Crowdfunding campaign for handheld gaming PC, AYA NEO, announced

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As reported earlier, the company behind the AMD-powered handheld gaming PC, AYA NEO, said that it would consider a crowdfunding campaign for the international market. The device, in the form of a Founder Edition, was already available in limited quantities in China in late 2020, priced at 3999 CN¥ (~$605) for the 500 GB model and 4599 CN¥ (~$756) for 1TB model. Now gamers abroad will be able to get their own unit as the company announced an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.

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The campaign page is already live, allowing those interested to sign up to get early access and a special discount. The company confirmed that their campaign will launch in "early February" when they will also sell accessories including a carrying case, screen protector and docking station. However, an exact launch date is yet to be revealed . The pricing has also yet to be officially revealed (the company said that they "guarantee that it's a good deal"), but has been rumored to start at a super early bird price of $699. The estimated time of delivery is in April and those who miss the campaign will also have the opportunity to purchase the AYA NEO at a different retail price.

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For me a success business is something you can live on, which means you can work only on that alone and not need to do another side job to keep going at the end of the month, then sure i would call it a small success since they could live just by doing GPD pcs, but they cant , therefore its just a part time project to gain afew thousands and not a successful business imo, same way i could buy a 3d printer and sell stuff on facebook or whatever and gain afew thousands at the end of the year, but i wouldn't call it a successful business since i still needed my day job to get by.
According to your criteria a product is a failure if the makers can't immediately retire off of the profits :lol:
We can't talk about Aya-Neo's success (or lack thereof) yet, but the GPD Win is not a side hustle that the GPD team did in their garage to earn some extra cash, handhelds are their core product. The first GPD Win was successful enough to warrant development of further devices (four in total), so it was a success for the company despite the fact it didn't sell millions of units.

So getting back to my original point, that the device can still be a success even if it doesn't come close to the Switch sales, it's a different device for a different, very small, very particular market and it's not fair to compare the two.
 

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According to your criteria a product is a failure if the makers can't immediately retire off of the profits :lol:
We can't talk about Aya-Neo's success (or lack thereof) yet, but the GPD Win is not a side hustle that the GPD team did in their garage to earn some extra cash, handhelds are their core product. The first GPD Win was successful enough to warrant development of further devices (four in total), so it was a success for the company despite the fact it didn't sell millions of units.

So getting back to my original point, that the device can still be a success even if it doesn't come close to the Switch sales, it's a different device for a different, very small, very particular market and it's not fair to compare the two.
lol switch selling almost 80 millions comparing to something that sells 4000 units at best obviously its not fair...

but the way you speak that it is a success one would think it should a couple millions at least and not 4000 units, and you said it yourself they are on the 4 iteration, if they cant live of a product they are on the fourth model yet than i dont see it ever being a staple in the industry, heck i think steam boxes and ouya sold way more units lol.
 

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but the way you speak that it is a success one would think it should a couple millions at least and not 4000 units, and you said it yourself they are on the 4 iteration, if they cant live of a product they are on the fourth model yet than i dont see it ever being a staple in the industry, heck i think steam boxes and ouya sold way more units lol.
Following that logic the iPhone is not successful because it's on its 12th iteration already. If it was successful they wouldn't have to release new models every year :ha:
 

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Following that logic the iPhone is not successful because it's on its 12th iteration already. If it was successful they wouldn't have to release new models every year :ha:
lol are you for real? the iphone sells millions and millions of units ...
if the iphone 12 only sold 5000 units then it would have been a failure...

what i mean is if a company is already on the 4 model of something and its still selling only 4000 units something isn't very popular or profitable.
 

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lol are you for real? the iphone sells millions and millions of units ...
if the iphone 12 only sold 5000 units then it would have been a failure...

what i mean is if a company is already on the 4 model of something and its still selling only 4000 units something isn't very popular or profitable.

This is niche product for a niche audience. Clearly it is financially worthwhile considering GPD keep on producing these computers, the fact they've generated millions probably puts them in a solid position. Not everything needs to sell millions to be worthwhile.
 

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that's the one single example, and the reason the prices are so bloated, if i wanted to pay $700 for an overpriced low end tablet, i'd buy an apple product
That's YOU. Nobody said this product is for everyone and will be as successful as the Switch is. But there obviously is an market for it since way more people bought it even at its current price point than the developer anticipated.
And no, this whole thread is talking about Aya Neo which in other words mean that GPD Win is no longer the only product on the market anymore. Aya Neo sold out its founder edition way faster than the dev anticipated and the dev said before that they would only think about releasing it overseas if the product is successful in China, which it was.
That's all the point we are trying to make. Stop making it all about your personal preference.

