Retroid Pocket 5 vs 6 (2026): 70% CPU for $45 More

There is a particular kind of disappointment reserved for the person who buys a piece of consumer electronics one quarter too early, and a particular kind of smugness for the person who buys it one quarter too late and on sale. The Retroid Pocket 5 and the Retroid Pocket 6 are, between them, a study in both. One is a 2024 flagship that spent 2026 quietly becoming a bargain. The other is a 2026 flagship that spent its launch window getting more expensive, not less. Somewhere between the two sits the handheld you should actually buy.

This is a long look at both machines — the silicon, the panels, the batteries, the prices, and the specific, unglamorous question of what each device actually renders on its screen when you sit down to play a game. Along the way we will correct a few things the marketing copy got wrong, because the marketing copy always gets something wrong, and this generation's copy got at least three things wrong badly enough to matter.

The Verdict, Up Front

I do not believe in burying the conclusion under two thousand words of throat-clearing, so here it is: the Retroid Pocket 6 is the better machine by every meaningful margin, and if you are buying new in 2026 with a $45 gap between them, you should buy the 6 and stop reading. The interesting question — the one worth two thousand words — is what happens when that gap is not $45, or when your ceiling is a PlayStation 2 and not a Switch.

The short version

The Pocket 6 is roughly 70 percent faster on the CPU, close to twice as fast on the GPU, ships a 120Hz panel where the 5 shipped 60Hz, carries a larger 6,000mAh battery, and swaps a cheap rotor rumble motor for a linear one. It is also heavier, a touch larger, and — after a mid-2026 price hike we will get to — no longer the cheap darling it launched as. The Pocket 5 is the same physical class of device one generation back, now living out its retirement on the sale rack. Neither is a bad handheld. Only one of them is the handheld I would tell a stranger to buy without a follow-up question.

What changed between generations

Generationally, this is a clean, legible upgrade rather than a reinvention. Qualcomm's Snapdragon 865 becomes the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. LPDDR4x memory becomes LPDDR5x. The 60Hz AMOLED becomes a 120Hz AMOLED. The 5,000mAh battery grows to 6,000mAh with 27W fast charging bolted on. Wi-Fi 6 becomes Wi-Fi 7. What does not change is telling: the same 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED size, the same Hall-effect analog sticks, the same 2TB microSD ceiling, the same Android 13 out of the box. Retroid kept the recipe and reheated the oven.

The rating

My rating, for the record: the Retroid Pocket 6 earns an 8 out of 10 — an excellent, slightly conservative handheld that does the sensible thing at every fork in the road. The Retroid Pocket 5 earns a 6.5 out of 10 at full 2026 MSRP, rising to about 7.5 out of 10 if you find it under roughly $150, which you increasingly can. Brandon Saltalamacchia at RetroDodo landed almost exactly where I did, scoring the 6 an 8.4 out of 10 and calling it a “remarkable $250 Android handheld for those wanting a portable powerhouse,” before adding the sting: “the only disappointment comes from knowing that Retroid can do better here.” That tension — competent, complete, and just slightly bored with itself — is the whole story of the Pocket 6.

Two Generations, One Shell

To understand why the choice between these two is genuinely difficult, you have to understand that Retroid is not iterating a phone here. It is iterating a shape — a horizontal, dual-stick, shoulder-buttoned slab that has barely changed silhouette in three product cycles. The Pocket 5, the Pocket 6, and the short-lived Pocket G2 are close enough physically that you could hand a stranger all three and they would struggle to sort them by year. The differences are inside.

The Retroid Pocket 5 (September 2024)

The Pocket 5 arrived in September 2024 at $199 and was, for roughly a year, the most sensible Android handheld you could buy. It ran the Snapdragon 865 — Qualcomm's 2020 flagship silicon, a 7nm part with an Adreno 650 GPU — paired with 8GB of LPDDR4x memory and 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage. It gave you a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED at 60Hz, a 5,000mAh battery, proper Hall-effect sticks, and DisplayPort output over USB-C. In a category that had spent years shipping mushy potentiometer sticks and washed-out LCDs, the Pocket 5 felt like an adult had signed off on it. The 865 was four years old at launch, but four-year-old flagship silicon is still flagship silicon, and it cleared everything up to and including a respectable slice of the PlayStation 2 library.

