It's been hours since they've been up and only the indigo has sold out since that's the one color that's been in demand. Looks like even scalpers arent biting this time since trying to flip it would be impossible.
@@CZpersi It depends on what you want as a weakness. Vibranium is vulnerable to electricity; Adamantium is susceptible to heat. Why don’t we just settle for Dargonite? lol
I actually thought about getting an Analogue Pocket but I got a used Anbernic from Facebook marketplace and it was actually really nice, and I only spent $60 for it preloaded with a 400gb microsd. It was the RG351V model which happened to be the same type of form factor as the Pocket.
Yeah actually they are. The people they sell that aluminum to take it and sell it for way more than they pay homeless people who basically gather it for them.
@@runescape2710 FPGA > Emulators. That aside, if you want to emulate Game Boy and Game Boy Color, get the funny playing GBC and build your own. If you don’t care about using a steam deck, just get a steam deck. It just depends on what you want and how you want it. I personally modded everything except the board for my old GBA and got myself a flash cart and boom, the original experience, but I don’t have to spend $50-$120 for a single game.
@@rodmunch69 I have yet to hear a single example of when FPGA was more accurate in GB/C/A emulation. Analogue bros always swear "its FPGA its more accurate" but with the relative simplicity of GB/C/A emulation there are some REALLY accurate emulators.
Fpga is not superior in any way to software emulation. It's just hardware emulation instead of software. Thinking its inherently better is just a sign that you fell for their marketing.
@@demonreturns4336 Thanks for the heads up. Now I can see it again. In the meantime I educated myself on the matter. Seems this channel is set to TH-cam's auto moderation, which blocked my comment, and then the channel owner looked at the "spamfolder" and whitelisted it after a while. Happens often. But a lot of channel owners don't bother or simply get way too many comments to review the blocked ones.
@@user-cz5fr5yk7k really poor behavior. If they wanted more money for their products they should increase the MSRP, not secretly withhold stock to scam their own fans
You can find a used like new steam deck and mod it or even pay someone to mod it and be cheaper yet after everything else you have to buy for the pocket 😂
I'm still waiting for them to release a patch for the Pocket Adapter set... currently as it stands you can't play the entire library of Neo Geo Pocket games as most games freeze to a black screen.
I got an analogue pocket over a year ago. Being that I live in the UK even the basic model with no extras cost me close to $450. Thankfully I was able to sell a kidney from each of my two children to afford it.
$200 is already a ridiculous price for the original model. If someone just wants to play GB, GBC and GBA games, there are a bunch of handhelds out there for under $100 that can play those games and more.
Fpga on the pocket isnt any better than emulation on way cheaper handhelds. Fpga is just hardware emulation, software emulation is already pretty accurate. This isn't the 90s anymore.
@@stabinghobo57 Both the Pocket and the Funny Playing CGB use an inaccurate crystal oscillator, meaning they are not perfect. The Modretro Chromatic is the only FPGA handheld that would potentially be near perfect as it's using a crystal oscillator that is within the specifications of the original GB and CGB.
They're expensive because they're going after the whales right now. Once they exhaust the hardcore retro gamer market, they'll probably make a cheaper version aimed at more casual consumers. They're using the same playbook as Arcade 1Up.
I think the aluminium is waayyy to expensive. Specialy when you buy from europe like me. With imports fees, tax and shipping they are like 750 /800 dollars a piece. I love my original one. Buying two is actually the only good thing for people living over sees. I ordered one for me and one for my 76 year old mother who loves handhelds, split the shipping that is way to expensive in the first place. And she does not know how to order it anyway
I wanted to order Analogue Pocket when it _finally_ appeared on stock, only to learn that they refuse shipping to my country, which is like literally in the heart of European Union. They ship to all the surrounding countries, but mine does not exist for them, despite the fact that EU has a common customs zone. I wrote to their customer support to notify them that my country is missing and their response basically was: "We do not ship to Czechia, because we do not ship there". This was the point, when I just gave up on them. Btw.: 499 dollars buys you, hmmm... Steam Deck Oled?
They also do not ship to Poland. I don't know why Czechia, but Poland has really bad complicated and unclear custom rules and procedures. It affects many senders, so they all just stopped shipping to Poland.
I like the Analog Pocket. I just don't like that they don't take back orders or continue to sell the other consoles. I'm not a fan of this FOMO BS. When I saw they were releasing it in aluminum and saw the price, my question is "Who the heck is this for?" People just want the system. Just make more of them like any other company does when their product is in demand. Besides, aren't aluminum shells for original Game Boy systems normally $100 even with color anodizing. Why is this a nearly $300 premium?
Analogue hates money. If they just kept the standard editions in stock, they would make more money because the Pockets are so good. I do wonder how many Pockets on eBay are actually being sold by Analogue. I bet they do.
@@user-cz5fr5yk7k You completely missed his point. He was saying if Analogue didn't artificially short supply their products and made enough to always keep some in stock they would make a lot more money. Instead, all the extra capital goes to scalpers on ebay selling them for double.
