**The Absolute Gaming Device: A Comprehensive Review**

I'm coming back to it now I gotta say this is performing amazingly and one thing you got to keep in mind here is this is not streaming from a cloud service this is streaming from my own gaming PC. The absolute device I'm testing is connected to my gaming PC, which is also on the same network. This setup allows for a more stable and reliable connection, as opposed to streaming through Wi-Fi.

My gaming PC has always had that hardwired connection, and it's something I've always preferred over wireless connections. It eliminates the potential issues that can arise from dealing with multiple wireless signals. With my PC connected to the absolute device, we're able to get a great performance out of this device.

The final thing I wanted to test here was the main app I use for game streaming and the home and even out of home in that Steam Link. This is kind of my go-to always had really great luck with it, and you might notice I've got the Steam Deck interface here. I'm on the latest Steam beta, so this is the new Big Picture Mode, which is one of the features available on the Steam Deck.

Once we got this connected, we essentially have a Steam Deck, but with more power coming from my gaming PC. With my game streaming settings set to 1080p quality, we're able to get a really nice picture. The Horizon Zero Dawn game runs beautifully in 1080p ultra settings, and the display looks great on this screen. Even though I'm streaming it, I'm streaming in home, so we have very minimal latency. It's a really nice experience with the absolute.

After spending several weeks with the absolute device, I've actually grown to really like this device personally. Love the foreign factor of this device. Awesome screen - this screen looks really good. For the price you really can't beat it. They did a bang-up job selecting this display. The factor is great - not as comfortable as the Logitech G Cloud given the Palm rest area is a bit fatter on the G Cloud, but you can still play this for hours and not cramp up or anything like that.

We've also got great connectivity again. It would have been really nice to have Wi-Fi six, but with that memo five gigahertz Wi-Fi here, it's not bad at all for game streaming. One thing that this kind of device does lack in is just raw CPU performance. We've got the lower end mediatek quad core CPU, so when it comes to emulation on this device, you can go up to around Dreamcast. There are some PSP games that are going to be playable, but even the God of War series will struggle on this device, and you'll have to enable frame skip for that one.

Your best bet with high-end emulation on this device would be streaming it from a more powerful PC. But it does have the lower end stuff covered - GBA, Neo Geo, PC Engine, NES, PlayStation, some Dreamcast games do run quite well on here, but for the higher end emulators, they're a little out of the question. Like GameCube, Wii, 3DS, PS2 we just don't have enough power here and like I mentioned even some of the harder to emulate PSP games do struggle on this mediatek chip.

**The Kickstarter Campaign**

Heading over to the Kickstarter campaign shows that we can pick this up for $199, which will get us the four gigs of RAM and 32 gigabytes of internal storage. But they also support a Micro SD card, and they offer two different color options - we've got the black which we took a look at in this video, but they also have a white version, which I do think looks really good.

**Conclusion**

In the end, it's up to you if you want to save up the money and buy a Steam Deck. I would definitely do that if you know what you're getting into. But if you're looking for a nice light device for game streaming then this might be for you, and at the price it's coming in, a lot lower than everything else on the market right now, except for maybe a cheap Android phone with a cheap controller that you could put in your pocket.

**Additional Information**

If you're interested in learning more about the absolute, I'll leave some links in the description to their official website and Kickstarter. Again, I do want to mention it - it's always up to you. If this is a device you know you can get by with for game streaming and low-end Android gaming, low-end emulation then yeah this is something that might work out really well for you.