The Retroid Pocket 6 (revealed 2025, shipped 2026)

The Pocket 6 is where the brief you may have read online starts to drift from reality, so let me be precise. Retroid revealed the device and opened pre-orders in late October 2025, not January 2026. Pre-order pricing was $209 for the 8GB/128GB model and $259 for a 12GB/256GB model, with retail set at $229 and $279 respectively. The first batch of units began shipping in January 2026, with a second batch following in March — and it is that January ship date, not any announcement, that gets miscited as the “release.” Under the hood: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, a 4nm part with the Adreno 740 GPU, up to 12GB of LPDDR5x, a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED pushed to 120Hz, a 6,000mAh battery with 27W charging, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.3, and 4K60 DisplayPort output. It is, on paper, the Pocket 5's ambitions with two extra years of silicon poured into them.

The G2 sideshow, and why it is already gone

You cannot tell this story cleanly without the Retroid Pocket G2, which crashed the party in October 2025 at $199 pre-order, $219 retail — the Pocket 5's exact shell rebuilt around Qualcomm's odd little Snapdragon G2 Gen 2 gaming chip. It was a fine device that never made sense, wedged between the 5 and the 6 with almost no price daylight on either side. The market agreed: Retroid discontinued the G2 on March 16, 2026, roughly five months after launch, a casualty of the same memory-pricing crisis that would soon reshape the whole lineup. Ban at Retro Handhelds put the verdict plainly in his review: “if it were my money, would I buy the G2? No.” If you are cross-shopping it, I have a full breakdown of the Pocket 6 against the now-dead G2, and the short answer is that the G2's disappearance makes this a two-horse race again.

The Spec Sheet, Line by Line

Specifications are where handheld reviews go to become unreadable, so I will do the tedious part once, in a table, and then tell you which three rows matter.

The full comparison

Where the Pocket 6 pulls ahead

Three rows carry the entire argument. The SoC row is the reason the 6 exists — the leap from an Adreno 650 to an Adreno 740 is what unlocks GameCube at 3x and PlayStation 2 without a prayer. The refresh rate row is the reason the device feels newer the instant you pick it up, even before you launch anything. And the battery row is the quiet MVP: an extra 1,000mAh plus 27W charging turns “plug it in overnight” into “plug it in over lunch.” Everything else on the sheet is a rounding error by comparison.

Where the Pocket 5 holds serve

Read the table again and notice how many rows are identical. Same screen size. Same Hall sticks. Same 2TB microSD ceiling. Same Android 13. The 5 is even the lighter device by about 40 grams, which your wrists will register during a three-hour JRPG session in bed. If your library tops out at the sixth console generation — PlayStation 1, Nintendo 64, Dreamcast, PSP, light GameCube — the 865 already clears it, and every advantage the 6 holds is spent on ceilings you will never touch. That is the case for the 5, and it is not a weak one.

The Silicon: 865 vs 8 Gen 2

If you take one technical idea away from this review, make it this: emulation performance is not linear with clock speed, and the gap between these two chips is wider than the raw benchmark suggests once you account for what each one is asked to do.

Geekbench and the honest 70 percent

Retroid's own marketing describes the 8 Gen 2 as delivering “over 50 percent more power” than the 865, which is technically true and quietly undersells the part. In Geekbench 6, the Pocket 5's 865 posts a single-core score of about 1,176; the Pocket 6's 8 Gen 2 posts about 1,985. That is a 69 percent single-core uplift, and the multi-core gap is wider still. When a manufacturer's marketing is more conservative than the benchmarks, you are usually looking at a genuine generational jump rather than a spec-sheet massage. The 865 remains a competent chip — you can read its full pedigree on the Qualcomm Snapdragon systems-on-chip list — but it is 2020 silicon being asked to do 2026 work.

The GPU: Adreno 650 versus Adreno 740

The CPU gap is the headline; the GPU gap is the one you will actually feel. The Adreno 740 in the Pocket 6 is close to twice as fast as the Adreno 650 in the Pocket 5 in raster workloads, and emulation of sixth-generation consoles is a GPU-bound problem far more than a CPU-bound one. Doubling the pixel budget is the difference between rendering GameCube at native resolution and rendering it at 3x, which on a 1080p panel is the difference between “that is clearly an emulator” and “that looks like it was made for this screen.” The Adreno line's history and driver lineage — which becomes very relevant in a moment — is documented on the Adreno Wikipedia page.

