It’s Like A Handheld PS3! The New GPD Win 4 Emulates It All!

[@meowmeow2759]

This can replace my ps vita, switch, and my gaming laptop for when I travel in one device. Holy shit. I love it.

[@VideoMusicManiacPlace]

My thinking too.

[@AchiragChiragg]

Except for the battery life.

[@meowmeow2759]

@@AchiragChiragg i don't see an issue keeping it at 15 watts and disabling 2 of the cores.

[@SRC267]

@@meowmeow2759 or just get a power bank

[@charlesrodolf7309]

LOL no it won't replace a gaming laptop

[@blabberingblab]

Love how different the approaches are between Aya and GPD, even when specs are ostensibly the same. GPD goes for the ‘everything including the kitchen sink” handheld, while Aya really strives for a polished product. Hopefully the market is big enough for both to push forward for product generations to come.

[@CodeSerial]

You left out that GPD also aims to make the smallest device, with everything

[@acwbit2368]

@@CodeSerial GPD is also a shit company while at it aswell

[@Prodbytocile]

@@CodeSerial air 2 is supposed to be small

[@BortaMaga]

@@Prodbytocile But with significantly inferior specs

[@defaultuser9925]

@@I9IIEIIYIIEIISwoah just take it easy man

[@justanotherchannel863]

The mobile handheld is getting very competitive, the steam deck is such a good benchmark. The price and value is amazing. The GPD is really good, even adding a keyboard. Ryzen low power cpu handheld is amazing in general. The steam library on the go, how on earth can anyone compete.

[@MikeTheGamer77]

the price will keep this out of hte hands of most people interested in handheld emulation.

[@umamifan]

@@MikeTheGamer77 Not to mention the amount of people who buy these things just to play a few games on it and then have buyer's remorse and sell it off. See it pop up constantly when Mercari notifies me of a new listing for "gpd". Always in the description something about not even fully enjoying the product. Most of these folks will just go back to using a cheaper handheld, effectively downgrading.

[@tek1645]

@@umamifan I'm not sure I'd agree, this market is a niche with many willing to pay the price

[@KungPowChicken]

@@umamifan I'm in that camp. I bought a OXP Mini and played it for a couple of months before listing it for sale. The device was cool and games ran well, but I found the Steam Deck more my fit, especially with how good Valve customer service is compared to these Chinese companies.

[@Bidwellz9]

@@tek1645 they sell an ok amount of their devices, but the fact they still crowd fund for every device is a telling sign they dont sell enough to produce a product like valve can. these companies are only giving valve a leg up on SD2.

[@AngelCopout]

The form factor is really the thing driving my interest here. Though I think I'm better off waiting a few months before jumping in.

[@dm.3145]

same

[@Dr_Nick_]

As a long-time GPD user, I'm iffy about buying it because the build quality is often not as good as it appears and the availability of repalcement parts is usually pretty low after a year or so. I really like the PSP/PSV shape, but I don't want a $1300+ paperweight when something breaks and I can't fix it.

[@bipbop3121]

@@Dr_Nick_ but there's a $799 version, though paper weight is still bad. So one could stock up on parts in advance - what parts are most likely to break?

[@numberz010]

Yep, this form factor in a 6800U APU system is absolutely insane..

[@jonathan__g]

I must say that it is great to see GPD send out actual units to some KZbinrs so they can put it through the paces and see what it can actually do versus GPD cherry picking some games and showing what it can do.

[@TMGQ]

This youtuber gets a commission on sales using their link. Financial incentives almost always inject a bias.

[@pauloazuela8488]

@@TMGQ Yeah but it's far better seeing it like that and so far he isn't lying showing actual stats whether he says the results are grea doesn't really matter as long we get to see actual facts of what it can do . Because at the end of the day it's our choice , he just saves us some trouble.

[@lighthawk95]

Gotta say I really prefer when you have a black/dark background with white text. I watch during my night shift and the white is always hard on the eyes.

