AYANEO's High-end Pocket S Android Handheld Now Available To Pre-Order

ive seen and used enough dpads and buttons to know that those are trash. 😑

@-wc- What are your favorite d pads?

@Poodlestargenerica

SNES, Saturn, and psx are the best dpads I've had alot of experience with. these are dpads that i start playing and never "think about" the function or form of the dpad again the entire time. 👍

honorable mention to the snk style micro switch stick which is not a dpad but is a great 8 way digital control device. and the ps2 which is the only analog dpad i know about, and works great as well.

as a rule of thumb (har har,) controllers with the dpad in the "secondary position" always fail in the dpad design department. im my opinion, a dpad only works in primary position, or perhaps no one has found the right angle and design for one in secondary position.

alright well anyway thanks for asking 😂 how about yourself, same question? ✌️

I like small rocky click ones, like the sp, dsi, and 3ds. They feel more intuitive to me, almost like a joystick. The vita is pretty good too, but that's more of a hybrid. I grew up playing on an snes, but it broke so long ago now. I'm not fussed about position as long as the controller doesn't make my hand hurt. The dpad on this thing doesn't look like anything I've seen before though, very odd.

@Poodlestargenerica I was just going to say that the clicky dpad on the DSi was one of my favorites. I also like the dpad on the Wii U Pro controller a lot.

Android is kind of suck for emulator, it's better if ayaneo have their own os for these machine, like steam os for steam deck and analogue os/openfpga for analogue pocket.

I really like that analogue pocket start-up time is just 2-3 second.

I wish phones still had 16:9 screens, instead of all these stupid skinny arbitrary aspect ratios. That alone makes this device (and AYN etc devices) so much better for gaming.
If this allowed 4g/5g cellular it would be killer.
Now it’s back to the old decision: make due with a controller and a powerful phone with ***** screen, or buy this and a cheap phone and have to carry around two separate devices?

Eww why pay all that to emulate on Android.. i thought this was a steam deck and switch competitor but again they are very niche devices