AYANEO has revealed that its third handheld to launch in Australia, the AYANEO 2, is up for pre-order in Australia with a February 16th release date.
This is what the portable PC gaming world has been waiting for for a while, and while it’s only on paper with early reviews in the review unit (impressions coming soon), this is finally a stronger than Steam deck. Thing. Equipped with RDNA2 Zen 3 graphics. With a 1080p display and the ability to push up to a 32W TDP (Steam Deck is capped at 15W), you can push to higher performance modes at higher frame rates.
AYANEO 2 Australia Pre-Order Link
Coming to Australia, the AYANEO 2 model comes in black with 16 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD. There is no sign of an official Steam Deck being released in Australia yet, but given that retailers such as Amazon, Kogan, and Catch have imported international versions of Steam Decks, and prices are dropping, price comparisons are warranted. there is. .
The AYANEO 2 is priced at AU$2,099, which is about double the cost of the 64GB version of the Steam Deck, but with 64GB of storage versus 1TB, the AYANEO 2 has a larger battery, more powerful internals, All PC stores use Windows 11 and it really depends on what you want. 2 is clearly a much better price than the NEXT when it dropped here a few months ago at about the same price point.
I’ll let you know when I have time to properly load test AYANEO 2, but for build quality and how the game performs on this Windows 11 device, read my reviews of AYANEO Next and AYANEO Air Pro here. I can.
