It’s solely Wednesday, and it appears like I’ve been writing about upcoming handhelds for weeks now, the Powkiddy X28 is one which slipped my radar.

The RG505, ANBERNIC’s mini handheld and official information of the Retroid Pocket 3 has stuffed this week’s to do listing, however it’s lastly time to speak concerning the Powkiddy X28.

The X28 was formally leaked a number of weeks in the past, however solely a picture of the again was proven, not sufficient for us to supply a information submit on, however now a picture of the entrance alongside rumoured specs has been revealed growing our curiosity and eventually motivating me to put in writing this text.

With the ever growing dimension of retro handhelds, it seems to be like Powkiddy wish to add a chunky boi to their arsenal, maybe to compete with the Win600 or the RP3.

Visually, I’ll admit, it seems to be a bit underwhelming, however ergonomically it seems to be considerably comfy, and in actuality that’s an important half. But these sharp corners might shock is.

It has angled shoulder buttons, giant grips on the again, robust air flow, a big 5.5″ display screen and two analogue sticks too.

Powkiddy X28 Specifications (Rumoured)

• 5.5″ IPS Touch-screen Display (1280 x 720)
• 1.8 Ghz Octa-core UNISOC Tiger T618
• Mali-G52 GPU
• 4GB RAM
• 5000MAH Battery
• Android 11
• Wifi/Bluetooth

What can it emulate?

On paper it’s rocking a pleasant quantity of energy with a touchscreen show to function the Android working system. With this type of energy it’s possible it will probably emulate the greatest Dreamcast video games extremely properly.

It’s utilizing the identical chip because the Powkiddy X18S which from expertise struggled with PS2 and enormous gamecube video games.

But 4GB’s of RAM won’t be sufficient to energy your bigger video games on PS2 and Gamecube.

Only time will inform, however for the X28 to seize consideration, it must emulate all Gamecube video games at an inexpensive value.

Powkiddy X28 Release Date & Pricing

As of now there isn’t any official data concerning the discharge date, but when we needed to guess, it’s more likely to launch in September or October and be priced below $199. If it’s priced below $150, then it’s more likely to promote a bunch with the specs listed above.

Do it, Powkiddy!

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A 29 yr previous fella that’s had a Gameboy habit ever since he was a baby. Brandon is the founding father of RetroDodo and created a YouTube channel with 240,000 subscribers devoted to retro gaming merchandise. He now needs to create the No.1 web site to showcase the most recent retro merchandise from across the globe.