Anbernic Reveals Another Game Boy-Style Handheld, The RG406V

Great another bloody one.
It uses the GB form factor and ...that's all I have to say about it really.

This handheld bus is getting really really crowded.

Options are nice, but surely Anbernic must be cannibalizing its own market at this point. It must take some amount of R&D to churn out each one of these designs, and they can't all be mega-sellers when the market is so crowded. I don't understand their strategy.

I think they'd benefit from maintaining a few clearly delineated product lines with consistent feature sets (orientation, size, compatibility, etc) and just updating those lines on an annual basis.

I’d be interested in seeing a review

"ChonkyBoy"

This is getting ridiculous.

There's just way too many different handheld systems coming out these days imo, especially retro-focused ones.

@Razieluigi You can't cannibalize your own market. They could end up with too much back stock, but I think they're selling everything they have, at which point you want your products to be competing with each other, that's the ideal scenario.

There is going to be a point where systems like this are just going to become waste. It gets even worse when the same manufacturers are the ones releasing several systems a year very close in what they aim to do that all look different. I personally think it would be better if they had two or three systems that aimed to do different consoles as their highest point and then updated them yearly but kept a similar design each time. If you at times are creating your own competition you are only confusing your own potential customers.

@Poodlestargenerica Cannibalize is arguably the wrong term, but any sale of one unit likely prevents the sale of another one since most people don't need a whole slew of these things.

And since it costs money to develop each new unit, this winds up seeming like an inefficient business model to me, pouring resources into multiple products that all preclude the sale of the others. So I disagree that having your own products competing with each other is a desirable scenario at all, much less an "ideal" one.

Obviously Anbernic is doing well enough to keep churning these things out, and good on them. I have an RG Nano and I do like it (even if it's a bit of a novelty). But this can't be sustainable in the long run.

@Razieluigi Yeah I definitely don't love their business model. But as long as they're selling their own stock, then competition among their own stuff is ideal, unless that competition stops their own stuff from competing with other people's stuff. Which at this point they might be doing, and yes you're right cannibalize isn't the right word for that, but I get what you mean. However they do have a large enough market share that I have no idea if it even matters for them.

On this form factor an android device with better specs is always welcome.

Yet another one, and their quality is always spotty at best (from any of the companies). The naming scheme is also terrible and impossible to figure out which is what unless if you perform web searches and deep dive.

I think I'll wait to see what Taki Udon's portable MiSTer is like before deciding on any classic gaming focused handheld.

I've got an Odin 2 Max and an RG35XX SP - can't go wrong with that combo in my opinion!