[@Tina.Di.Napoli]

I love it 💖 fits way better into my small hands than the steam deck. Was hoping for a steam deck mini but I think I buy just this one

[@jamesforest6771]

Great video and loved the use of the audio over the in the Switch section...great idea for stopping Nintendos stupidity with the copy write. Ordered my GPD last night.

[@kevtattoos54]

Nice bro. I'm thinking of getting this over the steam deck

[@Mr.Quinlan888]

Just backed the project. This looks amazing!

[@TAGMedia7]

Emulates everything possible! Battery life: 20 minutes!

[@RP123lolololol]

I can tell you like this device bro. I can't wait to put my hand on one of this too. Thanks for the 25% discount code on my kids windows key.

[@MohammedQ8ty]

I wish it is available now 😢 this device is the best right now.

[@Jeremy_Huggins]

Can you please show off the minimum brightness compared to the Aya devices and Steam deck? I play at night so this is probably the most important feature to me. Thanks for the good coverage as always ETA!

[@stormk-1130]

Yeah brightness its important, people usually dont care about it, until they destroy their eyes.

[@ghostlegit]

Steam deck is garbage for playing at night. The aya neo has a much better screen and higher nit brightness so I would much recommend the aya neo if ur eyes struggle.

[@brandon_nope]

@@ghostlegit What are you talking about? The Steam Deck's screen gets way dimmer and therefore easier on your eyes at night

[@ghostlegit]

@@brandon_nope dimmer isn't good for playing at night.

[@brandon_nope]

@@ghostlegit how is it not?

[@TheUpGrayed]

Woot! Just found this channel. Good stuff so far, Thanks dudes! Good luck on hitting a millie.

[@lopakak3250]

This is amazing. Can't wait to see the video with the GPD connected to an EGU.

[@15silverblade]

GPD 4 is Jaw dropping. They did it.

[@Kw1161]

I hope you have had a Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year 🎉! Great video, thanks for the information!

[@garycormack]

Can you please do modern AAA game comparison with the Steam Deck?

[@steamdeckknights8978]

Now this third on my list of top five... definitely waiting for a resale next year pretty nice performance tho

[@sergiohilario426]

What are your top 2?

[@steamdeckknights8978]

@@sergiohilario426 overall the "Steam Deck" price performance etc then the Aya Neo 2 in a close second if I wanted to spend money and go all out

[@davidagiel8130]

Finally the 6800u handhelds are beasts, steam deck can't emulate ps3

[@TehAbdullah]

@@emmanuelokerenta2346 Even if so who cares. That thing is so big it might as well be an Ultrabook. Besides if what he said is true then, even if it was tweaked to that level it probably would not be strong enough because many games require much higher CPU power to emulate

[@TRX25EX]

@@emmanuelokerenta2346 Steam Deck have 4 cores only and it's GPU lacks power, you can't do much emulation on it due to hardware limitations, 6800U is alot faster at high power

[@Greez1337]

Steamdeck is also 1/3 the cost. This GPU is not gonna hold up at 1080p with modest settings. Emulation is incredibly CPU single core heavy, so a Quad core Zen 3+ with good speeds is all you really need for 60FPS gaming and emulation. Zen 2 is pretty crap, and 8 cores is overkill.

[@nonholographic]

After looking at the indiegogo I feel like they could stand to eat more cost savings for the buyer now. 50,000% of the goal reached is like the annual profit projection probably? on top of already having like 1000+ pre purchases

[@sd8213]

Sure that's the correct percentage

[@RaphaniacZX]

Nope, specially because you basically asking for a discount the others didn't get, it doesn't work that way

[@nonholographic]

@@RaphaniacZX they have these things called "sales" you might have heard of that do exactly that. Regardless, it's still in prototype phase and once it reaches mass production they could just repackage the concept as a new unit entirely or add lower tier models

[@RaphaniacZX]

@@nonholographic That's a later on concept up to the company, base release probably no, not at all.

