Acer’s Steam Deck competitor is revealed to be the Nitro Blaze

The rumored Acer handheld is actual, and it’s a curious system. The brand new Acer Nitro Blaze falls someplace between the Asus ROG Ally and Ally X when it comes to energy, however no value or availability particulars have but been introduced, so it’s exhausting to evaluate when it comes to worth proper now.

We managed to take a sneak peek at Nitro Blaze following Acer‘s presentation at IFA 2024. It’s very skinny, and the show appears nice up shut, however the determination to stick decals throughout the entrance of the hand held ruins the aesthetic.

Listed below are the Acer Nitro Blaze specs:

The preliminary teases for the Nitro Blaze had been mild on particulars, with simply an X (previously Twitter) submit teasing that one thing was coming at IFA. Due to the upcoming launch of Intel’s Lunar Lake, we believed the brand new structure may energy the system, however as an alternative, Acer is utilizing AMD’s Ryzen 7 8840HS.

Whereas the structure is much like the AMD Ryzen Z1 Excessive which powers the ROG Ally gadgets, Asus’ latest handheld, the Ally X, has an edge due to 24GB of system reminiscence, of which extra could be assigned to cowl graphical wants.

It’s not an enormous shock to see Acer facet with AMD for a handheld, on condition that the one Intel-based handheld, the MSI Claw A1M, bombed upon launch. MSI and Intel are sustaining their partnership for the MSI Claw 8 AI+, nonetheless, which was additionally revealed at IFA this 12 months.

Past the checklist of specs, and our probability to take a better take a look at the system, few particulars are recognized. Acer might plan to launch the Nitro Blaze in 2024 or early 2025, nevertheless it must get the worth proper. With the Asus ROG Ally X being available on the market for $799, and with an immense quantity of energy underneath its belt, Acer should completely are available in underneath this value to keep away from killing all curiosity.

It’s not essentially a foul thought to purpose for the center of the market when it comes to energy for a primary console, however the MSRP must characterize this case. Each the Asus ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion Go have taken value cuts just lately, and the Nitro Blaze ought to look to those gadgets as a tenet, particularly when it makes use of the identical Home windows platform too, moderately than a proprietary working system similar to SteamOS.

We’ll be bringing you extra IFA protection because the present continues, however within the meantime, you may try our Intel Lunar Lake information to get an thought of how these new chips stack up towards the competitors.