You (don't) get what you pay for - AYANEO Kun

AYANEO is back with ANOTHER crazy handheld, but this time it's not just a crazy design, it's crazy POWER. With a huge battery, 54W TDP, and a big and bright screen, this, on paper, looks like the luxury handheld for those with deep pockets, but Plouffe isn't so sure...

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CHAPTERS
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0:00 AYANEO is back again
0:16 Unboxing
2:26 Weight, buttons, ports, and design impressions
6:25 Sponsor - Pulseway
6:52 Display test results and performance toggles
8:48 Gaming - Pacific Drive
12:13 Speaker test and thoughts on the screen size
13:32 LABS performance and battery testing
14:50 Overall thoughts and pricing
16:50 Outro

[jeji]

Ayaneo trying not to release another product instead of supporting existing ones challenge (impossible)

[calypso]

The reason I got a Steam Deck is simple, I know the support will be there for whatever I want to do with it, both from Valve themselves and third party.

[kaukospots]

this looks like a mashup of a steam deck and a 2000s ewaste bin

[prismaticc_abyss]

Its design looks like a 5€ mp3 player from the 2000s your parents got you so you stopped annoying them on long car rides

[kylev]

Not going to lie, when price was brought up, the first number that came to mind was $700. The fact that if was $400 on top of that either means that what I was expecting or what THEY were expecting was out of spec.

[NutrigrainHulk]

Seeing how the d-pad moved made my stomach hurt lol

[RocketAdminAustin]

It looks like Ayaneo used the same kind of plastic McDonalds uses in a Happy Meal toy.

[riomisterio]

Cant wait for AYANEO San, AYANEO Chan, and AYANEO Sama

[technewb]

~$600 can buy you one hell of a power bank. Hell, you can buy a 20k mAh power bank for $35 that weighs 360g. So with a Steam Deck OLED, you're still saving $550, getting a better screen, better ecosystem, more total power capacity, and your total carry weight is only 50g higher

[qfurgie]

the way my face contorted when it cut to the handheld and its early 2000’s gray plastic

[jeremyags]

Imma wait for the more powerful ayaneo senpai or the smaller ayaneo chan

[iaina]

All this competition in the handheld space is great, but each one makes me appreciate the Steamdeck that much more.
Sure, the Legion Go and Ayaneo are more powerful, but not by that much. The Steam deck is just superb at what it does for the price.

[PorlacrestaLolvide]

So for almost double the price of the Ally you get the same ammount of RAM and storage, loud fans, worse speaker placement, worse Dpad, unnecessarily high resolution, no high refresh rate, 50% more mass, less performance (?) and a case that looks like a portable DVD player from the 2000's. Got it.

[DctrGizmo]

These PC handheld gaming systems will never take off if they cost the same as full blown gaming desktop.

[Crablemet]

Whenever I see packaging like that all I can think of is how I am paying 40 bucks more just for fancy packaging I dont need

[kevinalexander]

The Kun here is not the Japanese suffix, it is a Chinese name for the fish in their mythology 鯤/鲲 (Kūn), pronounced closer to 'quen' as opposed to 'quin' in this video, but a helluva lot closer to the japanese 'kun' as some suggest

[falcie]

The name of this thing sounds like it's the younger brother.
"What are you doing, Ayaneo-Kun?"

[QsPhilosophy]

There's no way that that's how it should be pronounced

[Ametisti]

I personally am a fan of the touchpads and back buttons on the Steam Controller, I find em very useful for truck sims particularly. Plus the ease with adding extra mapping layers like hold and double press.

[MisterPikol]

how do they sustain releasing so many new products ? I don't get it