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TL;DR AYANEO held a surprise sharing session to demonstrate compatibility on the Pocket AIR Mini.
The company showcased a range of GameCube, PS2, and Saturn games running at full speed.
The Pocket AIR Mini will be available mid-October, starting at $70.
AYANEO’s first true budget handheld, the Pocket AIR Mini, is mostly noteworthy because of its $70 starting price, but today the company gave gamers a whole new reason to get excited. Not only will it be cheap, it will play games that many devices in its price range couldn’t even dream of running.
In a surprise sharing session today, the company showcased game compatibility with demanding systems like the GameCube, PS2, and SEGA Saturn. These systems are generally considered beyond the reach of sub-$100 Android gaming handhelds, and some devices in the $150-$200 range struggle to run them at full speed.
Final Fantasy X, God of War II, Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Dead Space, and more are listed as playable.
Considering the Pocket AIR Mini packs a modest MediaTek G90T and 2/3GB of RAM, conventional wisdom would say that the console would top off around PSX and N64, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. AYANEO showed a host of games running live on stream, but here are the slides listing games the Pocket AIR Mini can run. Some of the text is in Chinese, but you can infer the game by looking at the image.
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Importantly, the images above also detail which games are playable on the cheaper 2GB version, which is the vast majority of the list. It includes PS2 games like God of War II, Dragon Quest VIII, Final Fantasy X, and Kingdom Hearts II. On the GameCube side, it lists Wind Waker, Super Mario Sunshine, Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, and Twilight Princess.
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