THIS is BETTER than the Nintendo Switch & Steam Deck?! 

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Thanks dawg, this is actually amazing and I appreciate the free items

Dude I just literally seen this on Facebook yesterday! 😅

Got my order in! looking forward to trying it to see what its like! will use your code if I decide to purchase in the future! Thanks!

The steam deck is the best and the Nintendo switch two and Nintendo switch and it is rivaling the steam deck the both are the best console

The only thing that could rival the Steam Deck is Valve making an updated model

I love my steam deck. I'm excited for the steam deck 2. Till then I will wait

@Beat_EMups1 Guys its a bot in the wild, it generaly tries to scam people by faking being someone else.

The base AyaNeo (geek) is the same configuration of the highest steam deck but just more powerful and with a better screen. The 512GB AyaNeo is $850, the 512GB Deck is $650. No where near twice the cost unless you are buying the 32GB ram, 2TB storage config.

that is the beauty of linux, helpful and supporting community.

100% with you: community is everything. Modding is everything.

Steam deck is a nice middle ground between a very user-friendly console and a more open system, in my experience. Instead of a "walled garden" it's like, a fenced garden. You can climb over the fence and install some non-steam games if you want, especially if you're just using linux flatpaks, or you can stay in steamOS if you prefer.

All we can do is hope solid state batteries development moves along faster and performs better than lithium.

It depend on the device. Making a device smaller can increase the cost but also lower space for a big battery. An hour is the extreme AAA games running at the highest settings they can run. Run them at 720p locked at 30fps and you will double or more the battery life. That's the beauty of these things compared to a Nintendo Switch. You can change your game's settings.

Agreed, and steam deck is pretty terrible for battery life. What's the point in being able to play otg if you can't even get 2 hours out of it without needing a charger! Very disappointed with that aspect of it

For a handheld, I cannot agree with you. Usually, that extra money is spent on more powerful hardware, and if you want better battery life, you have to make the battery bigger. That raises costs.

@@bruhwhy677 But the battery isn't better so it doesn't justify the cost.

i like the steam deck, but the button placements really does look like it's made by an american that needed to compensate for something, if you know what i mean "My hands are this big, so you know what that means" LMAO

@@gargoyled_drake I have small hands for a male and the Steam Deck is super comfortable. Have you actually held it? The comfort completely nullifies the weight for me.

Same reason why I like my Steam Deck. It doesn't feel that different from holding a Xbox One controller even if I'm doing a lengthy gaming session in an RPG or something like that.

@@TigerTT well, there is my problem with it already, i don't like the xbox controller feel, it's just too fat, i like holding the ps controller because it dosnt fill out my entire hand when playing, which is nice (less sweat in long sessions)

You got a steam deck? Luckkyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

You only get 64GBs on the $400 Deck haha...thats cheaper yes, but also a LOT more inconvenient

@@skylethe1st Yeah, but it's absolutely not hacking. It's literally just installing files and creating shortcuts. That's it.

@@skylethe1st oof sucks to be you

@@skylethe1stbut it isn’t

Hack is not just about trying to do something against what the manufacturer intends or wants or allows you to. Hack is a much simpler term, and getting to do things like running other launchers on SteamDeck is a hack in its purest term.

@@manojlds where are you getting this definition from? At minimum it is an exploitation when reffering to technology. You're not really exploitating with steam deck it's built for them. They way he's using it seems more in the sense of "jail breaking a console" which I don't think people should do that scares people away. In the past year I've come to the sad realization that most people are computer illiterate. Even people of my generation the so technology generation.

Shoot I hope Nintendo is looking at this taking notes

10:16 Unless you hack it? It's a pretty open platform, I don't know what you mean...

Aya uses AyaSpace which works very much the same way as SteamOS in terms of friendly UI

That’s not the point 💀 All he’s doing is saying that it’s better in terms of specs. Plus, the company literally barely started making these types of consoles not too long ago, so chances are they’re still experimenting.