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i guess it depends on what you consider success, i haven't found any sales data how many did each iteration sold?
Success in a capitalist market means profit. Nobody would make 4 products for the same series if it was not profitable (win 1, 2, ,3 and Max), and the fact that the current product exceeded crowdfunding goal by 8330%, all means that this product line is successful or it wouldn't have continued.
 
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That's YOU. Nobody said this product is for everyone and will be as successful as the Switch is. But there obviously is an market for it since way more people bought it even at its current price point than the developer anticipated.
And no, this whole thread is talking about Aya Neo which in other words mean that GPD Win is no longer the only product on the market anymore. Aya Neo sold out its founder edition way faster than the dev anticipated and the dev said before that they would only think about releasing it overseas if the product is successful in China, which it was.
That's all the point we are trying to make. Stop making it all about your personal preference.
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you're the one that said it was my personal preference lol, chill. you seem fairly upset that i pointed out what this thing truly is, an overpriced low end tablet
 

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what i mean is if a company is already on the 4 model of something and its still selling only 4000 units something isn't very popular or profitable.
Yeah, that's what "niche" means.

The 4000 number is just the Kickstarter/Indiegogo preorders BTW, they also sold through traditional retailers after the launch.

Point is, the device is successful enough not only to keep the company is business, but to sprout successors too. They wouldn't keep doing it if it wasn't profitable.
 
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they have millions of employers and are all over the world, lots of people live working for uber alone, so i would call it a success even if the company looses money here and there, people working for them for years are making a living and the company is expanding, the more you expand the costs get higher, heck uber reached Portugal like a year or 2 ago and we are a small country, so for a company to reach here it needs to be a huge company, if it makes or looses money depends on many things they do behind the curtains, sometimes they do huge investments that take years to make a profit on expansions and deals, they also get charged much less taxes when taking a loss since they are investing in the business and so on.
it's not that they loose money here and there, it's that the investors dont get a return until years later, they may drop eventually, you know why youtube networks practically dont exist anymore? because investors were keeping them alive dropping money into them, realized they were never going to be profitable, and stopped supporting them, they do this because on the chance they do end up backing something revolutionary, the profits are massive
 

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Consoles succeed because they're specially designed for the form factor. Would be curious to see how Windows holds up on these devices with day to day use from a usability perspective
 
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Consoles succeed because they're specially designed for the form factor. Would be curious to see how Windows holds up on these devices with day to day use from a usability perspective
you could always configure Steam to both autostart and start in big picture, so you don't really see the desktop and get a console experience
 
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you're the one that said it was my personal preference lol, chill. you seem fairly upset that i pointed out what this thing truly is, an overpriced low end tablet
LOL I'm not upset about what you said about the product, I'm not even supporting or buying it, it's just your repeated refusal to acknowledge facts irked me. All I'm saying is that what you stated about there's no market for this product is laughably wrong because the facts are right in front of your nose yet you are just in denial. You can call it a low end tablet however you want, it doesn't stop a bunch of others from getting it. And I would be pretty impressed with a low end tablet running CP2077 at 30 FPS, but whatever.
 
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LOL I'm not upset about what you said about the product, I'm not even supporting or buying it, it's just your repeated refusal to acknowledge facts irked me. All I'm saying is that what you stated about there's no market for this product is laughably wrong because the facts are right in front of your nose yet you are just in denial. You can call it a low end tablet however you want, it doesn't stop a bunch of others from getting it. And I would be pretty impressed with a low end tablet running CP2077 at 30 FPS, but whatever.
when did i say there was no market? if you had read the entire thread i literally said that i've always wanted a GPD win, but always gawked at the insane price they (still) go for, even if i wanted the first gen
 
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Tired of people copying the switch design or any other popular stuff. Why can't they come with their original items for once.
The Switch design isn't a Nintendo design, I think SEGA and NEO Geo have the one up on that, so anybody can use this design all they want. I just wish that it would have a big screen adapter like the Switch Dock.
 
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The Switch design isn't a Nintendo design, I think SEGA and NEO Geo have the one up on that, so anybody can use this design all they want. I just wish that it would have a big screen adapter like the Switch Dock.
It has a USB-C port, so you can simply use a USB-C -> DP or USB-C -> HDMI cable to connect it to a TV/monitor if you wanted to, just need a $5 cable.
 

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