MEGATech News Crowdfunding Corner – February 2018

GPD WIN 2: Handheld Console for AAA Games

If you’re into mobile gaming but the PocketSprite was too small for you, maybe the GPD WIN 2 will be more to your liking. The WIN 2 is essentially a handheld gaming PC. It’s loaded with an Intel Core m3-7Y30, Intel HD Graphics 615, 6 inches H-IPS technology, 8GB or RAM, and a 128GB SSD. Not the highest of specs, but no doubt impressive for such a compact device. It’s constructed with aluminum alloy and you’ll get 6-8 hours of battery life, depending on what you’re playing. Oh, and it runs Windows 10, so you can use it as a standard laptop if you don’t care about all that gaming nonsense, but you’d be dropping a lot of money on a very small, unnecessarily powerful laptop.

How powerful? Well in the video above, Austin Evans tries out a few games, such as Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Overwatch, and gets decent results. Then he plays Grand Theft Auto 5, which GPD claims the WIN 2 can run at maximum settings and maintain 38 frames-per-second, and he experiences around 20fps on normal settings. To be fair, this was a demo unit and not the finished product. Then again, the WIN 2 might just be biting off more than it can chew.

Still, the WIN 2 is definitely on the right track. Over three thousand backers putting up almost 2 million dollars (over a much smaller $100,000 goal) can’t be wrong. You can grab an early bird price of $649 (which seems steep) before hey ship in May and go for $899 (which is definitely steep).

Crowdfunding Corner Continues

So those are our MEGATech picks for February 2018! Go mobile with the GPD WIN 2, and then go even more mobile with the PocketSprite, and then keep it all safe with the Kevin. If you see something cool that you think should be featured in Crowdfunding Corner or if you have a campaign of your own that you’d like considered, email me at duartedylan@gmail.com with “CROWDFUNDING CORNER” in the subject line and I’ll be sure to check it out.

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