I feel like Analogue is turning into Apple. Their new Analogue pocket model is worth 500 bucks. You could buy a PS5 or an Xbox Series X with that money. I'm surprised that bots haven't bought the new Analogue pocket yet lol.
It's odd to compare them with Analogue. PS5 or Xbox are produced in batches of millions, and Sony and Microsoft also get your money when you buy games in their stores and from game licensing commissions. If they didn't have this, they would easily sell their consoles for $1-2K.
The Duo they made fixes all the hassles of trying to own a working Turbo Duo, and they've got a new N64 that can run original carts in 4K. Analogue's stuff isn't the cheapest, but the quality is good.
Id just buy another anbernic for a fraction of the cost. Then not being in stock, and likely inflating their own prices, makes me not wanna buy their system when I can still get surprisingly great quality for less then $80
I was on there mailing list for there snes version and was never able to get an order in after a couple of years picked it up on eBay for almost double asking price getting there products has always been next to zero chance very discouraging for us old school enthusiast thx for bringing this to light
@@SKOTxFREE I'm aware of what it does. I just don't have any interest. A modded gbc, jail broken 3ds and psp go is all the handhelds I need for on the go.
My biggest issue with Analogue is their shipping costs.....when I bought my Pocket a few years back it was $90 to ship to Australia, and no doubt a whole lot more today. So if I wanted one of these it would probably cost me at minimum $600 ($500+$100 shipping)...that would be close to $1000 Australian...thats an insane price (and aluminum is spelt differently to aluminium which is why we pronouce it differently :)
Analogue is making another version of one of their systems for $280 more than the original version just because it is made out of aluminum, that's great. And by great, I mean *fricking* putrid. (Scott the Woz reference)
I would have happily bought most of their consoles, I tried a few times. After failing to get the Super Nt I gave up. Lost interest in the company and now I only hear about them like this. They are a shitshow of a company. I understand wanting to limit the amount of product you produce to reduce costs but when you are only producing a certain amount and hundreds of not thousands of people are missing out. That's not a smart business move, that is just leaving money on the table.
This is the 4th re-release. 1st was black and white. 2nd was glow-in-the-dark. 3rd was multiple colors. 4th was translucent colors. 5th is now the aluminum.
Totally agree is a chinese made product end of the day. Christopher Taber's greed has sunk to a new low with this release. This is almost on par with Hot Glue Gun wooden neogeo. No one has asked for a 4k n64, hdmi mods are the way forward for n64. They did release products which had there place in the market enabling HDMI on nes, snes and MD era. But that's no longer the case.
Totally agree HDMI mod on a N64, with wireless retrobit brawler controller and a everdrive x7 will be all you ever need. Christopher Taber is going down for this one.
I had one of his wooden neo geo it was epensive, also covered with glue gun worst than products from aliexpress. I was completely ripped off. It had a yellow tinge display.....
I used to work in the camera industry. A plastic body DSLR cost a few dollars an aluminum DSLR costs a few hundred. It's because of all the machining. A plastic body can be pumped out of a mold. An aluminum body has to be machine drilled and lathed, placed into multiple CNC machines and has to be inspected after each part of the process.
@@DeffoZappo No sense in trying to explain that to this guy or his audience. They'd rather think they are correct than actually learn anything that might differ from what they thought.
I bought my Analogue pocket from the 2nd market and I bought the game gear adapter from their site, but the shipping is ridiculous, 30 bucks to ship? Tf!?
I remember being so stoked back in 1998 when I first saw images of the Gameboy Pocket on a magazine (I thought it was aluminum) but when I finally got one it was a huge disappointment to realize it was plastic and that the paint faded out after rough usage.
A few months ago, I was looking or a consol to play retro games. Because I was interested in the analog at one point , I recently got a email about this limited edition aluminum version. I just laughed and dismissed the email
I agree 100% with what you said, but they are making money and they are successful. These will eventually sell out therefore they won’t even get the “message”. The truth is every single company out there making products don’t really care about their customers. They want to sell the products so they pretend to care. At the end of the day, it’s business.
There are companies that make emulation handhelds that literally play everything the Analogue Pocket can and then some for much cheaper. I mean, $500 makes sense for a PC handheld, but not for a Game Boy on steroids.
My Analogue Pocket docked on my 4K TV plays better than any emulation device. It is much more responsive. If you want FPGA but don't need a handheld, check out Mister project and the soon to be released clone for much cheaper. (The clone is the same hardware minus the components Mister doesn't use). The Mister can also do Sega Saturn, PS1 and they are working on N64. Why buy Analogue's N64 clone that will only do N64 when the Mister can do N64 and any system before that. The same people are working on their own cheaper and just as powerful FPGA handheld as well.
Man, you just get real hardware for way cheaper than messing with Analogue. Get yourself a RetroTink 5X along with it and it's working wonders. A flash cart on top of that as well
My childhood hockey sticks were made of aluminum. I drink a 12 pack of soda that is also stored in aluminum cans. It's not rare. My Nintendo Switch Oled cost $350... yeah this is dumb.