Its not that they ignore it, more so that anyone that's interested in such a device isn't going to care about the price. I'm seeing the same comments on all these Aya videos on how the Steamdeck price can't be beat and while true. Anyone contemplating on a 1k+ device doesn't care about couple hundred dollar difference.

@@MegaOverclocked Fair, I guess I just got annoyed at all the other youtubers that made clickbaity tittles about how this will rival the steam deck or kill it, when in the end of the day, is an small niche product that will not get bough by a lot of people. u_u'

@@Irrelevant210 I bet most people can throw together some gaming hardware that's more powerful than PS5, but is it really better?

Not ur 2005 emo emojis

yeah that very needed, runing windows on this little thing sure has a lot o unnessary stuff going on back there, with this energy consumpition its better just stick with a notebook gamer

You noticed any drift?

Steam deck isnt up to date IMO , in one year steam deck will fall behind competitors will crap on steam deck some competitors already do . for me steam deck isnt worth it ill wait few years till the specs are better cuz some Chinese companies would make a better handheld in few months better than steam decks so it will easy fall behind

@@Yoyoboy19977 This is true. There was also an interview Between Valve and the Verge, and Valve admitted that the battery life is awful and they don't have a stable OS. 2 basic functions that a handheld needs to have.

@@jimmyfallon4237 No drift at all, if I does ever happen replacement sicks are available and easily replaced

@@Yoyoboy19977 The Deck doesn't need much more power, efficiency is the key with these handhelds. I would rather enjoy the Steam Deck now then be without it for X amount to years waiting for the perfect handheld.

If the next gen switch somewhat resembles the AYA NEO 2 😍 and has these features: Must have: 1. Nearly complete Switch Backwards compatibility 2. Significantly better processors 3. DLSS for docked 4k scaling. Plus factors: 4. Make dual-screen option when docked to port so many Wii-U games, DS/2DS/3DS titles, etc 5. Address JoyCon drift Unlikely but would be dope: 6. $ Premium edition $ with alloy unibody, no removable joycons. 7. Ability to utilize 2nd screen when docked, to port more Wii U games fully, as well as DS/2DS/3DS titles.

@@AyeYoYoYooo Yeah all of that is cool and all but Wi-Fi 6 and maybe the ability to get GeForce Now would be awesome

I like to joke that every device with a tablet-sized screen and controls either side is a "wii U clone". It's not a million miles off the truth, these devices are often inspired by the switch which was based on the few likeable parts of the wii U, so they all trace their design back to the wii u somehow...

I think it's by what you need to reach faster first like left stick and face buttons have priority since your more likely to use those the most and right stick usually just moves camera dpad is usually like menus or secondary functions in most games.

for the nintendo switch, it’s prob mainly for the co-op idea. so when 2 players use a single joycon, both have the stick on the left and buttons on the right.

You LOVE the screen? Really? or you do tolerate it? I finally got sticky deck working, so colors look a little better, but the screen is abysmal.

Offset thumbsticks are the way to go and the Neo 2's layout is just more natural.

Bro I played Hollow Knight for the first time towards the end of 2021, on ps4. I loved that game so much. The lore, the weapon upgrades, unlockable abilities, the combat, the exploration. It's a an amazing game! And in an unexpected way, it kinda prepared me mentally for my Elden Ring journey.

@@jorgegamboa5821 Ikr its my favourite game of all time cause of the lore alone. The grimm troupe was one of my favourite parts of the game. Am super excited for Silksong! :).

You're numbers are way off. The AyaNeo is about equal to the Deck's performance when both set to 15W, at 18W the AyaNeo is 10-20% better than the Deck at it's max TDP. People like to max out the Tdp but it is very overkill as you get very diminished returns above 18W. The steam deck gets much worse battery than what you are claiming. At 7W Tdp, it pulls 13W total system draw and gets a max of 3 hour battery life. Not 6 hours. "The Phawx" has a lot of good Tdp comparison videos between the Deck and the AyaNeo (and other 6800U devices).