Why the raw numbers lie

Here is the part the spec sheet cannot tell you. The 8 Gen 2 has been shipping in flagship phones since late 2022, which means it has years of driver optimization behind it — including the mature open-source Turnip Vulkan drivers that the emulation community leans on hard. HandheldRank made this point bluntly when comparing the 6 to the G2: the 8 Gen 2 “has years of driver optimization,” while newer, exotic GPUs “lack that maturity.” Add the Pocket 6's active cooling into the mix, and the practical gap between these two chips under a sustained emulation load is larger than a thirty-second benchmark run implies. The 865 does not throttle catastrophically, but it does not have the thermal or driver headroom to chase the ceilings the 8 Gen 2 reaches. Numbers measure a sprint; emulation is a marathon.

The Panel: 60Hz vs 120Hz

Both devices carry a 5.5-inch 1080p AMOLED, and both panels are genuinely lovely — deep blacks, no meaningful backlight bleed, the kind of contrast that flatters a well-mastered 16-bit sprite. Saltalamacchia called the Pocket 6's display “beautiful…one I simply cannot fault,” and I will not argue with him. The difference between the two is refresh rate, and the honest assessment of what that buys you is more nuanced than the box implies.

120Hz where it actually matters

The Pocket 6's 120Hz panel is a real, tangible upgrade — for the Android UI, for native Android games, and for the general sense that the device is not fighting you. Menus scroll like glass. Web browsing on the thing feels current. If you use these handhelds as pocket Android devices between emulation sessions — and many people do — 120Hz is a quality-of-life win you notice every single day. It is the single feature most responsible for the 6 feeling like a newer product the moment it wakes up.

The borderless design and the linear motor

Two smaller refinements deserve a mention because they compound. The Pocket 6 adopts a near-borderless front, trimming the bezels the 5 wore, which makes a same-size screen feel more modern in the hand. And Retroid finally replaced the cheap rotor vibration motor — the buzzy pager-style rumble that has haunted budget handhelds for a decade — with a proper linear vibration motor. If you have never felt the difference between a rotor and a linear actuator, it is the difference between a phone from 2013 and a phone from 2023: crisper, tighter, less of a drone and more of a tap. It is a small thing that signals Retroid sweating details it used to ignore.

Does 120Hz help emulation? Mostly no

Now the deflating truth. Almost nothing in your retro library will use 120Hz, because almost nothing in your retro library runs above 60Hz — the vast majority of it is locked to the 50 or 60Hz output of the hardware it was written for. A GameCube game is a 60Hz (or 30fps) experience whether your panel refreshes 60 times a second or 120. There are narrow exceptions — certain arcade titles, some homebrew, high-refresh native Android games — but if your reason for wanting the Pocket 6 is “120Hz will make my SNES games smoother,” recalibrate. The panel is a better device experience, not a better retro experience. The retro upgrade lives entirely in the silicon.

What Each One Actually Plays

This is the section that matters, and it is the section where the research floating around this product is most polluted, so I am going to be exact. A handheld is not its Geekbench score; it is the list of games it runs well. Here is that list, honestly, for both machines.

PlayStation 2, GameCube, Wii — the sweet spot

The sixth console generation is where the money is, and it is where the two devices genuinely diverge. On the Pocket 6, PlayStation 2 runs at 1.5x to 2x native resolution through AetherSX2 and its NetherSX2 fork, GameCube runs at 3x native through Dolphin, and Wii lands around 2x to 3x. Saltalamacchia confirmed the PS2 figures in his review — “at 1.5x and 2x native resolution” — and put GameCube “at 3x native resolution.” The Pocket 5 plays the same systems, but from a lower shelf: PS2 at roughly native resolution with per-game tinkering, GameCube at 1x to 2x with occasional dips in the demanding titles. Both are playable; only one is comfortable. For the deep pedigree of the library the 6 unlocks, the Hardcore Gaming 101 PlayStation 2 overview is the reference — this is the console whose back catalog justifies the whole exercise.