I thought about buying one, but I just bought a Game Boy Color with an OLED. Wanting to buy an Advanced SP next. I guess indigo is everyone’s favorite color, because the indigo aluminum is now sold out.
For $500, they could have given it a SAMOLED display, higher quality audio DAC and headphone AMP, a magnetically attachable analogue stick, a more powerful FPGA for the openFPGA platform, even for the normal Pocket unit, I honestly believe when something isn't 100% available, it may as well not exist at all, I love FPGA gaming, as it really does offer the same perfect input fidelity of real hardware, and perfect 1:1 parity compatibility, Windows and Linux OS environments are just too jittery with way too much input latency, USB latency, poor video & audio timings, difficult to get working with an RGB CRT display, and so on, the MiSTer offers reference quality video & audio for both analogue CRTs and modern digital displays, both real hardware and accurate emulated MIDI & synth audio options, 0ms input response SNAC controller support with real gamepads for any console of choice, so you can play N64 games with real N64 gamepad for example and enjoy the real mechanical optical 3D analogue stick that is the best way to enjoy N64 games, it is just a beautiful and elegant piece of hardware, and with the $99 MiSTer board coming out soon, will be really accessible for everyone, so everyone can enjoy perfect reference quality legacy computer, console and arcade games up to the 5th generation with perfect input fidelity and real controllers on CRTs and OLED displays.
Never understood this trend with aluminum Gameboy shells and now Analogue Pockets. This is a device you hold in your bare hands to play, and stick in your pocket when not playing. Aluminum is heavy and gets cold to the touch in a chilly room. I've also seen anuminum shells, especially colored ones, get ugly dark or light scuff and gouge marks from a few years of use. My 25 year old Gameboy Color is made of lighter weight plastic, is durable enough to withstand a kid chucking it across the room, and is comfortable to hold in any temperature room. It's also gotten enough surface scratches and wear over the years, but still looks way better than an aluminum shell after half as much wear. Dishonorable mention to all GBA SP colorways and most DSi non-XL and New 3DS XL colorways though, for just how dang easily they scratch up and how ugly the scratches are since they're painted and the plastic under the paint is a different color. GBA SP or 3DS are still what I'm going to grab if I want to play a Gameboy or GBA game in 2024 though.
Why charge a high price plus tax/shipping and not offer a payment plan? I honestly don’t understand. The metal probably looks gorgeous but taking it out of the house with no case to protect it is scary af 😬
Everyone sings nothing but praise for the Analogue Pocket, I'm refreshed to hear someone calling this out . I passed on the AP , only because of the price really, but why would I spend that much to feel good about the way I am consuming all the same media? Looks sweet though...
its a dumb take, its one company who actively preys on gaming nostalgia. The countless other companies who make handhelds are awesome, reasonable initial price, having frequent discounts, HAVING STOCK ALWAYS. You cannot let a trash comp like Analogue ruin the term retro gaming.
$500 for the same handheld, but it's metal? lol; How about news on that N64 console, Analogue!? You said it was coming out this year and it's almost August!
The regular one was already too expensive. It's a bad look; bad marketing, manufactured scarcity. Instead of innovating, they went to greed and exploitation.
I just bought a Megahypertech Super Pocket when it came out last year, £50 with 18 built in Taito games, and added a couple of Evercade carts for it. Device, 36 games, £82 total inc VAT with zero piracy involved.
US$60 shipping to my country for the Pocket Aluminium Edition - looks like Analogue may have stopped hiding some of the actual sticker price in the shipping (and handling) cost. The Megadrive and SNES Analogue devices would have cost me US$90 for shipping (and handling). I suspected that they were paying for the warehouse/handling in the shipping price, or they were being stupid on "picking absolute worst case for overseas shipping prices" for most countries as a whole, and just charging everyone that high end price. Looks like the non-Aluminium Pocket shipping price roughly a year ago was US$90 to a similar country to me (from a reddit post). Maybe they decided US$90 shipping for the US$500 Pocket was "a bit too much of an ask". Funny thing is I might have bought an Analogue Megadrive or SNES if they had priced it US$50 more for the RRP, and didn't charge as much for the shipping.
@@SurfNinjas the graphics are actually a lot better on the GameBoy Player. The system upscales the image and has a natural look on the TV, the way the game was originally intended. Looks a lot better than a game running on Switch due example, as that uses the default resolution and sharpens it, making it look pixelated. The GameBoy Player addresses that issue.
I bought a Super NT a long time ago when I could just log on and buy one casually. Then they started discontinuing the NT Mini by the time saved up enough (as a dad supporting his family I don’t have much expendable income and have to save up for these things). They’re still advertising them even though they stopped making them years ago. This makes me sad. Like why do that? That’s when I realized I was never going to buy anything from these guys again
Try adding on shipping. You're gonna hit close to $600. Trying to make extra money from "shipping" is sleazy. Priority mail is cheaper, faster, and trackable (at least anywhere in the US). Analogue Pocket is good, but Analogue is going to price themselves out just like Arcade 1-Up. It's going to be interesting to see which of these companies are still around in the next 10 years.