The trackpads are essential for playing card and board games on the Deck.

@@steelcity7432 Yeah. Can do much more than use them for board games but you do have a point.

@@steelcity7432 or old fps like Stalker. Trackpads is really helpful to me.

@@rincewindthewizzard6594 I found them useful when playing both the Super Mario Galaxy games on deck lol. Having the pointer controlled by the right trackpad to collect starbits feels so intuitive and natural!

AYA has revealed a handheld with trackpads. I don't know when it will release

additional thing, i wouldn't call it hacking it when ya say adding non-steam games. Hacking it is often seen as something overly complicated. a bit of a menu juggle, but its literary the same as how ya add games in non-steam games. thereas alos a launcher called heroic, which will handle gog and epic games. by default it'll add it to steam for you.

The Steam Deck is an amazing device. I hope that's what you're thinking of buying, and not the Aya Neo whatever.

i agree i thought about getting this but when i saw the price i thought that was way to much

But I play MW2 on the Steam Deck running windows for months now and no issues.

Yeah but how much does that effect the battery life?

Enjoy the 30 min of battery

@@mynameisurl1073 yeah it will affect the battery life but I’ve heard there’s different modes, like 15 watts, 22 watts that still give you much better performance than the steam deck and but doesn’t eat much battery life, of course the Ryzen 6800u processor really helps with that too, this is one of the biggest selling points for me, some won’t want it and that’s fine but for me I don’t mind spending extra for it.

@@PANCHO15108 very weird comment, but okay 😁

@@PANCHO15108 i use my handheld plugged in so could care less about battery

What would they be supporting? Windows gets updates from Microsoft. Not sure of your point.

@@cosmicgamingunlimited They could release driver updates and software to fix issues with the aspect ratios/screen layout. It also seems like their implementation of the joysticks is strange enough to trigger CoD's anti cheat, so that could use some work.

@@cosmicgamingunlimited Lyingriotman beat me to the punch. Some GPU's start with one performance out of the box and have a completely different performance years later just because of driver updates. But not only that, since it's Valve they have influence on game development directly and there have been games that they had an hand in allowing the optimization for the deck and additionally there's a huge fan community working on programs and games to make them run better on the deck like emulation, for example. Also in hardware, going with the popular kid, often means that when you have issues you won't have a hard time finding community support when the company who releases the product ceases to support it directly, which often is an issue with high end enthusiast or more exclusive hardware from lesser known brands. Finally, the fact that Valve has control over the OS is also and advantage over Aya, since they can actually also update it and change it according to their needs as opposed to Aya who is stuck with whatever Microsoft does. In that case it's not that Aya is at fault for not supporting the device, but Valve can indeed support its device that way as well, as they have been doing and hopefully will continue to do down the line. Now, a lot of this depends on Valve's willingness to continue to support the Deck. If they stop tomorrow, a lot of these advantages would cease to exist and Valve isn't exactly known for supporting their hardware long term. I think it's different with the Deck because of how successful it became, but wouldn't be surprised if there was a rug pull. Again, Aya right now has no competition specs wise so it's not like the SD stands towering over it or anything, however there's a bunch of advantages the Deck has that can make it a better offer for many users, including myself.

This. Steam Deck value position beats basically everything on the market. The controls/ergonomics are unmatched in my opinion, paired with Steam Input there is just so much you can do with it. He talks about the trackpads not being used, but once you find out you can create custom popup guis in steam, they become invaluable for a ton of games that don't do things like weapon selection wheels natively. Talking about price too, this is almost $600 more than a Steam Deck. Yes the better hardware is good, but can't really justify spending over double on it. Once you get into the nitty gritty like Emudeck and Decky it just completes the experience. Edit: I also have to add that him saying you have to "hack" the steam deck to get games from other launchers is very disingenuous as there is zero hacking involved, Valve literally gives you an open OS to install any software you want, no different then buying a laptop and installing the software you want. And also no different than the product he is reviewing. SteamOS is just a drop in replacement for Windows, that actually has way less telemetry and bloat windows comes with. Valve will not kill your Warranty for installing Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris. They even go as far as allowing people to add their own things to the gaming mode UI. Something you would never see the likes of Nintendo, Sony or in some cases Microsoft (they do allow dev mode with emulators and other software by default)

