Check your local offline market instead of buying them online simply because of reliablilty and prefer buying from a repair shop as these machines are old and you can't just assume they will work perfectly fine.
PS1: ₹1500/2000 PS2 Slim: ₹4000 PS2 Fat: ₹5000 PS2 Rasila Combo: ₹5500 Xbox 360 Jasper fat (most reliable one) - ₹7000 Ps3 fat - ₹7000 Xbox 360 slim/ps3 slim/super slim - ₹9000/₹9500 Xbox one with id games loaded - ₹9500 Xbox one s - ₹12000 (with games: ₹15000) Ps4 fat - ₹13000 Ps4 slim - ₹16000 Ps4 fat jailbreak and loaded - ₹19000-₹20000 Ps4 slim jailbreak - ₹22500/₹23000 Xbox series S - ₹20000 Ps4 pro - ₹20000 Ps4 pro jailbreak - ₹25000
Retro Handhelds are no longer recommended by which I mean those that are easy to carry and small size.
Steam Decks, ROG Allys and other consoles with a larger screen which are heavy also looks like they are not recommended if you intend to use them as actual handhelds however using them by removing the external controllers like with a Switch might be something worth lookingg into. I will for sure test them them just like the retro consoles above before saying anything.
I have experienced this first hand when as a poor we used our monitor as a TV and I being a stubborn kid didn't let go off the monitor so my Mom could watch movies with the Hostel kids and she ended up crying because .... . That memory is too sharp in my head that I ask people coming to look for a console or even making a PC that do you already have a secondoary TV or monitor at home and if you don't have it, give your house a cheap TV if you only have one display at home. They are not that expensive.
Consoles with their own display like hanhelds leaves the TV/monitor free for other uses
So, I guess what I want to say is if you are going to buy a console that doens't have it's own display, get another display and don't just hook it to your TV especially if other people in the house use the old TV for anything at all.
Otherwise you can just buy a handheld console from below and also a projector with a normal console(Yes, I have to explore this in more details later).
After getting the chinese clones of the retro consoles I finally have started to see the value in getting
consoles directly from the manufacturer such as Anerbnic or Powkiddy.
It might be a bit extra than getting a chinese clone of the same form factor or spec but it's so much more
better to get these directly.
The Chinese Consoles are fragile, not well built and start to show sign of bad parts in a few months
itself, that is if you even get a working unit or a unit at all.
Note: You get a refund if those things happen to you as already explained here for Alibaba and is the same for Aliexpress.
I have a small R36S(smaller than a normal phone now), an R36Pro(a phone size but very thick) and R46S(almost a
phone size but wider and bit thicker).
And I have them in the drawer which I open before I leave for any place and I only pickup the R36S due to
it's smaller size and that is pretty important to understand.
People think getting a bigger 9" Legion Go or Steam Deck or something huge will help them play a lot of
games if they are using these on the go but it's simply not comfortable enough to do so in terms of moving
around.
On my bus jorneys and train journeys I tend to pickup something usually smaller than a phone(open or even
closed if it's a flip) and that matters.
If you're new to this, stick to smaller devices first because you will actually use them more instead of a
larger device that's at home.
The controllers here aren't much more expensive than Alibaba or Aliexpress but I have yet to order from these sites:
[NEED TO CONFIRM IF IT'S GENUINE] anbernic.com/
and [NEED TO CONFIRM IF IT'S GENUINE] powkiddy.com(Mixed reviews online)
especially during sales when they give some coupons.
<$60 Anbernic RG 35XXPro→ [Just started reviewing]All details here.