{"id":492252,"date":"2025-10-12T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492252\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T00:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T00:08:13","slug":"anbernics-modern-day-nintendo-ds-dupe-is-cheaper-than-the-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492252\/","title":{"rendered":"Anbernic&#8217;s modern-day Nintendo DS dupe is cheaper than the original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">After remaking every <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/anbernic.com\/products\/rg35xx-2024-new\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Game Boy model;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Game Boy model<\/a> imaginable, Anbernic is ready to take on the next frontier of classic gaming handhelds: the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/its-20-years-since-the-launch-of-nintendos-most-important-console\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nintendo DS;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Nintendo DS<\/a>. In its usual drip-feed fashion, the handheld maker released a teaser video revealing the <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MvlpBaUs79c\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Anbernic RG DS;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Anbernic RG DS<\/a>. The company didn&#8217;t offer many details for its Nintendo DS clone, but announced that it would cost less than $100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">That price tag isn&#8217;t surprising for anyone who&#8217;s been following Anbernic&#8217;s recipe of recreating iconic handhelds at an affordable price point. However, it&#8217;s still an attractive price point that&#8217;s even cheaper than the Nintendo DS&#8217; original MSRP of $149.99. Beyond price, Anbernic hinted at a possible new chip and showed off four colorways, including black\/red, teal, white and transparent.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Anbernic's RG DS in four colorways, including white, transparent, blue and red\/black.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"fig-image-round\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/15a91d40-a6c8-11f0-b6bf-6829d9a3e3fc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Anbernic hasn&#8217;t announced a release date yet, but the company often starts selling its devices shortly after the first reveal video. Once available, the Anbernic RG DS will compete against the more premium <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/ayn-reveals-a-nintendo-ds-style-handheld-that-comes-in-the-classic-game-boy-color-purple-194416424.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ayn Thor;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ayn Thor<\/a> that starts at $250. It&#8217;s important to note that Anbernic <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/retro-handheld-maker-anbernic-stops-us-shipments-due-to-tariffs-220217833.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:paused shipments;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paused shipments<\/a> from its Chinese warehouses to US customers in April following the tariff changes, meaning American buyers were limited to Anbernic&#8217;s US stock. The previous notice has since been removed, but the Trump administration recently announced another <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-xi-china-tariffs-rare-earth.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:retaliatory tariff;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">retaliatory tariff<\/a> on all Chinese goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After remaking every Game Boy model imaginable, Anbernic is ready to take on the next frontier of classic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[22999,162242,162243,1417,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-anbernic","9":"tag-anbernic-rg-ds","10":"tag-attractive-price-point","11":"tag-nintendo-ds","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115358289513115696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}