I don't know man, I still think the Switch is the better value. Unlike the Steamdeck, the Switch comes with an OLED, lots of aftermarket customization in regards to shells and joy con shells and you get Nintendo exclusives without having to steal. And the battery life on the switch destroys what the Steamdeck has. The Switch is just well balanced. It's too good to beat.

If price is that much of a concern to you then just get a Switch...its even cheaper than what Valve produced...

@@alexmendez3681 Nintendo exclusives are MUCH more expensive than the average Steam game.

@@bruhwhy677 So? What’s your point? Are you saying that Nintendo games need to match the price of steam games? And if so, why?

The ayaneo is also way more comfortable

Someones salty

Is steam deck best option atm? Mainly for simulation ofc

Bro’s so mad someone he doesn’t know at all said “This thing is better than steam deck.” Like bro, why are you so pressed about a video. He’s just reviewing something and he might as well get the good title to get more clicks. No need to be so negative 💀

They understand gamers More? You mustn't know that they almost made mods cost cash

$800 6800u? Sign me up

Me too but they won’t

I have an Odin Pro and really love it for emulation. You can even install Windows 11 and have dual boot. I been playing Fallout 3 and Skyrim on it. The Windows gaming is a bit limited due to it working through an ARMS interpreter so anything 64bits will not run well. Trying games on it just made me want a dedicated Windows handheld more so I started looking into those 6800u ones. I went with the GPD Win 4 and it looks a whole lot like a PSP/Vita. Like the entire design is based on them but at a much better price than the Ayaneo 2.

ikr....not like you have to jailbreak it and install custom firmware or something.

Yeah I agree. When i ordered the steamdeck I was expecting to put windows on it, But SteamOS works so good that Ill deal with some Linux problems when using it docked as a normal pc

Lol no, most of my games aren’t supported on the steam deck, and I’ve heard windows runs terrible on it.

It's clearly way better and nicer build 🤷‍♂️

Steamdeck only makes sense if you owned a steam library first.

I run Windows 10 mobile on an seperate SD-Card and i dont have any issues playing on it. There are programs that can only run on Windows (including my HP-Printer driver and Software. I still can not understand why steam OS is not supporting real Printers and not only PDF). I still use SteamOS most of the times (Gaming and Desktop Mode). But from times to times i have to use Windows. There are for sure some hacks to make things run under Steam-OS (for example on Ubuntu my Printer runs nativley without installing any drivers), but my god, i just dont have the patience for this kind of things. As soon as it involves Git-hub-trickery or any other terminal inputs that are longer than two lines of code, i give up on it and use my Windows-mobile-install, where everything just works.

Not just the price but what about consumer support with that price. I already had to ship my Deck back due to hardware failure (sometimes all the CPU locked to 399 mhz) and I'm thankful I had tech support on Steam. All electronics has some hardware failure and it would really suck to be the unlucky one to have hardware failure with the Ayaneo 2 and having to ship it back to China?!

The AYN Loki Max is 700$ and is essentially the same device as the Ayaneo 2. The GPD Win 4 for the same ram and storage is 800$.

@@chamoo232 Since we know they have to make a profit on the hardware unlike Valve again it going to come down to tech support as only time will tell how much they had to cut corners on the hardware. We already know pre-built desktop they often put weak PSU in them which shorten the life of the PC. I already had hardware failure with my Deck and they shipped me a new one. Valve are in a better position to deal with hardware failures since they can make it up through software sales. I still think the Steam Deck is a much safer bet right now. It's not just the cost up front but consumer support as all electronic have some hardware failure. No doubt Valve effected companies to sell their hardware cheaper so how much will this effect the long term use of these products? We know heat is the enemy of hardware and these small handheld producing more heat in a smaller space will increase the likely of hardware failure. I would guess even the Steam Deck is more likely to have hardware failure than the Switch which runs much cooler.