Their stuff is overpriced. I mean $300 more just because it's made out of aluminum? Ridiculous! Cool products though. 🤷♂️ PS- I can't stand it when companies create limited quantities of popular and sought after products!
Analogue is trying to mimic the Sneaker reseller market , like nike and adidas yeezy, limiting quantities to make people feel its something exclusive and in hi demand
@@CZpersi 🎯 you nailed it. This as exactly where they are headed if they don’t knock it off. Ayaneo will soon have their niche at a lower price and better inventory availability and similar if not close quality. I would say ambernic too but they are so busy rehashing cheap handhelds with the same outdated cheapsets .
$500USD?! That's about $685 CAD. Almost $800CAD after taxes. Screw that...
Almost had a heart attack when I saw that price upon checkout too. Good thing I turned back and said. Now
Jesus CAD taxes are wild. Guess ending people cost a lot!
“People are starting to wisen up”…
No, no they aren’t.
Nope I feel as dumb as ever and with zero sales resistance 😂
Analogue is going to sell those in 10mim
The fact that people are willing to drive Tesla Cybertrucks is proof that people aren't wisening up 😅
It's been hours since they've been up and only the indigo has sold out since that's the one color that's been in demand. Looks like even scalpers arent biting this time since trying to flip it would be impossible.
@@SKOTxFREE😂😂
For that price, it better be made out of VIBRANIUM! 🤣🤣🤣
I’d prefer adamantium.
Nah adamantium. It's be heavier but it'll never break
@@billcook4768get the Wolverine super hard shell today!
Is vibranium stronger than adamantium? Let's go, fellow nerds😂
@@CZpersi It depends on what you want as a weakness. Vibranium is vulnerable to electricity; Adamantium is susceptible to heat. Why don’t we just settle for Dargonite? lol
$500-700 to play 20+ year old games that you still have to own the physical cartridge for? *Laughs in Anbernic*
Chuckles In retroid
Giggles in odin 2
I actually thought about getting an Analogue Pocket but I got a used Anbernic from Facebook marketplace and it was actually really nice, and I only spent $60 for it preloaded with a 400gb microsd. It was the RG351V model which happened to be the same type of form factor as the Pocket.
Giggles in child's play 2
@@JayDecayAE smirks in powkiddy
lol this is right after bob wulff did a video on modding his analogue pocket with a metal shell.
Noticed that too. Interested to see the quality when people start getting them from analogue. Maybe they rushed them out.
He will buy the new one I can't wait!
If aluminum is worth $300 extra, those homeless people are getting a bad deal on their carts full of cans.
Yeah actually they are. The people they sell that aluminum to take it and sell it for way more than they pay homeless people who basically gather it for them.
😂
@@fentazen2677 Aluminum is not. Anodized aluminum is worth more because of the process it's been through. Cans are not anodized...
@@Neffets At the end of the day, it's overpriced.
@@quecreations3244 I don't have the insights of the costs to make these special casings, but no I would never pay 500 for one.
You could get a steam deck cheaper than this.
I missed when the Steam Deck was turned into an FPGA device.
@@rodmunch69no it's just able to play PC games and a fuckton of emulators for like half the price
@@runescape2710 FPGA > Emulators. That aside, if you want to emulate Game Boy and Game Boy Color, get the funny playing GBC and build your own. If you don’t care about using a steam deck, just get a steam deck. It just depends on what you want and how you want it. I personally modded everything except the board for my old GBA and got myself a flash cart and boom, the original experience, but I don’t have to spend $50-$120 for a single game.
@@rodmunch69 I have yet to hear a single example of when FPGA was more accurate in GB/C/A emulation.
Analogue bros always swear "its FPGA its more accurate" but with the relative simplicity of GB/C/A emulation there are some REALLY accurate emulators.
Fpga is not superior in any way to software emulation. It's just hardware emulation instead of software. Thinking its inherently better is just a sign that you fell for their marketing.
$499 and I can still remember getting $20 from recycling my aluminum cans.
@@quecreations3244 Are cans anodized aluminum? No, so you can't compare.
"Do we care about aluminum that much?" .... "hmmm, no."
What about aluminium?
Yes they care
I think MVG calls it al-lou-min-e-um, and then he parks his car in the garr-idge
That's how non-Americans call it. It's just correct.
Wow, this was the first time my comment got deleted a split second after posting it.
@@allesdurchprobiertyou sure it got deleted? Because I can still see it
@@demonreturns4336 Thanks for the heads up. Now I can see it again. In the meantime I educated myself on the matter. Seems this channel is set to TH-cam's auto moderation, which blocked my comment, and then the channel owner looked at the "spamfolder" and whitelisted it after a while. Happens often. But a lot of channel owners don't bother or simply get way too many comments to review the blocked ones.
this is not for gamers, this is for the people who buy supreme sweaters for 800$
Don’t forget that analog got exposed for reselling their own products on eBay at a premium
@@PanicPlayDate so?
@@user-cz5fr5yk7k really poor behavior. If they wanted more money for their products they should increase the MSRP, not secretly withhold stock to scam their own fans
@@user-cz5fr5yk7k shady
No way!!
