/vr/ - Retro Games

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It's called razor and blades business model. The reason OEM consoles/handhelds are cheaper than PCs of similar performance (at least they used to be, not sure how the business is today) is because the companies behind said consoles turn great profits from the licensed games optimized and sold for those systems - probably greater than what the consoles cost. That's why nintendo could make a wacky dual screen handheld - it was ballsy but the games sold for it guaranteed the company profited.
The chinks have absolutely no way to profit from games - all their users pirate games for first party consoles - if they make a dual screen chinkheld, it will be good for DS games but automatically subpar for all other systems - why would they produce something like that? It's not like they get money from DS games being sold, they have little market incentive to make a cheap dedicated DS emulator device if they can simply continue to do the two size factors(vertical and horizontal) that they do so far and let their users get the most versatile library (further argument is people still use chinkhelds for emulating DS, it looks retarded like that but it works, so all the more reason not to make such devices)
Either very few chink versions of such a device or they release something like analogue pocket - that way you end up with a hipster device probably more expensive than a used DS(or even a new one)

If you really love to play DS library (like I do) I'd suggest just buying a used DS+flashcart/CFW like I did, the ones imported from Japan seem cheaper and the firmware makes language of console obsolete.
You can also get 2ds or 3ds if that library seems interesting, I got Dsi xl for the amazing screen.
Both families (3d and original ds) can still use download play, local multi, wifi multiplayer(thanks to wiimmfi/pretendo restoring servers), even on pirated roms thanks to newest CFW versions