Nothing really seemed to fit for me, there were always compromises. But it turns out that I already owned the perfect device, and I carry it in my pocket everywhere.

I have a pretty good phone (S24+) and I paired it with an amazing controller (Gamesir G8 USB-C Edition)

It has hall effect thumbsticks and triggers, and connects directly to my phone via USB-C, so no latency.

I even setup Tasker to recognize when the controller is connected, so it locks in landscape mode, changes the keyboard to LeanKeyboard (controller friendly), and launches into my frontend, which was Daijisho but is now ES-DE. Then reverts to regular phone mode once the controller disconnects.

I loosely followed this guide from TechDweeb to setup ES-DE, if you’re interested.

With this setup I can play everything up to and including Switch games, not to mention native Android games, as well as streaming games from Sunshine on my PC.

Seriously, with a little bit of configuration and this ~$100 controller, I have no desire to get a steamdeck or anything similar.

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