**Disclaimer**

Or you could just save that cash and wait for a more powerful device to be released down the road if you've got any questions, let me know down below.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enforeign hey you what's going on everybody it's ETA Prime pack here again today we're going to be taking a look at an upcoming handheld known as the absolute so this is actually my second video I did the first one was more of a first look video but since then I've had a lot of time to spend with it and their Kickstarter is live right now so we've got more information on what they're offering and pricing straight off the bat obviously the first thing that people are going to compare this to is the steam deck this is not in the league with the steam deck this is actually running an Android operating system this is more in lines with uh the Logitech gcloud this is touted as a game streaming handheld we do have a lower end CPU here when you compare it to the Logitech G Cloud but pricing is also much lower this is coming in at 199 dollars during their Kickstarter campaign I'm not sure if they're going to raise the price after that or not but uh you can head over there I'll leave a link in the description if you're interested in learning a little more but first things first some of you might notice that the interface here is very reminiscent of the g-cloud and that's because it's using the handheld launcher I've seen this released with a few different handhelds in the past few months but uh we've got all of the settings we need here for Android by the way it is running Android 12. and uh when it comes down to it if you didn't want to use the handheld launcher you could always install a third-party launcher or use the built-in kind of stock Android Launcher from the settings we can swap over what they're calling tablet mode once we get over there you can see we've basically got a stock Android interface so we can go through here rearrange everything and this does make it a little easier if you want to use an app that doesn't support the controller so well but uh when it comes down to it we do have a built-in mapper so we can map this controller to on-screen touch points so we can use it with games that don't natively support controllers personally I do like handheld mode I think it looks really good here and hopefully in the future we do get a few more themes that we can mess around with but overall it's a really Snappy experience moving over to the hardware I do want to go over the specs and what we've got here now it's not the most powerful CPU in the world and like I mentioned this was meant to be a game streaming device and with this CPU we do have plenty of power for that but when it comes to higher-end Android games and higher end emulators it's really going to struggle because this is only using the mediatek 8365 it's a quad-core arm CPU at 2 gigahertz and for the GPU we've got the Mali g52 MC1 it's got a beautiful 7-inch 1920x1080 display 60 hertz refresh rate and 103 srgb love the saturation here I think it's a great screen they did an awesome job choosing this one obviously with a streaming device Wi-Fi or connectivity is really going to be important and with this we've only got 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi but we've got plenty of throughput there to do any kind of streaming that we want to do at 1080p one of the most important things here would be the stability of that Wi-Fi and that's why they opted to use the mt2r memo Wi-Fi chip while it's not as fast as Wi-Fi six it's a lot more stable than a lot of the lower end Wi-Fi six chips that are on the market right now there's been time to kind of refine this five gigahertz Wi-Fi technology really important when it comes to game streaming because you want a very stable connection just to keep that frame rate up and the video quality sharp another thing we have here are halt based analog sticks and we've also got Hull based triggers so instead of using a physical connection this uses a magnetic field really nice and we've been seeing this a lot in a lot of different controllers and handhelds on the market really glad to see it come into a low-cost device like this this also has front-facing dual stereo speakers and a dual z-axis linear motor so we've got pretty good haptics here but one of my favorite things about this device here is battery life it's only got a 5200 milliamp hour battery which doesn't sound like a lot nowadays but we can get eight hours of gameplay out of this thing I've been messing around with it for quite a bit I don't have to charge it for around three days and I've been using it every single night give you a quick size comparison between it and the gcloud the absolute is coming in a bit thinner as you can see that gcloud does have kind of those chubby Palm rest which does make it a little more comfortable to hang on to for a long period of time now we've got sharper edges on the absolute doesn't kind of dig into my hands or anything like that but it would have been nice to just have a little more meat right there by the Palms here's the size comparison between the absolute and the steam dag steam deck is a pretty massive handheld when it comes down to it but it's putting out a lot more performance okay so jumping into a little bit of testing we're going to start out here with Xbox game pass so we're doing some Xbox cloud gaming here interface loads right up everything's really Snappy here and uh this is actually one of my favorite game streaming services and it's really because I've already subscribed to Game Pass and I've got access to this but we can get right in here and I've just started up Forza Horizon 5. all right so here we are with Xbox cloud gaming and remember we do have those analog triggers so uh this is one of my favorite things for racing games we can give it a little bit of input if you don't want to enable launch control in the game you can do it this way so just a bit and here go up we could go all the way with it but yeah I really do