[@davejay6855]

Needs the PlayStation Shape Buttons instead of Letters. Other than that though 👍 Should have been a 720p Screen though. There's no reason handhelds need UHD or even just this FHD screens and all the manufacturers trying to push them are just making their device needlessly expensive and seem to be underpowered all because they're trying to do a larger resolution even though the screen wouldn't be big enough for anyone to care whether it's Full HD.

[@arthurmorgan1724]

Please run it with an external gpu something like an rx580 and 3060ti .

[@ViewtifulVash]

What for? You already know how beefy external gpu's work with these kind of units and it makes no sense when it's handling everything perfectly on its own lol

[@liamcollinson5695]

​@@ViewtifulVashI don't know with a good egpu I have seen up to 4k running smoothly

[@thecringe1762]

I know im a year late but mfer doesnt that kinda ruin the purpose of a handheld?

[@justinpatterson5291]

Looks great. Just wish it had a rear touchpad like the Vita. How does it handle games like space engineers, trail makers and Borderlands 2-3?.

[@TheKahim]

rear touchpad was a gimmick.

[@megajatt123]

What would u do with it?

[@mickeymickey9914]

Lolno

[@justinpatterson5291]

@@megajatt123 Well... Considering it looks exactly like a vita. Play games with the vita touch functions enabled.

[@JamesWrightSinisterIntent]

FYI, I was looking at your link to the Amazon soldering station and the link seems broken... Great video, I always like how you break things down and give comparisons for context.

[@ETAPRIME]

Thanks for the heads up fixing now

[@saltyfry4328]

This thing looks awesome! these handhelds just keep getting better at an insane pace

[@snakeeyes824]

If possible moving forward can you please put the price of these machines in the front of your videos. Also what is the price I may have missed it.

[@ryecatcher25]

Lol . Eta eants views l. Thats why the price is never in the title.

[@ltmotley4481]

Sony should learn something from this for us handheld players

[@Garage_gg]

All these are great but the weight bothers me...to truly be a handheld I wonder if it hurts your wrists as most reviews are done on table top with the handheld and wrists resting on it so ..

[@2muchjpop]

The mic is crazy. I have headphones on and it sounds like the voice is in my headphones and the sounds from GPD is coming from my phone in front of me

[@RobsRetroGaming]

Awesome!!! Nice size screen, controls laid out perfectly! Hmmm...

[@JeremyPeeples]

Crazy to see just how many systems this can run at this small a form factor

[@JuanGuillermoSanchezPerez]

Good video. Looks this is going to be a good handheld for emulation.

[@NothingHereForYou]

Man seeing that 3ds emulation makes me realize just how good 3ds games looked. It really had some bangers

[@MatteoMi]

Ha.. coming from another video of yours, just 6 months before this one and.. here it is, proper handheld PS3! :D

[@adro3828]

When I get it, I will upgrade to 2TB M.2 SSD 2280, 1TB MicroSD card, a better battery, a better cpu cooling fan, external cooling fan, privacy tempered glass protector, and complete protection carrying case.

[@gomezstevo]

What’s the website you’re going to use to buy all this?

[@DoubleDragon5180]

@@gomezstevo right? Let me know!

[@SRC267]

Impossible

[@adro3828]

@@gomezstevo obviously Amazon and eBay.

[@adro3828]

@@SRC267 not impossible. You can order all from Amazon.

[@extra4542]

Can’t wait for all the 6800U handhelds to drop in price in the future when newer models come out. They’ll still be more powerful than the steamdeck with much more smaller form factors

[@FattrTV]

This is so awesome. The design is amazing. just need HAL inputs on trigger AND sticks. Maybe an OLED, MAYBE. The next gen APUs are going to drive hand held emulation to the flippin moon.

[@michaeltaylor4817]

I love the look of this device as it looks like a beefed up ps vita, but I feel pc games on a 6inch screen would be too small. Games for the vita were designed with a small screen in mind. So characters designed and text where sized appropriately. How does games like elden ring fair on a 6 inch device?

