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Offers some enticing specs at a high cost
It looks as though Valve’s Steam Deck is getting some competition in the handheld gaming PC space. As first noticed by Liliputing, the OneXPlayer Mini is now available to purchase for those that want a fully-fledged PC gaming experience that’s as portable as a Nintendo Switch OLED.
Speaking of the Switch, the OneXPlayerMini has a strikingly similar form-factor, including dual thumb sticks, A/B/X/Y buttons and a directional pad. But whereas the Switch’s 7-inch OLED display features a 720p display, the OneXPlayer Mini flexes with a 7-inch 1080p IPS display.
The 1.3-pound OneXPlayer Mini is also equipped with dual bumpers, dual linear triggers, dual speakers, and a 10,455 mAh lithium-ion battery. An aluminum heatsink, dual copper heat pipes, and a single fan cool the internal hardware. There are two USB-C ports and a single USB-A port along with the requisite headphone jack for wired connectivity. Wireless communication is taken care of with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 radios.
The base 512GB SKU will set you back $1,039. Stepping up to the 1TB version raises the price to $1,179, while the flagship 2TB option goes for $1,370. These prices include a 17 percent “launch discount” offered by OneXPlayer that is only valid for the next 22 hours. After the period expires, pricing jumps to $1,259, $1,399, and $1,599 respectively.
The device that the OneXPlayer Mini will be most compared to will undoubtedly be the upcoming Valve Steam Deck, which is scheduled to launch in February 2022. The Steam Deck offers a similar 7-inch form-factor but is powered by an AMD Zen 2-based SoC paired with an RDNA 2 GPU (8 compute units).
Not only does the Steam Deck have the gaming community abuzz given its gaming pedigree, but it is also far cheaper than the OneXPlayer Mini. The base Steam Deck with 16GB of LPDDR5 and 64GB eMMC rings in at $399, while the 256GB and 512GB SSD configs come in at $529 and $649, respectively. So while the OneXPlayer Mini looks attractive in its own right, it’ll be a tough fight against the value proposition offered by the Steam Deck.
Brandon Hill is a senior editor at Tom’s Hardware. He has written about PC and Mac tech since the late 1990s with bylines at AnandTech, DailyTech, and Hot Hardware. When he is not consuming copious amounts of tech news, he can be found enjoying the NC mountains or the beach with his wife and two sons.
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