TL;DR The AYANEO Pocket VERT is now available for pre-order, starting at $269.
It’s a luxurious Android-powered Game Boy with hidden touchpads on the front.
Powered by a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, it can emulate almost everything.
AYANEO has made a name for itself making very premium gaming handhelds, but the Pocket VERT takes things to a whole new level. It has an excessively luxurious build and enough power to emulate anything, and starting today, you can finally order one.
The Pocket VERT is now available for pre-order on Indiegogo, with early-bird pricing starting at $269. The campaign faced a few delays in getting approved by the Indiegogo team, which implemented new checks as part of its divisive new platform.
The Pocket VERT is the most luxurious take on the Game Boy yet.
As for specs, it’s powered by a Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1, which offers enough power to emulate every retro console, as well as more modern consoles like the GameCube and PS2. It can likely run Switch games too, but there will be serious compromises playing on such a small, square screen.
Speaking of the screen, it appears to be the same high-density 3.5-inch LCD panel found on the FPGA Analogue Pocket. The 1600 x 1440 resolution offers perfect 10x upscaling for Game Boy games, which are sure to look phenomenal with the right shaders on this device.
The body of the Pocket VERT features a CNC metal finish, with “diamond-cut” shoulder buttons, a clear D-pad, unmarked face buttons, various function buttons, and a MagicSwitch scroll wheel. That scroll wheel offers quick settings changes in AYANEO’s custom software.
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