Really? Where is the proof
Ps5? Steam deck? Wow analog must have the biggest sales margins. Robbing people blind.
You can find a used like new steam deck and mod it or even pay someone to mod it and be cheaper yet after everything else you have to buy for the pocket 😂
It's easy for me to relive the Gameboy days. I never could get one
I'm still waiting for them to release a patch for the Pocket Adapter set... currently as it stands you can't play the entire library of Neo Geo Pocket games as most games freeze to a black screen.
People actually buy this.
That's the crazy part to me.
I thought this would be another Soulja Boy scam.
I got an analogue pocket over a year ago. Being that I live in the UK even the basic model with no extras cost me close to $450. Thankfully I was able to sell a kidney from each of my two children to afford it.
Kids can still mow the lawn with 1 kidney.
Shipping costs are outrageous…
they can live with one kidney, should be grateful they were brought into this world !
$200 is already a ridiculous price for the original model. If someone just wants to play GB, GBC and GBA games, there are a bunch of handhelds out there for under $100 that can play those games and more.
It’s an FPGA system is so it near perfect emulation.
It’s an FPGA system is so it near perfect emulation.
Fpga on the pocket isnt any better than emulation on way cheaper handhelds. Fpga is just hardware emulation, software emulation is already pretty accurate. This isn't the 90s anymore.
@@pspsmallz This is uninformed.
@@stabinghobo57 Both the Pocket and the Funny Playing CGB use an inaccurate crystal oscillator, meaning they are not perfect. The Modretro Chromatic is the only FPGA handheld that would potentially be near perfect as it's using a crystal oscillator that is within the specifications of the original GB and CGB.
They're expensive because they're going after the whales right now. Once they exhaust the hardcore retro gamer market, they'll probably make a cheaper version aimed at more casual consumers. They're using the same playbook as Arcade 1Up.
That didn't end up a winning strategy for Arcade 1Up.
@@tboatrig Arcade 1UP was always garbage.
I think the aluminium is waayyy to expensive. Specialy when you buy from europe like me. With imports fees, tax and shipping they are like 750 /800 dollars a piece.
I love my original one. Buying two is actually the only good thing for people living over sees. I ordered one for me and one for my 76 year old mother who loves handhelds, split the shipping that is way to expensive in the first place. And she does not know how to order it anyway
You do know soda cans are made from aluminum, right?
I wanted to order Analogue Pocket when it _finally_ appeared on stock, only to learn that they refuse shipping to my country, which is like literally in the heart of European Union. They ship to all the surrounding countries, but mine does not exist for them, despite the fact that EU has a common customs zone. I wrote to their customer support to notify them that my country is missing and their response basically was: "We do not ship to Czechia, because we do not ship there". This was the point, when I just gave up on them.
Btw.: 499 dollars buys you, hmmm... Steam Deck Oled?
They also do not ship to Poland. I don't know why Czechia, but Poland has really bad complicated and unclear custom rules and procedures. It affects many senders, so they all just stopped shipping to Poland.
I like the Analog Pocket. I just don't like that they don't take back orders or continue to sell the other consoles. I'm not a fan of this FOMO BS. When I saw they were releasing it in aluminum and saw the price, my question is "Who the heck is this for?" People just want the system. Just make more of them like any other company does when their product is in demand. Besides, aren't aluminum shells for original Game Boy systems normally $100 even with color anodizing. Why is this a nearly $300 premium?
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Analog too expensive
My Miyoo Mini + works great
Buy a miyoo mini plus for $58 bucks. Absolute bargain. No issues. Plays gameboy games. 🎤
I agree that the aluminum Pocket costing $500 instead of $220 (the price for the regular Pocket) is highway robbery on the company part.
Analogue hates money. If they just kept the standard editions in stock, they would make more money because the Pockets are so good. I do wonder how many Pockets on eBay are actually being sold by Analogue. I bet they do.
Ah, yeah. The company that constantly sells out, and even produced during the chip shortage really hates money. Durrrrr
@@user-cz5fr5yk7kok buddy only sells out to the scalpers and resellers
@@user-cz5fr5yk7k You completely missed his point. He was saying if Analogue didn't artificially short supply their products and made enough to always keep some in stock they would make a lot more money. Instead, all the extra capital goes to scalpers on ebay selling them for double.
I feel like Analogue is turning into Apple. Their new Analogue pocket model is worth 500 bucks. You could buy a PS5 or an Xbox Series X with that money. I'm surprised that bots haven't bought the new Analogue pocket yet lol.
It's odd to compare them with Analogue. PS5 or Xbox are produced in batches of millions, and Sony and Microsoft also get your money when you buy games in their stores and from game licensing commissions. If they didn't have this, they would easily sell their consoles for $1-2K.
The Duo they made fixes all the hassles of trying to own a working Turbo Duo, and they've got a new N64 that can run original carts in 4K. Analogue's stuff isn't the cheapest, but the quality is good.
“Nobody needs two!”
