Ayn Odin review: The most comprehensive retro handheld yet | Engadget

The premise is simple, to bring the aforementioned venn diagram together and make a more cohesive retro (and even modern game) handheld.The Odin gets off to a good start by effectively mimicking the Switch Lite form factor. As for battery capacity, the 6,000 mAh model I tested was good for around six hours of play on systems like the PS2/GameCube and, given everyone seems to test this game, about half that time with something like Genshin Impact.This puts the Odin in an interesting spot. Oh, and Android does have good games of its own, so you can play those natively too.As much as the Odin is aiming to feel like a complete console rather than a single-board PC in a box running apps, there’s a bit of a problem. There’s also a thriving subreddit that has spreadsheets dedicated to listing which games are (or aren’t) compatible and how well they perform on the Odin.There are two areas where you don’t need to worry about compatibility: Android gaming and streaming services like Stadia and Game Pass. Ultimately what you’re buying with the Odin is a bespoke gaming handheld that merely has the capability to run these apps, there’s no real promise of performance (or really control thereof). It also adds in the option for ethernet and USB-C/SATA for things like SSDs (more modern games take up a lot more space after all).Of course, given it’s running Android, you can do anything with the Odin that you can do with a phone or tablet.