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The original was posted on /r/fighters by /u/mragentofchaos on 2025-11-12 20:15:34+00:00.

Given that there’s a lot of negative sentiment regarding PS5 often being the default for offline tournament setups, I thought it might be worth considering a hypothetical alternative:

Here’s my reasoning:

Small size, native support for all kinds of controllers, performant enough to run current gen fighting games at locked 60 fps, and has the emulation chops for older titles. The only game that could potentially face a hurdle is 2XKO given its anti-cheat is not compatible with Linux. However, the game already has an offline exe meant for local play, so it may still work with some tweaks.

Of course, if this thing overheats just like a PS5 we’re back to square one. But the possibilities are exciting.