I think the Edge probably never took off when released because people thought - rightly - that the original asking price of $400 was way too high for what you get. But when you can pick these up for $250 or less (Amazon have put these on sale several times for $250, Newegg had them at $230), then you've got a far more compelling case for a purchase. I've only had the Edge for a couple of days, but I'm liking the performance so far ... and the OLED screen - despite the 20:9 aspect ratio and rounded corners - is absolutely beautiful. I'll give it a more proper review when I've had a chance to play with it for a while. Thanks for watching! I put these videos up mainly because I enjoy testing out these devices and I have been a retrogamer and collector for about three decades now!

You are a sucker. I pity your choices

The curved bezel is weird, yes ... mainly because the device *itself* isn't rounded off on the corners. I really have no idea why they designed it that way. Of course, if you're going to play 16:9 and not stretch it, the black bars on the sides make the curves invisible for widescreen content. If you can look past the curves and the 20:9 aspect ratio, the screen is really good for an emulation device. 144Hz (can set refresh rate lower to get more battery life), apparent HDR support, great colors and contrast that my camera just isn't up to capturing properly, and reasonably bright. I haven't had the Edge long enough to do a proper "review", but so far I've been satisfied with the performance for PS2. It's performed more like an Odin 2 than like an RG Cube/RG556. I think you're exactly right on where the Edge is on the power spectrum - better than RP4P, far better than the T820 handhelds, but not quite up to the level of Odin 2. I think where the Odin 2 is a clear winner is going to be Switch and Winlator ... the 6GB of RAM in the Edge is going to be limiting. Glad you enjoyed the videos! (The Cube "first impressions" video did run a little longer than I had originally planned for, but I just got into it and ended up testing out four games instead of two!)

@@chemicalburrito782 Yeah forgot to mention that due to the screen being rectangular, THEN adding the curved layer on top of that messes with the device’s uniformity, and yeah you can probably just play in 4:3 (don’t even like playing in 16:9 for those systems to begin with). Even though a lot people don’t see the point of 144hz, in terms of the device most of the time not being able to drive that refresh rate (similar to what people said about the Legion Go) which I understand what they’re saying. But an extremely overlooked aspect of having that high refresh rate is the responsiveness/snappy nature of the device. It just makes the experience of traversing through apps and pages a lot more fluid. Like you mentioned as well, you can always adjust the refresh rate to preserve battery life. Odin 2 definitely reigns supreme in regard to specs of performance. Also on the topic of Winlator, even though the Odin 2 is way better for Winlator, I’m kind of curious how older CD-ROM (especially from the Late 90s) games will run on the Cube/Edge, since they’re mostly less demanding than the more modern titles I’ve seen people test. And hey I’ll take the longer videos. The more info the better.

I'm going to put up a more proper "review" video once I've had the device a little longer, but so far I'm glad I went ahead and bought one. It's probably going to end up as the device that's in my bag every day.

Out of the box, you have the standard Android screen recorder available … which can record gameplay video and audio. There’s also some linking capability between the Nexus app (preinstalled for the controller) and KZfaq for live streaming, but I haven’t messed with that since I haven’t done livestreams.

@@chemicalburrito782 Thank you!

That's that old Star Wars MMO for Windows, right? You could probably *stream* it to this handheld from a Windows machine, but I've not heard of anyone running it native on Android via Winlator.

@@syunukiya That's certainly fair. For me, the tradeoff of much higher screen quality for the downside of having black bars due to the 20:9 aspect ratio is one that I'm more willing to make. In the end, what tradeoffs to make comes down to personal preference. Was looking at Reddit earlier and saw someone posting about how good it felt to play PSP on the RG Cube!

power? cant handle 60fps in Jak 3 in only 2xnative res lol

@@omgoat power is not measured by jak 3 alone. It can 3x/60fps majority of the ps2 library. You can even try Vulkan backend. But then again, with this screen it's really not worth playing PS2 games on it.

Price got cut to $250 US ... and it was on sale for $200 US last month. That's why people have been talking about the Edge. There's no way I'd have bought one for the equivalent of $521 US. Or $400 US, which was the original price over here - still too expensive.