Ayaneo Pronounces a Monster of a New Gaming Handheld

Over the vacation weekend, Ayaneo announced the Next II, a Windows-based handheld gaming PC. It seems to be beefy, full-featured and, from right here, an entire lot like an overpowered, most likely very costly Steam Deck working a worse working system.

The Ayaneo Next II contains a 9-inch, up-to 165Hz OLED show with a 2400×1504 decision and a peak brightness of 1100 nits. The firm says it is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 chipset – the identical highly effective chip utilized by the Asus ROG Flow Z13 gaming laptop computer, which earned a 9/10 for its spectacular gaming efficiency in IGN’s assessment earlier this 12 months. The Next II has an 85W thermal design energy (TDP), or roughly how excessive its energy consumption ceiling is. It’s additionally acquired twin cooling followers, and a 115Wh battery – an enormous achieve over the unique Next, which had only a 47Wh battery. It additionally outdoes the 80Wh capability of the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X. Whether that interprets to longer life between costs stays to be seen, although, particularly with that 85W TDP.

Taking a web page from Valve’s ebook, Ayaneo put two contact pads on the entrance of the Next II, which the corporate writes “support customizable key mapping and intuitive gesture control.” Otherwise, the console has two Hall impact joysticks, Hall impact triggers with two-stage set off locks, 4 bumper buttons, 4 face buttons, and 4 configurable rear buttons. And there’s an 8-way D-pad that appears just like the one Microsoft makes use of on its Xbox Wireless Controller. It’s so much.

It feels like Ayaneo goes laborious with this handheld – practically every thing about it feels like the corporate is making an attempt to one-up each handheld available on the market as we speak. Ayaneo did not say when the Next II is popping out or provide pricing data, however the firm is not shy about pricing premium handhelds like, effectively, premium handhelds (See the $1,265 beginning value of the Ayaneo Next Advance).