Ayaneo Announces a Monster of a New Gaming Handheld

Over the vacation weekend, Ayaneo announced the Next II, a Windows-based handheld gaming PC. It looks beefy, full-featured and, from here, a full batch similar an overpowered, astir apt very costly Steam Deck moving a worse operating system.

The Ayaneo Next II features a 9-inch, up-to 165Hz OLED show with a 2400x1504 solution and a highest brightness of 1100 nits. The institution says it's powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset – the aforesaid almighty spot utilized by the Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop, which earned a 9/10 for its awesome gaming show successful IGN's reappraisal earlier this year. The Next II has an 85W thermal plan powerfulness (TDP), oregon astir however precocious its powerfulness depletion ceiling is. It's besides got dual cooling fans, and a 115Wh artillery – a immense summation implicit the archetypal Next, which had conscionable a 47Wh battery. It besides outdoes the 80Wh capableness of the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. Whether that translates to longer beingness betwixt charges remains to beryllium seen, though, particularly with that 85W TDP.

Taking a leafage from Valve's book, Ayaneo enactment 2 interaction pads connected the beforehand of the Next II, which the institution writes "support customizable cardinal mapping and intuitive motion control." Otherwise, the console has 2 Hall effect joysticks, Hall effect triggers with two-stage trigger locks, 4 bumper buttons, 4 look buttons, and 4 configurable rear buttons. And there's an 8-way D-pad that looks akin to the 1 Microsoft uses connected its Xbox Wireless Controller. It's a lot.

It sounds similar Ayaneo is going hard with this handheld – astir everything astir it sounds similar the institution is trying to one-up each handheld connected the marketplace today. Ayaneo didn't accidental erstwhile the Next II is coming retired oregon connection pricing information, but the institution isn't shy astir pricing premium handhelds like, well, premium handhelds (See the $1,265 starting terms of the Ayaneo Next Advance).