Steam Deck gets its first SteamOS competitor from Ayaneo

The Steam Deck has seen loads of challengers since its arrival, however all have used Home windows quite than SteamOS as their working system. Now, nearly two years for the reason that launch of Valve’s pocket rocket, a brand new handheld from Ayaneo would be the first third-party system to make use of the Linux-based OS.

A big a part of why the Steam Deck reigns supreme because the best gaming handheld is right down to its working system. Even with its flaws, SteamOS merely affords a much more intuitive software program expertise than any answer present in a Home windows handheld. Now, we’ll quickly study what it appears like to make use of it with out Valve on the helm.

Introduced by way of a weblog post on the Ayaneo web site, the corporate has introduced its subsequent handheld: ‘Subsequent Lite’. Whereas we don’t know what APU will energy the system, we do have just a few crumbs to go on relating to its wider specs.

The Ayaneo Subsequent Lite specs are:

The Subsequent Lite will characteristic a 7-inch show with a local decision of 800p, whereas the panel kind hasn’t been confirmed it’s more likely to be IPS. This display and the remainder of the hand held’s innards can be powered by a 47WHr battery, a contact smaller in capability than the 50WHr discovered within the Steam Deck OLED however bigger than the 40WHr within the Steam Deck LCD.

Curiously, Ayaneo is describing the Subsequent Lite as a “value-for-money” choice. This means, it received’t mirror the likes of the ROG Ally or Legion Go, in addition to the lately introduced Claw, and will give the Steam Deck a run for its cash (actually).

Its worth, nevertheless, will finally be decided by efficiency, which we are able to’t start to estimate till we all know Ayaneo’s processor plans in additional element. Fortunately, we shouldn’t have to attend an excessive amount of longer to search out out, as extra particulars ought to be forthcoming on January 11, 09:30 PM (EST).

Try our MSI Claw preview for extra particulars on one more Steam Deck competitor.