Switch, 3DS, and the driver catch-22

Nintendo Switch emulation is the clearest win for the Pocket 6, and it is a win driven entirely by the driver maturity I flagged earlier. HandheldRank, comparing the 6 to the G2, did not hedge: “the RP6 wins here, and it's not close.” The 8 Gen 2's mature Turnip drivers run a curated set of Switch titles at genuinely playable framerates, where the Pocket 5's 865 manages a smaller, glitchier selection. The 3DS story is similar — the 6 upscales cleanly to 2x or 3x, the 5 sits closer to native. There is a real catch here for the exotic-chip crowd: stock GPU drivers can glitch Switch rendering, third-party Turnip drivers fix the glitches but can tank performance, and you spend your evening in settings menus. On the 8 Gen 2, that catch is largely already solved. On lesser silicon, it is a lifestyle. If you are going to live in this world, my walkthrough of which RetroArch cores to install will save you a weekend.

The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 myth

Now the correction I promised. You may have read that the Pocket 6 “runs nearly all PC ports from the PS3 and Xbox 360 eras.” It does not. This is false, and it is the kind of false that gets people to spend $244 expecting something impossible. RPCS3 (PlayStation 3) and Xenia (Xbox 360) are heavyweight, x86-oriented emulators that reduce even powerful desktop PCs to a sweat; on a mobile Snapdragon, they are a slideshow when they boot at all. The Pocket 6 is a sixth-generation-and-earlier machine: PS2 at 1.5x–2x, GameCube and Wii up to 3x, 3DS upscaled, and a select slice of Switch. Treat any “PS3-capable” or “360-capable” claim about this class of device as marketing fiction. Seventh-generation home-console emulation on a handheld is a job for an x86 machine, which is a different — and far more expensive — conversation.

While we are being precise: emulation itself is legal, and has been settled law in the United States for a quarter-century. In Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. v. Connectix Corp., 203 F.3d 596 (9th Cir. 2000), the Ninth Circuit found that reverse-engineering a console's BIOS to build an emulator was a fair use, calling the resulting Virtual Game Station “modestly transformative.” The emulator is legal; the BIOS and the games you feed it are your own problem, and the ethics of preservation are a genuine subject that chroniclers like the Digital Antiquarian have spent years taking seriously. The Machine's position is the boring one: dump your own carts, and buy the hardware you emulate when you still can.

The Price Story

Price is where this comparison stopped being simple, because in 2026 the price of the Pocket 6 is not the price the Pocket 6 launched at. If you are working from a spec sheet written at reveal, you are working from a number that no longer exists.

The pricing and availability table

The DRAM crunch and the $244 hike

On March 2, 2026, Retroid raised the 8GB Pocket 6 from $229 to $244 — a $15 bump four months into a product's life, which almost never happens in consumer electronics and only happens when a supplier has a company over a barrel. The barrel, in this case, was memory. As fabs shifted capacity toward the high-bandwidth memory that AI servers devour, LPDDR5x prices spiked across the board. Retroid's statement, relayed by Andy Walker at Android Authority, was unusually frank: “the recent surge in memory pricing has reached a level that we are unfortunately unable to absorb.” The same crunch is what killed the G2 two weeks later and what is quietly repricing the entire handheld market — I walk through how it reshaped the wider Retroid lineup, including the incoming Nova, if you want the macro view.

The 12GB config that vanished

The same March announcement did something quieter and, for power users, more annoying: it discontinued the 12GB/256GB Pocket 6 outright. Retroid's explanation, again via Walker: “under the new supplier costs, we cannot continue offering the 12GB configuration at a reasonable price.” The 12GB model later made a limited return in a different storage arrangement, but the clean, buy-it-anytime 12GB/256GB SKU is effectively gone. In practice this matters less than it sounds — 8GB is plenty for everything up to the emulation ceiling this device can reach, and the extra RAM was always more future-proofing than necessity. But it reframes the value math. At launch, the Pocket 6 was a $30 premium over the Pocket 5 ($199 versus $229). After the hike, it is a $45 premium ($199 versus $244). That is the number in this article's title, and it is the number your decision turns on.

How They Compare to the Field

Neither of these devices exists in a vacuum, and the most useful thing a review can do is tell you what else your money buys. In 2026, the Pocket 6's $244 lands in a crowded, awkward neighborhood.

