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Think gaming handhelds are too expensive? Ayaneo says 'hold my beer,' lists $5,000+ monster
Ayaneo said it was suspending pre-orders for its Next 2 gaming handheld earlier this year, after rising storage costs and the ongoing memory crisis made it "no longer sustainable." Well, it's now listed on Ayaneo's website—with an asking price for the top model of $5,299.
I'll wait for you to pick up your jaw. Back with us? Good. The top-end Ayaneo Next 2 comes with an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 APU, which is a Strix Halo beastie that's damn expensive no matter the device you find it in. newsbetting.club
Storage wise, you get a 2 TB SSD. Sheesh, I know NAND prices are silly right now, but surely a single NVMe drive can't be entirely to blame. As for the RAM? Well it's... oh. Oh I see. The top spec model comes with, brace yourselves, 128 GB of LPDDR5x-8533.
Yep, that would account for the super-silly price tag. I know the the Next 2 is positioning itself to be the handheld to end all handhelds, but 128 GB of RAM? For what, exactly?
It's a Windows-based machine, so I suppose you could get up to some AI-based tomfoolery with it. Other than that, though, I cannot see a world where a 128 GB gaming handheld makes any sense.
Of course, there are cheaper models available. The 64 GB version will run you *gulp* $3,699, whereas the entry level model (and I use the term very loosely) with 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage is a mere $2,999, with shipping said to begin at the end of this month.
No mattery which way you look at it, each of these prices is simply too much to pay for most mere mortals. And those with the cash to splash will still likely wince a little at this pricing.
Remember when I said the Asus ROG Xbox Ally X was kinda good value now at $1,000? Yep, that's the world we're living in in 2026, folks. And unfortunately, it's probably only going to get worse from here.
China en de Filipijnen wisselen beschuldigingen uit na een incident tussen schepen in wateren die door beide landen worden betwist
Territoriale conflicten in de Azië-Pacificregio blijven escaleren, waarbij China het middelpunt van alles is. De Aziatische reus neemt een confronterende houding aan terwijl hij subtiel maar geleidelijk de maritieme en territoriale soevereiniteit van de andere landen in zijn omgeving bedreigt. Naast de crisis met Taiwan is er nu een incident in de wateren van de Zuid-Chinese Zee waarbij de Filipijnen betrokken zijn.
Volgens een rapport van Reuters meldde de Filipijnse strijdkrachten (AFP) dat een Chinese kustwachtboot met een starre romp en acht bemanningsleden aan boord dichtbij hun oorlogsschip op Second Thomas Shoal naderde en foto's en video's maakte. Toen twee Philippine Navy-boten het Chinese schip probeerden te verdrijven, "reageerde de bemanning gewelddadig en agressief en sloeg leden van de Filipijnse marine met een houten knuppel."
Beide landen beschuldigen elkaar van het uiten van bedreigingen en het escaleren van de situatie, en China heeft beschuldigingen van agressief gedrag tijdens de confrontaties in de Zuid-Chinese Zee ontkend en de Filipijnen beschuldigd van het binnendringen van hun wateren. Deze kwestie zal naar verwachting worden besproken tijdens een ASEAN-bijeenkomst (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) in Manilla deze week, waar ook de Chinese minister van Buitenlandse Zaken aanwezig zal zijn.
GTA 6 probably won't include any cut content, says GTA 5 producer, even though Rockstar snuck "unannounced" game's missions into GTA 4
Rockstar probably isn't planning to slip any sneaky cut content from its previous games into GTA 6, says GTA 5 producer John Ricchio, though the developer has done it before.
Ricchio tells Kiwi Talkz about Rockstar's approach to cut content in a recent interview, "If the tech is fundamentally the same, or similar enough, you can sometimes plop it in as like, 'Hey, let's just see how this works.'" Ricchio specifically remembers Rockstar adding "some" missions from a cancelled, unannounced game into GTA 4, "which was kind of cool."
"So there's the notion like, 'Hey, this idea is cool. We should keep this idea going.' I think that 100% happens," Ricchio says. But "when it comes to actually, like, lifting scripting or a code into a new game, that depends a lot on how much the tech has changed."
Still, even when Rockstar devs could borrow intriguing concepts from previous games, they might choose not to. Ricchio explains, "In a lot of cases, there's almost never – you're usually not limited by ideas, right? Like there's always tons of ideas. The more creative folks you got, you got tons of ideas."
"I haven't seen a huge need to go back and pull from old stuff unless something was just really cool," Ricchio continues, "and people really want to bring the idea forward."
But what if I want to learn if Bully's cut Tie Headband Punk could turn his life around among GTA 6's Leonida beaches? "It's possible," says Ricchio about Rockstar adopting cut content, but "I don't think it's very common unless you're doing a fast-follow."
Kina og Filippinerne udveksler anklager efter en hændelse mellem fartøjer i farvande, som de to lande er omstridt af
Territoriale konflikter i Asien-Stillehavsområdet fortsætter med at eskalere, med Kina i centrum for dem alle. Den asiatiske gigant fastholder en konfronterende holdning, mens den subtilt, men gradvist, truer de andre landes maritime og territoriale suverænitet i nærheden. Ud over krisen med Taiwan er der nu en hændelse i farvandet i Det Sydkinesiske Hav, der involverer Filippinerne.
Ifølge en Reuters-rapport oplyste Filippinernes væbnede styrker (AFP), at en kinesisk kystvagts stivskrogsbåd med oppustelig båd og otte besætningsmedlemmer om bord nærmede sig tæt på deres krigsskib, der var strandet på Second Thomas Shoal, og tog fotografier og videoer. Da to filippinske flådebåde rykkede ind for at drive det kinesiske fartøj væk, "reagerede besætningen voldsomt og aggressivt og slog medlemmer af den filippinske flåde med en træstav."
Begge nationer beskylder hinanden for at fremsætte trusler og eskalere situationen, og Kina har nægtet anklager om aggressiv adfærd under sammenstødene i Det Sydkinesiske Hav og har beskyldt Filippinerne for at trænge ind på deres farvande. Dette emne forventes at blive drøftet på et ASEAN-møde (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) i Manila i denne uge, som den kinesiske udenrigsminister også forventes at deltage i.
Todd Howard om pensionen: "Det fanns en period då jag funderade på hur det skulle bli"
Todd Howard har i decennier varit den mest framträdande personen hos Bethesda och den man först tänker på när studion kommer på tal. Trots att han har varit ett välkänt namn under lång tid är han dock bara 55 år gammal. Howard har dock arbetat målmedvetet och outtröttligt med Bethesdas spel så länge att Bloombergs Jason Schreier nyligen passade på att fråga honom om en eventuell pension när han fick möjlighet att intervjua honom.
Det är något Howard har funderat över tidigare och i Schreiers senaste Youtube-video läste han upp ett citat från just Howard:
"The truth is there was a period of time a while back where I pondered what does it look like? Not is it imminent, but what does it look like? And I no longer do. I see the work we're doing. I just love it. I love working with these people. [Retirement] is really not something I think about... Some folks in our industry that are a little older than me, they're just making great stuff too, so it's not something I've been thinking about."
Howard, som vanligtvis är både privat och hemlighetsfull, och hans team hos Bethesda presenterade nyligen studions omfattande planer för Starfield, Fallout och {The Elder Scrolls VI}. Eftersom Xbox vill se mer av Bethesdas största spelserier verkar det som att vi kan få se en mer öppen Howard framöver.