Like there isn’t link cable games. Just because you are forever alone, doesn’t mean everyone is
Id just buy another anbernic for a fraction of the cost. Then not being in stock, and likely inflating their own prices, makes me not wanna buy their system when I can still get surprisingly great quality for less then $80
Limited Run Games is worse. Enough said.
I was on there mailing list for there snes version and was never able to get an order in after a couple of years picked it up on eBay for almost double asking price getting there products has always been next to zero chance very discouraging for us old school enthusiast thx for bringing this to light
I never cared for this system due to having a modded game boy color or just play my games on the GameCube player.
I don’t need it but it does look great l’ve had fun with it.
But honestly I use OLED steamdeck a lot more…
Yeah it doesn’t just play Gameboy games tho. I’m not going over the list but look it up.
@@SKOTxFREE I'm aware of what it does. I just don't have any interest. A modded gbc, jail broken 3ds and psp go is all the handhelds I need for on the go.
It's not that good as an fpga device. Mister is a way better value.
@@JessiGutierrez-zi8tu I'm jealous of your restraint.
could have sworn that this video had a different title earlier today
My biggest issue with Analogue is their shipping costs.....when I bought my Pocket a few years back it was $90 to ship to Australia, and no doubt a whole lot more today. So if I wanted one of these it would probably cost me at minimum $600 ($500+$100 shipping)...that would be close to $1000 Australian...thats an insane price (and aluminum is spelt differently to aluminium which is why we pronouce it differently :)
I would literally only pay 80 for this. Nothing more
Analogue is making another version of one of their systems for $280 more than the original version just because it is made out of aluminum, that's great. And by great, I mean *fricking* putrid. (Scott the Woz reference)
You mean the guy that owns sonic jam?
@@D0N0VANE19no, the guy who bought 90% of Wii U stock in North America
$5 dollars of aluminum...now give us $500.
I absolutely would have bought one this week if it had been the standard one. I’m not about to drop 500$ on a shiny one.
I would have happily bought most of their consoles, I tried a few times. After failing to get the Super Nt I gave up. Lost interest in the company and now I only hear about them like this. They are a shitshow of a company. I understand wanting to limit the amount of product you produce to reduce costs but when you are only producing a certain amount and hundreds of not thousands of people are missing out. That's not a smart business move, that is just leaving money on the table.
Pretty sure Retroid has an Aluminum shell handheld for half the price that plays way more
This is the 4th re-release. 1st was black and white. 2nd was glow-in-the-dark. 3rd was multiple colors. 4th was translucent colors. 5th is now the aluminum.
My local retro store just had a analogue pocket come through from a trade-in. $250 was the stores asking price.
I have zero problem with this. Buyer beware. If nobody wants it nobody will buy it.
Totally agree is a chinese made product end of the day. Christopher Taber's greed has sunk to a new low with this release. This is almost on par with Hot Glue Gun wooden neogeo. No one has asked for a 4k n64, hdmi mods are the way forward for n64. They did release products which had there place in the market enabling HDMI on nes, snes and MD era. But that's no longer the case.
Totally agree HDMI mod on a N64, with wireless retrobit brawler controller and a everdrive x7 will be all you ever need. Christopher Taber is going down for this one.
I had one of his wooden neo geo it was epensive, also covered with glue gun worst than products from aliexpress. I was completely ripped off. It had a yellow tinge display.....
RGT needs to make a micro rétro player to save us from the current Armageddon 😂
Maybe Souljah Boy is now their CEO?
Nah Souljah would have sold the consoles for cheap.
Analogue is literally the equivalent of Apple for the retro gaming scene
"No one needs 2 analogue pockets."
Ummm. I have 3 kids . . .
Fake news no one who would own an analogue would have a family.
Yeah all the kids and teenagers I know are playing 30 year old games
@@BarryRerack147you'd be surprised I know it's been a big deal that there's finally an Emulator on appstore so some are.
It’s really a niche product, get your kids a Switch Lite.
@@akr12877they would play the steam deck
A lot of Analouge simps in the comments, its overpriced you can easily get a Steamdeck or an ROG Ally and have better emulation.
$500 for that?! It only has $10 worth of aluminum in it.
I used to work in the camera industry. A plastic body DSLR cost a few dollars an aluminum DSLR costs a few hundred. It's because of all the machining. A plastic body can be pumped out of a mold. An aluminum body has to be machine drilled and lathed, placed into multiple CNC machines and has to be inspected after each part of the process.
@@DeffoZappo No sense in trying to explain that to this guy or his audience. They'd rather think they are correct than actually learn anything that might differ from what they thought.
Nintendo said “don’t buy a chinese retro handheld, but do buy a respectable $500 fpga game boy” they really said that. It’s true
Nintendo never said that source ???? You Are a liar
@@warrioroflight3489They said “analogue pocket is better than a stinky miyoo”
It was on nintendo power
Worst company in Retro gaming? Are you insane?
I agree that the price of this product is also insane, but, man, your title is hyperbolic.
A moment of silence for the Wallets of Bob Wulff and Tito from Macho Nacho productions
Analogue should be renamed to Fomologue at this point.