The peer table

The Ayn Odin 2 Portal is the real problem

Here is the cross-shop that keeps the Pocket 6 honest. The Ayn Odin 2 Portal starts at $249 — five dollars over the Pocket 6 — and it runs the same Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Adreno 740 inside a larger 7-inch 1080p 120Hz OLED with an 8,000mAh battery. That is a bigger screen and a third more battery for pocket change. What you give up is pocketability: the Odin 2 Portal is a two-handed slab that will not disappear into a jacket the way the 5.5-inch Retroids do. The choice between them is almost entirely a choice about size, and that is a genuinely close call the Pocket 6 does not win on specs alone.

The Steam Deck OLED and the ceiling above

If the Pocket 6's ceiling frustrates you — if you genuinely want PS3, Xbox 360, or PC gaming in a handheld — the honest answer is that you are shopping in the wrong aisle. The Steam Deck OLED, now $789 for the 512GB model after Valve's May 2026 price hike, is an x86 machine that emulates seventh-generation consoles natively and runs actual PC games. It is more than three times the price, twice the size, and a completely different value proposition. It is also the correct purchase for the person the Pocket 6's marketing is lying to. And if your real goal is playing Nintendo's own catalog at full speed, buying the hardware outright is still the cleanest path — I lay out the current math on Nintendo's own Switch pricing, which has its own 2026 surprises.

Five Ways to Play

Specifications describe a device; scenarios describe a life. Here is how each machine behaves across the five ways people actually use these things. Where it helps, I have summarized the per-system reality in a reference block first.

SYSTEM          RP5 (SD865)          RP6 (8 Gen 2)
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PS1 / N64       Full speed           Full speed
Dreamcast       Full speed           Full speed
PSP             3x native            4x native
NDS / 3DS       1x-2x upscale        2x-3x upscale
GameCube        1x-2x, some dips     3x native (Dolphin)
Wii             1x, compromised      2x-3x
PS2             native, tinkering    1.5x-2x (AetherSX2)
Switch          select, glitchy      select titles, stable
PS3 / Xbox 360  NO                   NO (slideshow)

The casual and the commuter

The after-work casual — someone who wants to play forty-five minutes of a SNES or Genesis game before bed — is genuinely well served by either device. Both run every 8- and 16-bit system flawlessly for around ten hours on a charge, both have the same gorgeous AMOLED, and the 865 will never so much as breathe hard on a Super Nintendo game. For this person, the Pocket 5 on sale is the smarter money, full stop; the 6's power is entirely wasted.

The mobile commuter, playing on a train with the device in and out of a bag, cares about two things: pocketability and battery. Both Retroids win on size against the Odin 2 Portal and Steam Deck, and here the 6's larger 6,000mAh battery plus 27W fast charging is a real edge — a lunch-break top-up gets you through an evening commute. Advantage Pocket 6, but marginally.

The completionist and the speedrunner

The completionist — the person grinding a 90-hour PS2 JRPG or 100-percenting a GameCube library — is the single clearest case for the Pocket 6. This is exactly the sixth-generation content that separates the two chips, and the difference between GameCube at native resolution and GameCube at 3x is the difference between tolerating your backlog and enjoying it. If your want-to-play list is heavy with PS2, GameCube, and Wii, buy the 6 and do not look back.

The speedrunner cares about input latency, frame consistency, and — critically — accuracy, and here I will be blunt: neither of these is a competition device. Serious runs get submitted from original hardware or verified emulators on a desktop, because leaderboards care about frame-perfect timing that a phone SoC under thermal load cannot guarantee. For practicing routes on the couch, the Pocket 6's active cooling gives it more stable sustained frametimes, which is a modest edge. For a submitted run, use the real thing.

The co-op couch and local multiplayer

The co-op player lives on the video-out port, and this is worth correcting: contrary to some listings, the Pocket 5 is not missing video output. Both devices push DisplayPort over USB-C — the 5 typically at 4K30 (4K60 through the official dock), the 6 at 4K60 directly. Paired with two Bluetooth controllers, either becomes a passable living-room GameCube or PS2 box for a couch co-op session of a Mario Party or a Timesplitters. The 6's cleaner 4K60 output and stronger GPU make it the better docked machine, but if you want a dedicated set-top experience rather than a portable, honestly, build a cheap Batocera box and leave the handheld portable.

