Ayn is retroid, both are owned by moorechip (they’ll deny it). They make the Odin if you’ve heard of that. They are slightly more “premium” than retroid, but still plagued by the same quality control issues and sourcing of discounted, second-hand parts.
There’s already controversy with this one because I’m pretty sure a battery exploded recently, and people are waiting for the hinge to break (there was a post about one already but Ayn is insisting it’s mold marks in a dumb place). Regardless, they couldn’t get it right with the flip or flip 2 so I wouldn’t want to be a beta tester with this one.
Great way to play dual screen games if you don’t care about longevity of the device and you’ve got $500 lying around that you wanna waste instead of spending on a steam deck
Edit: apparently op’s link literally shows the hinge issues on the Thor, they’re confirmed again this time around, what a shocker
That one battery explosion is Retroid, so it’s like blaming Apple for using Samsung parts in their phones. And I think I’ve only seen one Thor hinge issue so far, and AYN replaced it. The Anbernic ones barely plays DS, with only an abandoned emulator, and maybe like two 3DS games, if you can even call it “playable”.
Anbernic makes one now too. Never heard of AYN before
Ayn is retroid, both are owned by moorechip (they’ll deny it). They make the Odin if you’ve heard of that. They are slightly more “premium” than retroid, but still plagued by the same quality control issues and sourcing of discounted, second-hand parts.
There’s already controversy with this one because I’m pretty sure a battery exploded recently, and people are waiting for the hinge to break (there was a post about one already but Ayn is insisting it’s mold marks in a dumb place). Regardless, they couldn’t get it right with the flip or flip 2 so I wouldn’t want to be a beta tester with this one.
Great way to play dual screen games if you don’t care about longevity of the device and you’ve got $500 lying around that you wanna waste instead of spending on a steam deck
Edit: apparently op’s link literally shows the hinge issues on the Thor, they’re confirmed again this time around, what a shocker
That one battery explosion is Retroid, so it’s like blaming Apple for using Samsung parts in their phones. And I think I’ve only seen one Thor hinge issue so far, and AYN replaced it. The Anbernic ones barely plays DS, with only an abandoned emulator, and maybe like two 3DS games, if you can even call it “playable”.
Ayaneo also makes a few, but they’re a lot chonkier and high-specced (and x86)