I bought my Analogue pocket from the 2nd market and I bought the game gear adapter from their site, but the shipping is ridiculous, 30 bucks to ship? Tf!?
"engineered to last a lifetime"
I wonder what the warranty is on these? 50+ years? I doubt it!
I remember being so stoked back in 1998 when I first saw images of the Gameboy Pocket on a magazine (I thought it was aluminum) but when I finally got one it was a huge disappointment to realize it was plastic and that the paint faded out after rough usage.
I see comments dislike them due to pricing. Retro gaming is a luxury these days, get with it.
A few months ago, I was looking or a consol to play retro games. Because I was interested in the analog at one point , I recently got a email about this limited edition aluminum version. I just laughed and dismissed the email
The “worst company in retro gaming” is a fierce competition
I’m wondering if this is to try and make up for the failure of the Turbografx 16 clone they made that didn’t sell
I agree 100% with what you said, but they are making money and they are successful. These will eventually sell out therefore they won’t even get the “message”.
The truth is every single company out there making products don’t really care about their customers. They want to sell the products so they pretend to care. At the end of the day, it’s business.
There are companies that make emulation handhelds that literally play everything the Analogue Pocket can and then some for much cheaper. I mean, $500 makes sense for a PC handheld, but not for a Game Boy on steroids.
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My Analogue Pocket docked on my 4K TV plays better than any emulation device. It is much more responsive. If you want FPGA but don't need a handheld, check out Mister project and the soon to be released clone for much cheaper. (The clone is the same hardware minus the components Mister doesn't use). The Mister can also do Sega Saturn, PS1 and they are working on N64. Why buy Analogue's N64 clone that will only do N64 when the Mister can do N64 and any system before that. The same people are working on their own cheaper and just as powerful FPGA handheld as well.
Man, you just get real hardware for way cheaper than messing with Analogue. Get yourself a RetroTink 5X along with it and it's working wonders. A flash cart on top of that as well
My childhood hockey sticks were made of aluminum. I drink a 12 pack of soda that is also stored in aluminum cans. It's not rare. My Nintendo Switch Oled cost $350... yeah this is dumb.
Analogue consoles are just too expensive
Never bought any of them.
"I'm a petty, petty person."
Yes, but are you Tom Petty of a person?
Scary that they can charge $500 for a limited edition one of a different color, when the original ones goes for $220
And the base models are overpriced...
I thought about buying one, but I just bought a Game Boy Color with an OLED. Wanting to buy an Advanced SP next. I guess indigo is everyone’s favorite color, because the indigo aluminum is now sold out.
For $500, they could have given it a SAMOLED display, higher quality audio DAC and headphone AMP, a magnetically attachable analogue stick, a more powerful FPGA for the openFPGA platform, even for the normal Pocket unit, I honestly believe when something isn't 100% available, it may as well not exist at all, I love FPGA gaming, as it really does offer the same perfect input fidelity of real hardware, and perfect 1:1 parity compatibility, Windows and Linux OS environments are just too jittery with way too much input latency, USB latency, poor video & audio timings, difficult to get working with an RGB CRT display, and so on, the MiSTer offers reference quality video & audio for both analogue CRTs and modern digital displays, both real hardware and accurate emulated MIDI & synth audio options, 0ms input response SNAC controller support with real gamepads for any console of choice, so you can play N64 games with real N64 gamepad for example and enjoy the real mechanical optical 3D analogue stick that is the best way to enjoy N64 games, it is just a beautiful and elegant piece of hardware, and with the $99 MiSTer board coming out soon, will be really accessible for everyone, so everyone can enjoy perfect reference quality legacy computer, console and arcade games up to the 5th generation with perfect input fidelity and real controllers on CRTs and OLED displays.
If its a super rare material,
pop cans are gonna be the next currency.
Any one buying a $500 analogue pocket for their kid is an idiot, this isn't for a kid. Its for a grow adult kid that has too much money lol
@stevenwasik3369too bad you can’t throw money at us to shut up
@stevenwasik3369 the country club is that way moneybags
They don’t care because they’ll eventually sell all of them lmao
RGT cutting promos on a Tuesday. You gotta love it
2 days later and still 3 available. So glad to watch Analogue lose. They are just bending people over now.
Never understood this trend with aluminum Gameboy shells and now Analogue Pockets. This is a device you hold in your bare hands to play, and stick in your pocket when not playing.
Aluminum is heavy and gets cold to the touch in a chilly room. I've also seen anuminum shells, especially colored ones, get ugly dark or light scuff and gouge marks from a few years of use. My 25 year old Gameboy Color is made of lighter weight plastic, is durable enough to withstand a kid chucking it across the room, and is comfortable to hold in any temperature room. It's also gotten enough surface scratches and wear over the years, but still looks way better than an aluminum shell after half as much wear.
Dishonorable mention to all GBA SP colorways and most DSi non-XL and New 3DS XL colorways though, for just how dang easily they scratch up and how ugly the scratches are since they're painted and the plastic under the paint is a different color. GBA SP or 3DS are still what I'm going to grab if I want to play a Gameboy or GBA game in 2024 though.
