Steam Deck too dinky for you? All the time wished you could possibly buy a handheld gaming PC able to obscuring your whole head? Then Acer would possibly simply have the reply. The corporate has unveiled its new Nitro Blaze 11, sporting a ten.95-inch display and chunky type issue testing the bounds of what would possibly moderately be thought-about a ‚moveable‘ gaming system.
Acer’s Nitro Blaze 11 is, it is truthful to say, a little bit of a beast, measuring 36.4 cm x 17.1 cm x 1.59 cm and weighing in at 1050g – roughly the equal of 1.5 Steam Decks. It is unclear if these figures embody the machine’s two chunky removable controllers – Acer’s press launch is obscure on that time – but it surely’s definitely not what you’d name an understated system. Judging by the promo photos, it might comfortably be used to serve nibbles between gaming classes too.
On the constructive aspect, its hefty body boasts some respectable innards. That 10.95-inch display, for example, is a 120 Hz WQXGA 2560 x 1600 contact show able to as much as 500 nits of brightness, and it additionally packs in an AMD Ryzen 8040HS processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and as much as 2TB of NVMe SSD storage. That is on high of a built-in kickstand and people aforementioned removable controllers, which now characteristic again buttons. And if that appeals, you may be a minimal price ticket of $1099.99, relying in your storage necessities.
However for those who’re available in the market for one thing a bit extra
discreet – and a bit cheaper – there’s additionally Acer’s new Nitro Blaze 8, which options an 144 Hz 8.8-inch display and weighs in at a extra modest 720g. This one measures 30.5 cm x 13.4 cm x 2.2 cm (controllers are positively included right here, seeing as they don’t seem to be removable) and prices $899.99. Each machines embody three months of Xbox Sport Move and are scheduled to launch in Q2 this 12 months.
Acer’s expanded Nitro Blaze line-up will not make use of AMDs newly introduced trio of next-gen Ryzen Z-series APUs – designed for handheld gaming PCs – however Digital Foundry has a bit extra to say about these elsewhere on Eurogamer for those who’re curious.