Who Should Buy Which

Enough hedging. Here is who each machine is for, in plain recommendations you can act on without re-reading the spec table.

Buy the Pocket 6 if…

• Your library reaches the sixth generation. If you own PS2, GameCube, or Wii games you actually want to play, the 6 is the only one of the two that plays them comfortably. This is the whole ballgame.
• You want the device to last. The 8 Gen 2's driver maturity and headroom mean it will age more gracefully as emulators get hungrier. HandheldRank called it “the safer long-term bet if you care about Switch and PC emulation,” and that is correct.
• You use it as an Android device too. The 120Hz panel, Wi-Fi 7, and linear rumble make the 6 a genuinely nicer object to hold and poke at all day, not just during emulation.

Buy the Pocket 5 (on sale) if…

• Your ceiling is the sixth generation's floor. PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PSP, Saturn, and every 2D system run flawlessly on the 865. If that is your library, the 6's power is money spent on nothing.
• You can find it under about $150. At a real discount, the Pocket 5 is one of the best value handhelds ever made. At full $199, it is not — the extra $45 to a Pocket 6 is the correct spend.
• You want the lightest device. At roughly 280 grams versus 320, the 5 is the more comfortable long-session machine for smaller hands or bedtime marathons.

Buy neither if…

Two use cases should send you elsewhere entirely. If you want a bigger screen and do not care about pocketability, the Ayn Odin 2 Portal at $249 gives you the same silicon in a 7-inch OLED with an 8,000mAh battery. And if you genuinely need PS3, Xbox 360, or PC gaming, stop looking at Snapdragon handhelds — buy a Steam Deck OLED and accept the size and the $789. The worst outcome here is buying a Pocket 6 to run games it physically cannot run.

Pros, Cons, and the Final Word

Two ledgers, then the verdict. No surprises left in the tank — just the accounting.

Retroid Pocket 6 — the ledger

Pros:

• Roughly 70 percent faster CPU and close to double the GPU of the Pocket 5.
• Clears GameCube at 3x, PS2 at 1.5x–2x, and a stable slice of Switch.
• Beautiful near-borderless 120Hz AMOLED; a genuinely modern-feeling device.
• Larger 6,000mAh battery with 27W fast charging, plus a proper linear rumble motor.
• Mature 8 Gen 2 drivers make it the safer long-term bet.

Cons:

• Raised to $244 mid-life by the memory crunch; no longer the bargain it launched as.
• The clean 12GB/256GB config was discontinued.
• Heavier than the Pocket 5 by about 40 grams.
• Plays it safe — Saltalamacchia's “Retroid have played it too safe to turn heads” is fair.
• The Ayn Odin 2 Portal offers the same chip and more screen for $5 more.

Retroid Pocket 5 — the ledger

Pros:

• Same excellent 5.5-inch AMOLED, Hall sticks, and 2TB microSD ceiling as the 6.
• Flawless through the fifth generation and most of the sixth's lighter fare.
• Lighter and, on sale, dramatically cheaper.
• Video-out is present and capable, contrary to some listings.

Cons:

• 2020-era 865 struggles with GameCube upscaling, heavier PS2, and most Switch.
• 60Hz panel and no fast charging.
• At full $199 it is cannibalized from every direction — a “value crisis” device.

The final word

Phil Retro at HandheldRank wrote the most honest sentence anyone has written about the Pocket 5 in 2026: “the problem isn't the device; it's the neighborhood it lives in.” He called it a “sale-only device…outpaced by its own shadow,” cannibalized by the G2 and the Pocket 6. That is exactly right. The Pocket 5 is a fine machine that the calendar and the price list have quietly demoted.

So the verdict resolves cleanly. The Retroid Pocket 6 earns 8 out of 10 — the correct default purchase for anyone whose emulation ambitions reach the sixth console generation, held back from a higher score only by the price hike and a fundamental unwillingness to take a single risk. The Retroid Pocket 5 earns 6.5 out of 10 at full 2026 price, 7.5 if you catch it under $150 — a great handheld living in the wrong year. Pay the $45. Buy the 6. And if you are the kind of person who wants PS3 emulation out of a $244 handheld, buy the truth instead: it does not exist, and no amount of marketing copy will make it.