only sell 3 different handhelds (2S, 3+, Flip) of roughly equal power that differ in form factor. Assepoester fucked around with this message at 21:11 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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njsykora posted:Yeah this isn't increased availability, it's just engineering a shortage through limited runs. Most of which are going to be bought by people who already have one. They could be just making more normal Pockets but now you can't even place an order for one and have it fulfilled when there's stock like you could before, functionally the regular Pocket is discontinued in favour of occasional runs of these more expensive limited models. It's this. All of these companies are manufacturing more "shortage" than they are product. Not to mention the predatory add ons. gently caress Route, period point blank. Stop trying to sell me absolutely nothing for an add-on. I get that there is a limited market for physical copies of some games these days. Not everyone is going to shell out $29 for a copy of Lil Gator Game, so Super Rare does a run and it's $40 and there are only 4,000 copies. Of course, I left it in my cart and now there's just the ~320 remaining copies of the steelbook edition for $60. However, there is a HUGE market for a gameboy with a really nice screen that you can plug into the tv through hdmi. There's no reason to "super special edition" it to death except that they are catering to the bots and flippers. Argh, it pisses me off. I need to go mellow out for a minute. that being said, I bought a clear red pocket and i already have my black original one. Im a sucker too. I would have loved to get the glow in the dark one instead, but yeah that was a fiasco 10 seconds after release.
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Rinkles posted:Trying to decide between a POWKIDDY RGB30 and the Retroid Pocket 2S. The 2S seems superior in every way, except for the really nice screen on the RGB30 (and its a bit cheaper). otter posted:However, there is a HUGE market for a gameboy with a really nice screen that you can plug into the tv through hdmi. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cesh5OAL4uk Assepoester fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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apparently retroid pockets have gyro controls. i've never heard that brought up before.
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The idea of being able to use an FPGA board as the core of effectively a brand new Game Boy Colour is cooler than anything Analogue have done in a long time tbh.
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Rinkles posted:apparently retroid pockets have gyro controls. i've never heard that brought up before.
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I picked up both of the evercade super pockets for my son and myself along with a couple of carts that had games I'm interested in. I think the 2.8" screen is pushing it for my old man eyes. It's a nice looking ips screen but it's just too damned small. Might have the wife get me an evercade exp for Christmas. They are probably too small overall to play comfortably for long periods of time as well - although I murdered an hour playing Bubble Bobble with no complaints. Haven't tried anything with the shoulder buttons though.
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I don't have a problem with Analogue releasing a bunch of limited colors, but at least have the regular colors readily available in some capacity to satisfy gamers who couldn't care less about a different color. I picked up an Analogue Pocket Transparent Purple during the last wave and was a bit disappointed by its color, I think I like the Indigo or Silver more. The red one doesn't appear to match my GBA: SP's shade of red. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Nov 15, 2023 |
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mem posted:I picked up both of the evercade super pockets for my son and myself along with a couple of carts that had games I'm interested in. I think the 2.8" screen is pushing it for my old man eyes. It's a nice looking ips screen but it's just too damned small. Might have the wife get me an evercade exp for Christmas.
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Rinkles posted:wait, Ayaneo is actually doing this? Excited for those set up boxes.
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Corb3t posted:I don't have a problem with Analogue releasing a bunch of limited colors, but at least have the regular colors readily available in some capacity to satisfy gamers who couldn't care less about a different color. I almost feel like they have an adversarial view of their customers. It comes across like, "Yeah, we're going to see you this and you're going to buy it because you're a little bitch and we own you. Yeah, now tell me you like it!" I'm sure there are some people who are into that. Let analogue be your findom or whatever (I realized how much I don't miss twitter just now) As far as I can tell, Analogue has the last of my money they will be getting (2 pockets and a Duo). I feel like I'd rather spend money on other things. Now let me tell you what kind of a shitheap Polymega / Playmaji are...
