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usertests Looks like the guy who complained hard on the previous article got deleted, I was gonna quote him in. That's quite the twist, that it was authorized to any extent. Still fairly uninteresting at that price point. Reply
Notton I'm not entirely surprised. Lenovo (Xiaoxin) sells a bunch of products under its brand, even though it's a 3rd party product. Their Go series of gaming handhelds have overly long gaps between driver updates exactly because the manufacturer is 3rd party, and the drivers are left to the 3rd party. Which is unlike Asus, who does everything from top to bottom. Lenovo also sells a bunch of Chinese market only devices like the Y70 gaming smartphone, and Y900 productivity tablet. The likes of which we rarely get to see in the western markets. Not that you can't buy Xiaoxin products from places like Aliexpress, but the firmware, localization, etc. are tailored for Mainland China, and not for westerners. As for Nintendo, the only thing they can likely do is ask for an import ban of that product specifically, but good luck with that, lol. Reply
samtobyjenkins Notton said: I'm not entirely surprised. Lenovo (Xiaoxin) sells a bunch of products under its brand, even though it's a 3rd party product. Their Go series of gaming handhelds have overly long gaps between driver updates exactly because the manufacturer is 3rd party, and the drivers are left to the 3rd party. Which is unlike Asus, who does everything from top to bottom. Lenovo also sells a bunch of Chinese market only devices like the Y70 gaming smartphone, and Y900 productivity tablet. The likes of which we rarely get to see in the western markets. Not that you can't buy Xiaoxin products from places like Aliexpress, but the firmware, localization, etc. are tailored for Mainland China, and not for westerners. As for Nintendo, the only thing they can likely do is ask for an import ban of that product specifically, but good luck with that, lol. Yeah I don't see why this is an issue when the retro handheld brands like Anbernic, Retroid and Powkiddy have all been shipping SD cards stuffed with unlicensed ROMs for years. Is the idea that Nintendo will pay more attention now because Lenovo is a more well known brand? I don't see why that would be the case – Nintendo are happy to go after small YouTubers and the like so it's not like they leave the little guys alone and only go after bigger companies. I imagine the reason they don't do anything about this sort of piracy is as you suggest – they don't have any real power over what happens with Chinese products. Reply
bigdragon The G02 looks very awkward to hold and use. I'm not a fan of its design even if I do like the concept of a retro handheld device. I have to wonder if a company would have great success getting together a bunch of developers to make new 2D games in which to launch on a retro-focused system like this. There is probably a market between the AAA and indie space that is being completely ignored right now. As for the Nintendo rom angle to this story, I feel so devastated for Nintendo here. Honestly, I might even shed a tear. Poor big N is having ancient games they couldn't be bothered to charge money for on the eShop or provide at no-additional-cost as part of their online subscription thing given away for free in some unauthorized, unaffiliated, and unlicensed product. We need a worldwide emergency declaration begging people to bash Lenovo until they stop because Lenovo is unlikely to change their brand to another random combination of key presses like every other company hawking white-label products when something goes wrong. (I'm being facetious with this paragraph) Reply
hotaru251 It’s unclear if these games are licensed at all its Nintendo….they'd rather die than allow their games to run on non nintendo handhelds. Reply
edzieba hotaru251 said: its Nintendo….they'd rather die than allow their games to run on non nintendo handhelds. Unless you're Nvidia, in which case Nintendo will license you to port games to Android for the Chinese market. So it's not impossible Lenovo has officially licensed games from Nintendo, merely very, very unlikely in this case – at the very least you'd expect Lenovo to be throwing out press releases crowing about having Nintendo games available. Reply
Notton bigdragon said: The G02 looks very awkward to hold and use. I'm not a fan of its design even if I do like the concept of a retro handheld device. The shape is a trade-off for a pocket sized device. That market segment has a few different designs, so it's pretty much a situation of choose your poison. Lenovo isn't shipping one, but there are models with the controls on the sides like a PSP or GBA. Reply
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