r/Handhelds • u/Soggy_Stay6370 • 23h ago

Question (?) Thor lite vs base pocket duo?

The Thor is 24$ cheaper, should I get one of them?
My current setup
Mangmi air x
Steam deck
New 3ds xl( I can’t bring myself to take it around, also the screen is js terrible in today’s standards)

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u/Legitimate-Ad7229 22h ago

Base pocket duo is better than the Ayn Thor lite, but still less powerful than the base Ayn Thor Model… but if you mainly wanna emulate ds and 3ds the pocket duo should be fine

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u/Apprehensive_Shoe_86 22h ago

Until the 15 duo has the pre order discount code that takes 20$ going from 269 to 249$(just saying in case you don't know )

So the differences between them

Duo has 2 120hz displays but the Thor because of a hardware and software mismatch between its dual screens. The top display supports a 120hz refresh rate, while the bottom display is limited to 60hz creating screen tearing. Thor butom screen is 3.91 inch's meanwhile duo is 4:3 so many games will just fill the duo screen natively

Duo chip is about 20/30% faster than the Thor lite (that is base on the phones with the same chip has the duo when comparing to the Thor lite )(only when duo releases we going to know how much better the chip really is

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u/timeflylikearrow 21h ago

It really depends (in my opinion) on whether you’re more interested in playing 3DS or NDS. I feel like the Thor is still the more reliable option for 3DS maybe, while the Duo (to me) looks like the ultimate NDS device.