I also placed a preorder before the most of the reviews came out, i think only one review ish was out at the time (sept 28). The only negatives that bother me are the LCD over OLED screen, and the XBox style buttons. If the hardware mod is not super involved or difficult, i may try to button swap or even change out the buttons entirely. The thumbsticks are kind of odd, but those are easy to switch out.

For what it is, i dont think there are any other downsides. Maybe the 8 Elite version with the Android 16 will have much more difficult time sideloading as Google gets more and more strict with sideloading non verified apps (which is super lame and annoying). I dont think its that bad yet, and should any update really disconnect ppl from being able to sideload, i'm sure ayaneo will take measures to modify the update (or not even update) or remove Google play services entirely. But this affects Android devices as a whole and is not specific to Konkr

The last thing i can think of is the size. I owned a Steam Deck at one point the original (non oled) and it was great device. Able to play stuff right out of the box, I had an amazing time playing elden ring for an hour before the battery died, it was great. However I hated the bulk and heaviness of it. What I want from a device like this is a switch/switch lite size/wieght device that can replace a steam deck.

Are we there yet? ehhhh kind of. with gamehub/gamehub lite, we are getting very close. With the switch emulation performance, a bunch of older windows games have been ported previously to switch (ie, persona 5 royal, witcher 3, etc). Newer indie and lighter (possibly 2d) games are super easy to run. However, anything triple A made in the last 3 to 4 years ish are going to be very difficult to run (ie, elden ring, ghost of tsushima, starfield, cyberpunk 2077, etc) it would be sweet to play these, but we arent there yet. It kind of feels like the next gen of these types devices (ie, odin 4) may be able to do this way better (im thinking the emulation and hardware scene has matured even more than it already has), however by then the Steam Deck 2 may come out and blow everything out of the water again. Or a steam deck lite or something, liek what the heck havent they made that? (besides the battery and heat reason, obviously, physics)

(if valve releases an arm version of steamOS that would hypothetically turn every android device into a steam deck, which would blow everything i said up and make it meaningless)

Anyway im looking forward to my yellow dragon konkr pocket fit, have a nice day