[@BusterPikachu]

my onexplayer mini won't play a lot of my games, like final fantasy xiii, Chrono cross, Valkyria Chronicles without glitches or some games just won't boot at all. I'm hesitant trying another handheld but I grew up playing a psp everyday and this thing looks amazing.

[@grimmreaper3533]

As far as I'm aware this is now the smallest form factor for this much power. With that in mind, another video Idea would be to see how this performs with Nreal Air and a fold out bluetooth keyboard trackpad combo. Can you fit a full desktop computer experience in 3 pockets?

[@ActionJaxonH]

Can your display show Total Power Draw instead of TDP so we can easily estimate battery life? It's hard to calculate with just TDP

[@CamboRamboTV]

Damn the form factor got me hella interested! Perfect size !

[@YaoyorozuKMomo]

If this lets me play, resident evil outbreak file 1&2 and the classic RE games such as 1-3 Metroid, prime trilogy And hopefully all of the switch games I think I would consider spending $800 if that’s how much it cost or however, much it cost

[@xBionicMeltdownx]

Look forward to trying to get this in the future.

[@changliu7346]

In China you could actually preorder this for like $20 upfront and pay the rest in February. If you happen to have a friend there, maybe that’s a way to make sure you get one without big risks like pay full price on indie.

[@jss4837]

a fellow RDR fan. I personally enjoyed the first game a bit more than RDR2. Reaaaally wish they would port it to PC as well

[@Fernando-Rodriguez]

in the next few years these handhelds will become so powerful and so cheap that they will be a great option to get into PC gaming.

[@otimo144]

It is what we all imagined the ps vita was going to be like when it was first announced

[@garethevans2499]

It would be good to see it run from a dock and with a separate controller, to see if it's as easy and usable as a steam deck in that setup

[@jhonrock2386]

WOW!!!! What a wonder machine!!! But I think the 8/16 core Ryzen is a bit of overkill, the 6/12 core version would be more reasonable from a cost x benefit perspective, the problem is the fact that the IGPU in the 6 core version is capped, when compared to the one in the 8 core.

[@hirosese]

You could put an external gpu with it

[@SRC267]

@@hirosese Pointless because it's no longer portable

[@SRC267]

@Silas2556 then no point in having a deck

[@spectr__]

Why do they keep adding these staggered layout keyboards in these small machines?

[@Omega_12_Maxim]

If one just wanted to emu from nes to ps3/360/switch. Would u choose aya neo 2, gpdwin4, or onexplayer2? All.have similar specs regarding the 6800u 32gb ram and 2tb memory as options so I'd live to hear all opinions.

[@mahendrayulia2704]

Wow I like the design 👍🏻

[@Fabio-kk5xx]

These prices man... It's ridiculous

[@chamoo232]

Now I really don't know what to go for between the GPD, AYN Loki and the AYANEO 2. Spec wide they are all very similar.

[@royhealy6381]

It would be nice to see an Amiga emulator on it. I think it would be great for it.

[@figureheaduk]

This should be easily able to run Amiga (including the CDTV and CD32 spin-off consoles), I've got the much older Android based GPD XD Plus and that runs Amiga no problems at all so I doubt that this newer machine will have issues running hardware that's basically between 30-40 years old...

[@wizzel22]

You can use fs-uae with the nice cover-flow GUI (Arcade Mode).

[@kostasvapo69]

i love this keyboard to screen layout.

[@hrtbrk1127]

How are you doing the animated wallpapers? Great videos.

[@noahneutral7557]

I'm not entirely sure but it may be Wallpaper Engine

[@bensibbick]

Also want to know. Especially the side scrolling active wallpapers he's been posting lately. The one on the train with the background passing by outside the window. So beautiful.

