Patreon Bonus: GPD Win 4 2023 Early Thoughts & Initial Testing Process (Patreon)

Hey, everyone!

If you saw our recent ASUS ROG Ally review, we've really had a lot of fun beginning work on handheld reviews. This has furthered a few things outside of handheld testing for us: First of all, it's served as a really controlled use case for our acoustic chamber, so we've had a smaller list of devices that are much simpler to test (there aren't many ways you can use a handheld system, unlike customizable PCs). Having these smaller/controlled test cases allows us to develop processes and charting methods (and just the basic understanding/comprehension skills) to apply toward larger content pieces, like component reviews. But it's also been fun just because this market seems to be doing a lot of cool things right now.

So, since each of these reviews seems to take a month or more for us right now (until we whittle it down to something manageable), we wanted to give our Patreon backers some early thoughts from Patrick. Please keep in mind that none of this is final or polished, so our opinions on this (and technical detail) will develop over the next several weeks and before the main review.

Thank you!