I’ve got a Powkiddy X55 and I’m really enjoying it, but for some games I find even its 5.5” screen to be fairly small for the task, particularly when looking at games from the 32-bit era and up.
How on earth are people actually managing to play these games on 3.5” and 2.8” displays? I feel like it would be really cramped for screen real estate or you’d basically be holding the device in front of your nose just to play it.
Want to see cramped?
Start up a Nintendo DS game on the RG35XX and then open its configuration.
Imagine its small 3.5" display, but cut equally into 4 tinier squares. The settings screen for the DS emulator is squeezed into 1/4 of the screen at the bottom left, and it uses a tiny font meant for a full screen display.
I had to take off my glasses and hold the RG35XX about 3 inches from my face to see any of the text.
Yikes, that sounds terrible.
I actually really liked handhelds back in the day and still do. I had the original Game Boy, eventually the GB Pocket and GBA, and the Nintendo DS Lite was one of my favorite devices of all time.
But now though? I can’t fathom something smaller than the 2DS XL and even with the Powkiddy x55 there’s games I’m like… this is gray but let me move this over to my tablet.
I feel like 7-8” display is the sweet spot for me, but finding a reasonably powerful device in that form factor is just a no-go unless I want to spring for the Steam Deck. Tablets in that size tend to be trash.