[@brandon_nope]

It's definitely Wallpaper Engine I have that PS2 wallpaper

[@brokenhero6828]

@@bensibbick One of the best things to do is to have Wallpaper engine it’s so underpriced and worth the money. So relaxing and peaceful

[@ferdgerbeler8494]

the real keyboard is what has me tempted, but would want it in something like a 6600 with less ram and storage for around $500

[@brokenhero6828]

I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

[@ferdgerbeler8494]

@@brokenhero6828 Yeah, i just can't wrap my head around paying $1k for something hand held... never broke $250 even for a phone.. like a S10 is really that much slower than the latest flagship to be noticeable. Still sticking with that and my razer kishi for now.. would love to get ahold of one of these rdna2 x86 handhelds at some point though

[@brokenhero6828]

@@ferdgerbeler8494 Honestly the thing stopping me right now is the reliability. These are not American companies so I’m very skeptical about dropping $1000 for something that might break. But honestly this is going to be amazing for me. I’m trying to sell stuff right now to buy this hopefully.

[@brokenhero6828]

@Simon F Yeah good idea, this device is amazing

[@ahmedelboghdadi5328]

Hey Prime! How come you don't put out as many videos of the OXP2 as you do for this one? I'm feeling jealous! Any chance you can have a video posted of both devices head to head?

[@ahmedelboghdadi5328]

You sound much better now btw, really glad you're feeling better

[@SRC267]

He will, just busy

[@Randefelt]

This looks like a super cool device. I wonder how well it functions docked as a Linux desktop doing som photoedeting in Darktable and some light videoedeting in Davinchi. Would you be able to test that? I think It would be a neat all in one device for both light work and play. It got the power of a light laptop and looks to have great cooling to match.

[@mikepirrone9931]

So how long until this kind of power will come down to the $500 price point? A couple years? absolutely amazing how far we have come. I remember your videos on emulating N64 on the odroid.

[@fillerbunnyninjashark271]

Probably like 6-7 years unless China takes over Taiwan... Then never, loll

[@ryecatcher25]

Im more interested in when these units can last more than an hour at full power.

[@CodeSerial]

@@ryecatcher25 new battery tech would be the most practical for this wish. There's a lot of promising tech but nothing has materialized for portable devices yet unfortunately.

[@KesSharann]

$500? Probably never. Not new. They have zero reason to drop the price and GPD will never have the volume of sales to make the price even hit $800 on a unit like this.

[@BortaMaga]

Unless major manufacturers would actually start competing in the handheld PC market, I'd say it'd take forever

[@enniopelliccia3844]

Every time I see one of these handheld I wonder how are them inside, if you can upgrade the thermals using better paste or copper heatsinks

[@ryecatcher25]

Emulate a PS3......for less than an hour. Amazing eta!!!

[@DoubleDragon5180]

You’re cool

[@ryecatcher25]

@@DoubleDragon5180 call em as i see em.

[@DoubleDragon5180]

@@ryecatcher25 right and the Steam Deck is a portrait based screen that can’t play old school games on. You get what you pay for. AMAZING for a $399-$649 device…..

[@Weaver0x00]

Man if only it had the original playstation layout with dpad on top and the nipple below it.

[@jti13]

Battle of the gaming hand helds for the best of 2022!

[@HarmonicTunes]

Is it possible to show off BlueStacks or an Android emulator? And would it kill the battery to have it plugged in while playing for long periods of time?

[@HendraWijaya1983]

The best design.but the screen is too small for windows gaming.i think at least 7 inch is th best size

[@losteden6390]

The Aya Neo Air has the most beautiful design but this is pretty good too ...

[@jamesyu5212]

It's got a 3.6 tflop GPU dude. It's close enough to a PS4 pro. Calling this a portable PS3 is kind of a disservice. A PS3 is only 0.20 tflops. Not even the same league.

[@TAMPATLBLACK]

Did u test the 32GB or 16GB version?

[@RiasatSalminSami]

Th size looks very appealing but their quality control seems to be not good according to many reviews I've seen. That and the price makes it difficult to buy. But the form factor is great.