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I've said it in this thread before but if I could just go on Analogue's site and buy a thing, I'd probably have impulse bought multiple devices from them at this point. But it's always no, this thing we just launched isn't shipping for a year. Or no, this thing we launched 6 months ago is discontinued now.
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njsykora posted:I've said it in this thread before but if I could just go on Analogue's site and buy a thing, I'd probably have impulse bought multiple devices from them at this point. But it's always no, this thing we just launched isn't shipping for a year. Or no, this thing we launched 6 months ago is discontinued now. Yeah, this is kind of how I feel about them. I've thought several times about buying a Pocket, but the combination of price point plus not being able to actually just buy one and get it within a reasonable timeframe is too much for me to bite the bullet.
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The_White_Crane posted:Yeah, this is kind of how I feel about them. I've thought several times about buying a Pocket, but the combination of price point plus not being able to actually just buy one and get it within a reasonable timeframe is too much for me to bite the bullet. This is why we should just all buy our devices from Marcus. Always fair prices, always delivers timely.
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lol, on a retroid (or maybe other devces too) you can apparently output the second screen of a DS game via hdmi?
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If you were going to give a retro gaming handheld to a teen with basically 0 computer knowledge, do you all think the linux or Andorid systems are easier to navigate? I've got a spare Rg351v and a spare retroid pocket 2+ and I'm thinking about giving one to my neice who vaguely likes video games but is not very computer savvy. I'd obviously pre-setup everything.
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Linux, 100%. No home screen, no app store, you turn it on and the very first thing you see is a nice, big select screen of systems. You hit the a button once, you get a list of games. You hit the a button again, you're playing. No loving around
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You can do that in android too. Just setup Dig and set Dig as the default launcher. My plans of putting together some ultra boutique gaming consoles for the holidays got dashed because the raspberry pi 5 boards are out of stock. I might do it as a new years thing. Hand painted cases, customized interface, curated rom selection. Like a mix tape. coconono fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Nov 16, 2023 |
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flavor.flv posted:Linux, 100%. No home screen, no app store, you turn it on and the very first thing you see is a nice, big select screen of systems. You hit the a button once, you get a list of games. You hit the a button again, you're playing. No loving around That was my thought initial thought, but then I was thinking the android systems would be more "phone-like". so I thought I'd look for opinions.
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The EmulationStation based setups are definitely easier for a neophyte to use, yeah, especially if you're using one of the setups that's done by teams of people who really put things together nicely (Amber, Jelos, etc)
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Substandard posted:That was my thought initial thought, but then I was thinking the android systems would be more "phone-like". so I thought I'd look for opinions. When we talk about Linux in here we don't mean using a command line or running a window manager, we mean a stripped down to the basics OS that runs an Emulation Station front end for emulators and nothing else, it's very much a device dedicated to doing this one thing.
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Went with a Pocket 2S. Had trouble choosing between it and the RGB30 till the end. No idea if I made the right decision. Went clear black. Might've gone with green if the button colors were different. Wanted Indigo, but apparently the white of the sticks rubs off.
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I’d go with android just because of the better sleep performance. I’d imagine kids are more used to phones/tablets where you just sit them down and walk away instead of shutting them down. I could see that running the battery out on Linux might cause file system corruption while on android I’m going to assume the OS is going to do an automatic shutdown.
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The_White_Crane posted:Yeah, this is kind of how I feel about them. I've thought several times about buying a Pocket, but the combination of price point plus not being able to actually just buy one and get it within a reasonable timeframe is too much for me to bite the bullet. Agreed. I signed up for alerts so I could get one when they restock but I want to just buy a regular one, not fight the botting crowd to buy one of a hundred limited edition copies. I’m over the product drop events that got so popular in the last few years.
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Rolo posted:lol they chose a ton of vintage Gameboy colors but they color matched the controls this is the thing that fucks me the most, they might have finally gotten my two fifty instead of me continuing to wait patiently for the miyoo flip, but no, they made the loving buttons and d-pad silver instead of black so it doesn't actually look like my childhood gameboy pocket, get the gently caress outta here
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