@@smidlee7747 Yes some companies are definitely in better position for support. I bought an Nvidia Shield Tablet like 7 years ago. After 6 months there was a recall because they found a few cases were the battery could swell and be a fire risk. I filled the form expecting to receive a prepaid shipping box to send them my tablet but what I got instead was just a brand new tablet. Turns out the software they would have us use to check if we were in the recall list also acted as a remote kill switch once we got the new tablet and went online with it. If you used the old tablet online after activating your new one it would connect to an Nvidia server and be told to brick itself. I didn't use the old tablet after I got the new one and the wi-fi was turned off so my old one never got bricked. I eventually replaced the battery in it and still used it as an offline only tablet to watch movies and stuff like that. But ya Nvidia didn't go through the trouble of collecting the recalled tablets and changing the batteries. They just shipped replacement tablets entirely.

@@chamoo232 Also noticed the GPD Win 4 is only $800 if you buy now. Ayaneo 2 is the same way, you must buy now before the device is released or you pay more later. I know when it comes to software many kickstarters end up being abandonware. I've only saw one person reply who had an older Ayaneo over a year old the heat has started cracking the case. He said after the company moves on the newer devices they stop supporting their older devices. That's just one person not enough to go on. When I pay $800-$1500 for a desktop or a gaming laptop I'm expecting to get 4-5 years use out of it. Is that even going to be possible with the Steam Deck? (the Switch main failure is the joycons) What good to have hall sticks if the device starts dying due to heat after a year of use? At least Valve offers a way to get the Deck repaired in case I accidentally drop it after the year warranty is up. With these "kickstarter" units that comes out so often how much resources would they put in providing services after a year? There is good reason why these devices are cheaper if you buy right now before they are released.

They want you to buy ps5 lmfao

Can't take you seriously if you can't describe the genre and just list out names.

And AYN is making their own 6800u device as well. The Loki Max. Very similar to the Ayaneo 2 but 300$ cheaper.

The AYA Neo will never be affordable unless AYA finds a way to cover the costs of lowering the price. Valve loses a lot of money selling the Steam Deck

do they really require a keyboard, or is it that they only listen to keyboard input? the steamdeck input configuration is very good, so you can get good gamepad controls even from some very stubborn KB/M only games. button mapping, mouse emulation, layered control schemes, custom "item" wheels, etc. make it possible to map just about anything to the controls. i set up the entire alphabet in touchpad controls for a game because it used to have issues detecting the virtual keyboard. in another game where i use touchpads for mouse input i set layer shift buttons to switch to a quick ship switching wheel or a location wheel on the touchpads. for an mmorpg you can map wheels to entire hotbars for quick access to skills and items, even if the game doesn't have any kind of controller support.

@@Marvin_R That is something I would consider, but if I had needed to buy another gamepad to map the controls, that defeats the purpose of the handheld aspect. The one big benefit to the Steamdeck I would say is that it can be plugged into a monitor or tv, so at times when Im at a hotel, I can set that up to play my Steam games, but I usually don't sit still when booked in, I need to go out more than I stay in, and the usefulness and expense of the steamdeck is outweighed by how often I would be using it. With the Switch, the games are set up already for dock mode or handheld. The expense is worth the time I can spend on it, as I travel quite a bit and I am away from home often. So its on the road or in a plane when I get the chance to play a game, as opposed to sitting in.

@makoent2231 the mapping can be done to the built in gamepad buttons, no need for a separate controller.

@@Marvin_R Oh I thought you meant a different controller. My mistake. That would actually be pretty handy.