That means you can bounce between Pokémon Red, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons and Advance Wars on the same bus journey. The handheld accepts original Game Boy cartridges, but also those released for the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance. Analogue PocketĪt first glance, the Analogue Pocket looks like a new version of Nintendo’s iconic Game Boy Pocket from the mid-90s.

We can’t guarantee that any of them will be good (just look how the Ouya turned out), but at least one of them could leave a smile on your face. If you fall into that camp, read on for our shortlist of ‘alternative consoles’ due in 2021. The sort that loves sifting through Itch.io and CRT TV listings on eBay. Instead, they’ll be appealing to people who love retro classics and indie gems as much as the latest blockbuster. None of them will have new launch titles from major publishers like Ubisoft, Capcom and EA, either. They won’t have the power to match the PS5 or Xbox Series X. A bunch of weird and hopefully wonderful consoles are scheduled to come out next year. The new hardware frenzy isn’t over, though.

Countless ‘triple-A’ video games including Halo Infinite have been pushed back to 2021, after all. Still, it’s a minor miracle that neither Sony nor Microsoft was forced to delay their next-gen launch. Both companies are struggling with stock shortages at the moment and a number of user-reported hardware issues. Sony, meanwhile, released the PlayStation 5 and a cheaper Digital Edition that doesn’t come with a disc drive. Microsoft launched the Xbox Series X, a powerful obelisk packing a 12-teraflop GPU, and the smaller Series S, which can run games natively at 1440p resolution. Despite the pandemic, it’s been a pretty great year for video game hardware.

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