No one needs this cryptocurrency-powered Steam Deck competitor

Everyone knows, the absolute best value add to a power hungry mobile device is the ability to use that power to inefficiently mine some random junk cryptocurrency.

So I hope it's that. (No I didn't read the article. There's no version of this that isn't a scam.)

imagine being a year deep into the NFT eternal winter and thinking a consumer hardware product is a great business idea.

You can currently get almost any handheld emulator device from $20-$200, or just buy a controller that's designed to hold your phone.

There are no good NFT games, and nobody wants to pay $500 to own an AI generated knock-off pokemon just to get started.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Playtron and Mysten Labs have announced the SuiPlay0X1, a new Steam Deck-alike that is being billed as "the world's first blockchain native handheld games console."

BREAKING: announcement from onstage at #SuiBasecamp: we’re excited to share the first handheld gaming device with native Web3 capabilities – the SuiPlay0X1, powered by @PLAYTR0N!

For the SuiPlay 0X1, that means tight integration with the Sui blockchain, which claims lower fees, faster transaction speeds, and easier scalability than some other crypto coins.

Playtron is "attempting to extract the PC gaming ecosystem from Windows and recontextualize in our own operating system," CEO Kirt McMaster told VentureBeat.

Maybe Sui has fixed these problems, but so far, evidence suggests that cryptocurrency is still more useful as a speculative asset than an everyday payment option.

Without even vague gestures toward key details like specs, price, or planned release date (beyond "2025"), it's hard to even evaluate how the 0X1 would work as a gaming device.

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I guess the market for this is people who… um… it’s for someone that… uh…

Who the fuck would buy this?

Like, is it for people who don’t know about literally any other PC handheld?