AYANEO Pocket S will be the first handheld game machine with Qualcomm’s new processor platform, the G series, announced at Gamescom 2023.

The Cologne Entertainment Fair is coming to an end and, as expected, it has left us with games, many games, and also new technologies and hardware, components such as graphics cards or processors, peripherals, especially monitors, or accessories such as Sony’s PlayStation. A portal that – without being the standalone handheld console we’re used to – will be useful for PS5 owners when it comes to remote gaming.

AYANEO Pocket S

Ayaneo is one of the great specialists in the design and manufacture of hand machines. Although the Steam Deck is being talked about as a real boost to the current boom in the sector, we mustn’t forget the Chinese manufacturers who were launching this type of machine long before Valve got in on the act. And for that reason, we didn’t want to end our Gamescom coverage without introducing the segment’s news.

Ayaneo announced a collaboration with Qualcomm to adopt its new platform. As we told you last week, this is the new G series, the series high performance SoC designed and optimized for this type of device, small. Qualcomm claims it delivers a 30% increase in CPU performance and double the GPU performance delivered by the previous generation. Specifically, the Pocket S will use the Snapdragon G3x Gen 2.

From what we can see in the published images, the Ayaneo machine will have a thin body with no screen bezels, ergonomically designed to accommodate the analog sticks and D-pad. Your experience using handling capacity “it will be comparable to a gamepad”As per notification.

I will have “Strong cooling capabilities” for the Qualcomm chip to maintain high performance during long games without thermal throttling. Having a good cooling system is crucial for this type of gaming machine, as well as other sections such as autonomy, that not all devices that have arrived so far meet a reasonable number of hours.

The machine will be offered in black and white color finish and in three variants– A lightweight model optimized for portable gaming, a model with longer battery life and a third that offers a “peak performance”. No pricing has been announced for some of the machines expected to hit the market in December for the holiday season. To say that the AYANEO Pocket S will work on the Android operating system, compared to other lines of the manufacturer that bet on Windows. We will have to see its ability for cloud gaming.