[@heyjeySigma]

for me its the opposite.. i just want something BIG kinda like the deck or even bigger but the problem is the weight. The Deck is heavy as heck..but larger screen , yet the gpd is small screen but light. i think the nice middleground is something like the switch which is medium weight but decent size screen

[@RiasatSalminSami]

@@heyjeySigma I'd usually go with laptops if I want something big. I personally want something that can fit in my pocket. Battery life of al these devices sucks through, so these are not for me, yet.

[@heyjeySigma]

@@RiasatSalminSami yeah battery lives are terrible... the switch can die within like 2 or 2.5 hours on average and even the steam Deck drains battery within 2-3 hours in a game or even goes down 10% easily even on idle with nothing happening. They need to double these hours then we're talking.. what's the point of "portable" devices if u can just play them a couple hours then charge them again another 1-2 hrs...

[@RiasatSalminSami]

@@heyjeySigma Yeah, if I need to plug in to an outlet to play the games, I might as well just use a laptop at that point. Unless it can play new games for at least 4-6 hours, it's not very useful for me. Can't really charge the device while I'm at a remote place.

[@AnimeStarsYT]

And Red Dead Redemption 2?

[@ronnienoneyabusiness2844]

That thing is killer...but so is the price tag on dat B!

[@rand0mGT]

Need 8in version for those with 8 in d

[@zoiuduu]

dang it, the beginning of the video made me remove my headphones cause i thought the smartphone was also making noise lol

[@ThePianist51]

7:48: So you are a man of culture. xD

[@defyiant]

ETA would it matter a deal for gaming only going with the 16gb ram as opposed to 32gb?

[@SuperKhalid95]

Can you disable the FPS counter on the screen, also can this fit in pockets, and does it come with a handheld case?

[@Zanarkander]

"blows the steam deck out of the water" with a price almost 1000€ is a big "grazie al cazzo"...

[@2-1Bravo]

How did you install live wallpapers? Would love to figure out that xmb wave wallpaper at 1:59, I assume all computers can do this? Been trying to figure it out how to get the ps3 waves for the longest time.

[@sir_ivar]

how is the quality of the plastic? because it looks cheap for its price

[@gamesanddadsgamesanddads6364]

I remember an executive of playstation in an interview he was asked why Sony don't make portable PS3 he replied that a device will be big and it will smoke that was around 3 years ago. Clearly don't simply don't know about engineering they are people that was lucky to have money but unfortunately they don't know sheet of what they are selling

[@robertlawrence9000]

I wish they would have put the left analog stick in the correct position.

[@HRGiger88]

Will this run N64 and Dreamcast games? I want to be able to play all the Cruisn and Wrestling games mainly.

[@casualgamer4112]

Cancelled my Ayn Loki and ordered this instead. Love the form factor and the other additions the Loki just doesn't have.

[@keonxd8918]

Funny how i used my lenovo laptop to activate windows on both my desktop and steam deck. If you login in the same account across all your devices with 1 system with windows activated, all your devices will be activated for some reason.

[@dragonflame9615]

Would it be safe to say games like devil may cry, Bayonetta, and god of war are definitely playable on this ?

[@jakeyanan711]

Where do you get those animated backgrounds? I love them

[@brandon_nope]

Wallpaper Engine

[@IXthCircle]

It emulates everything, even bankruptcy

[@Michael-Martell]

Please compare size and performance with the Aya Neo Next

[@BirSansar]

which one do you guys think better? aya neo 2 or gpd win4?

[@MichaelYouTubetube]

I think glossing over the fact that a TDP change being in bios (aka reboot) is... a choice.

[@paulc2007]

This should be another great mix

[@coffeebean_tamer]

I'd love to see how it handles Soul Calibre PS2/PS3 and Wipeout HD Fury PS3...

[@hamzasoltani5836]

did you just shoot an ancient arrow in the space

[@TheUncannyOne]

I LOVE my SteamDeck but this looks 🔥😭

[@Zordiak]

We're in the future

[@OHCAM5]

Funny how in their page they compare everything to the Steam Deck but the battery life