I'll just get an Anbernic handheld and emulate all these systems AND MORE besides. And spend way less than $500, or even $200.
Why charge a high price plus tax/shipping and not offer a payment plan? I honestly don’t understand. The metal probably looks gorgeous but taking it out of the house with no case to protect it is scary af 😬
Because they don’t care about you. They don’t care. There are enough people who’s willing to pay, so….😂
500 is to much 300 at most
Not getting a new one until hardware upgrade and Bluetooth audio
Everyone sings nothing but praise for the Analogue Pocket, I'm refreshed to hear someone calling this out . I passed on the AP , only because of the price really, but why would I spend that much to feel good about the way I am consuming all the same media? Looks sweet though...
All companies are doing insane things like this. Be more reasonable to cheat and use third rate roms
This is why retro gaming sucks. It 100% preys on your nostalgia.
that's dumb
@@jaidyn1376 yet its true. sorry ur blinded by ur nostalgia.
its a dumb take, its one company who actively preys on gaming nostalgia. The countless other companies who make handhelds are awesome, reasonable initial price, having frequent discounts, HAVING STOCK ALWAYS. You cannot let a trash comp like Analogue ruin the term retro gaming.
@@StopToBreathe and who’s the people that buy it?
the people that are blinded by their nostalgia.
@@StopToBreathenostalgia being a trap IS real
well damn. Watching RGT today is like looking in the mirror. I looked down and I'm wearing the same carhart shirt and a baseball cap lol
I’ve waited too long for restock, I paid the price just to finally have it
$500 for the same handheld, but it's metal? lol; How about news on that N64 console, Analogue!? You said it was coming out this year and it's almost August!
The regular one was already too expensive. It's a bad look; bad marketing, manufactured scarcity. Instead of innovating, they went to greed and exploitation.
I just bought a Megahypertech Super Pocket when it came out last year, £50 with 18 built in Taito games, and added a couple of Evercade carts for it. Device, 36 games, £82 total inc VAT with zero piracy involved.
US$60 shipping to my country for the Pocket Aluminium Edition - looks like Analogue may have stopped hiding some of the actual sticker price in the shipping (and handling) cost. The Megadrive and SNES Analogue devices would have cost me US$90 for shipping (and handling).
I suspected that they were paying for the warehouse/handling in the shipping price, or they were being stupid on "picking absolute worst case for overseas shipping prices" for most countries as a whole, and just charging everyone that high end price.
Looks like the non-Aluminium Pocket shipping price roughly a year ago was US$90 to a similar country to me (from a reddit post). Maybe they decided US$90 shipping for the US$500 Pocket was "a bit too much of an ask".
Funny thing is I might have bought an Analogue Megadrive or SNES if they had priced it US$50 more for the RRP, and didn't charge as much for the shipping.
The worst company is gaming is Ubisoft/EA if you are a PC gamer. It’s a tie.
I bought the GameBoy Player attachment for the GameCube for £0.20p and I'm sure it plays GameBoy games better than this Analogue Pocket.
You're not wrong. The graphics may be worse, but the Gameboy Player doesn't run the risk of randomly wiping your saves.
@@SurfNinjas the graphics are actually a lot better on the GameBoy Player. The system upscales the image and has a natural look on the TV, the way the game was originally intended. Looks a lot better than a game running on Switch due example, as that uses the default resolution and sharpens it, making it look pixelated. The GameBoy Player addresses that issue.
People are actually buying this overpriced junk. These people must think Aluminum is so very precious, rare and expensive.
I bought a Super NT a long time ago when I could just log on and buy one casually. Then they started discontinuing the NT Mini by the time saved up enough (as a dad supporting his family I don’t have much expendable income and have to save up for these things). They’re still advertising them even though they stopped making them years ago. This makes me sad. Like why do that? That’s when I realized I was never going to buy anything from these guys again
Don’t forget their crazy shipping charges
Try adding on shipping. You're gonna hit close to $600. Trying to make extra money from "shipping" is sleazy. Priority mail is cheaper, faster, and trackable (at least anywhere in the US). Analogue Pocket is good, but Analogue is going to price themselves out just like Arcade 1-Up. It's going to be interesting to see which of these companies are still around in the next 10 years.
Their stuff is overpriced. I mean $300 more just because it's made out of aluminum? Ridiculous! Cool products though. 🤷♂️ PS- I can't stand it when companies create limited quantities of popular and sought after products!
Analogue is trying to mimic the Sneaker reseller market , like nike and adidas yeezy, limiting quantities to make people feel its something exclusive and in hi demand
Maybe they should look on how is the sneaker reseller market doing today😂 Scalpers have ended with hundreds of boxes of unsellable merchandise.
@@CZpersi 🎯 you nailed it. This as exactly where they are headed if they don’t knock it off. Ayaneo will soon have their niche at a lower price and better inventory availability and similar if not close quality. I would say ambernic too but they are so busy rehashing cheap handhelds with the same outdated cheapsets .