tbqh lads the RP6 announcement kind of chaps my ass because - aside from the glass front - it was exactly what I wanted when I bought the RP5. After the RP4, I was hoping and praying for Retroid to make something shaped like a Vita with enough power (and chip compatibility) to play Dreamcast in Flycast with the Per-Pixel setting enabled. I just assumed great color choices would always be a given with Retroid.

Then the 5 was unveiled, and it was this fucked up middleground where it was kinda there but not really. It wasn't as Vita shaped as I would've liked... but, it was kind of round? Maybe this was the closest they were ever going to get? And on paper the chip seemed likely to fulfill both the compatability and power requirement for the Per-pixel setting in Flycast. After much deliberation and profound sadness over the boring and ugly color options white was actually alright and could be made to look great with transparent color backplate + controls swap, but you know how fast white plastic often yellows, I went ahead with the purchase of a black one anyways thinking they would never go any closer to the Vita shape I wanted.

Then it turned out the chip in the RP5 actually didn't have quite enough power for that Flycast setting, much to my surprise. And now they show the RP6 with a proper Vita shape, badass colors like orange and those snazzy silver/lilac ones with transparent d-pad and buttons, and chip with no doubt enough power + compatibility to finally handle my autism setting.