utilize this quite a bit with racing games it's definitely my favorite genre and I've said it before but I've always had really good luck with Xbox game streaming now this isn't streaming from my home console this is the cloud gaming version of it all and with a decent internet connection you should have a pretty decent time and again no Wi-fi six here but we do have that really stable Wi-Fi five so this is really playable another cloud gaming service I like using is GeForce now I've already set this up with my account so I can go through find the games I already own or I can stream some free games here but we'll go with uh cyberpunk 2077. and this does look really good I've been with the founders edition of GeForce now since it launched and uh we've got access to RTX here over time this has definitely improved in performance we're streaming from their servers probably thousands of miles away from where I am right now but I am able to play cyberpunk 2077 relatively easy here whenever I do a video that involves game streaming be it a cloud gaming or native game streaming from your own PC I get asked about Moonlight I usually don't use it myself because I'm not signing a GeForce experience on my main gaming PC but I've done it for this video and we'll just launch Spider-Man Miles Morales and I'll tell you it's been a long time since I've even tested out Moonlight another reason you know I kind of put it on the back burner and use steam link over this was the performance I was getting when I tested it but coming back to it now I gotta say this is performing amazingly and one thing you got to keep in mind here is this is not streaming from a cloud service this is streaming from my own gaming PC the absolute and my gaming PC are on the same network and with the PC itself I've always got that hardwired that way I don't have to deal with two wireless connections but yeah I mean this is really close to you know playing on the PC itself foreign the final thing I wanted to test here was the main app I use for game streaming and the home and even out of home in that steam link so this is kind of my go-to always had really great luck with it and you might notice I've got the steam deck interface here I'm on the latest Steam beta so this is the new Big Picture Mode and once we got this connected we've basically got a steam deck but I've got a lot more power in my gaming PC and with my game streaming settings I've got it at 1080p quality so we've got a really nice picture Horizon zero Dawn 1080p ultra settings I mean it looks great on this display and even though I'm streaming it I'm streaming in home so we have very minimal latency here it's a really nice experience with the absolute okay so after spending several weeks with the absolute I've actually grown to really like this device personally love the foreign Factor awesome screen this screen looks really good and for the price you really can't beat it they did a bang-up job selecting this display form factor is great not as comfortable as the Logitech G Cloud given the Palm rest area is a bit fatter on the G Cloud but you can still play this for hours and not cramp up or anything like that we've also got great connectivity again it would have been really nice to have Wi-Fi six but with that memo five gigahertz Wi-Fi here not bad at all for game streaming one thing that this kind of does lack in is just raw CPU performance we've got that lower end mediatek quad core CPU so when it comes to emulation on this device you can go up to around Dreamcast there are some PSP games that are going to be playable but even the God of War series will struggle on this device and you'll have to enable frame skip for that one your best bet with high-end emulation on this device would be streaming it from a more powerful PC but it does have the lower end stuff covered GBA Neo Geo PC engine s NES PlayStation some Dreamcast games do run quite well on here but for the higher end emulators they're a little out of the question like GameCube Wii 3DS PS2 we just don't have enough power here and like I mentioned even some of the harder to emulate PSP games do struggle on this mediatek chip so first and foremost you know the company itself never came out and said this is a powerful device this was specifically designed for game streaming and it does that quite well with the hardware we have now heading over to the kickstarter shows that we can pick this up for 199 that'll get us the four gigs of RAM and 32 gigabytes of internal storage but they all support a Micro SD card and they also offer two different color options we've got the black which we took a look at in this video but they also have a white version which I do think looks really good kind of wish I would have got my hands on this one but yeah I mean you know for 199 you're getting a 7 inch 1080p 60 hertz IPS display quad core mediatek CPU Wi-Fi five a six axis gyro whole sensor joysticks and triggers and it's running Android 12. so in the end I mean this really up to you if you want to save up the money buy a steam deck I would definitely do that if you know what you're getting into but if you're looking for a nice light device for game streaming then this might be for you and at the price it's coming in a lot lower than everything else on the market right now except for you know a cheap Android phone with a cheap controller that you could put in your pocket but that's going to wrap it up for this video I really appreciate you watching if you're interested in learning more about the absolute I'll leave some links in the description to their official website and Kickstarter and again I do want to mention it it's always up to you I mean if this is a device you know you can get by with for game streaming and low-end Android gaming low-end emulation then yeah this is something that might work out really well for you or you could just save that cash and wait for a more powerful device to be released down the road if you've got any questions let me know down below like always thanks for watching\n"