The dual-screen OneXSugar is planned to be shown off during a Chinese tour throughout 2025.
OneXPlayer, one-half of the collaboration between them and Sugar Cubes, announced on Twitter that the company will be hosting a “tasting experience” of the device in five major Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, and Wuhan.
OneXSugar Tasting Experience Announcement
OneXSugar Comes Out of the Shadows
The OneXSugar was briefly teased late last year through a video that showed the outline of a device with a body similar to that of the Nintendo Switch and many PC handhelds, but then the big reveal shows the controllers flipping inwards to be positioned next to a second screen while the first screen is then sitting on top of it.
Throughout the past year, devices that mimic or embody the same style as past handhelds have been seeing an uptick in popularity. The Miyoo Flip and RG34XX are designed with the inspiration of the Game Boy Advance SP and the original Advance, respectively.
With a dual-screen device, the OneXSugar enters a market that is still in its infancy within the retro handhelds space. MagicX did announce and reveal the Zero 40, a device with an elongated vertical screen that allows for both DS screens to sit atop one another, but outside of utilizing an LG V60 with its dual screen case or a Surface Duo, we haven’t seen many devices capable of displaying two quality screens at once.
Leaked Demo Shows it All
The controller mechanism shown in the video offers a Swiss knife-like transformation that begs the question of what the initial configuration will allow.
NITTRX shared a demo video via YouTube a few short months ago. In it, the device is said to have a Snapdragon 8 Gen3 processor, and the screen is detailed as being 6 inches, having both controllers on its side. The controllers then flip down and a second screen can be folded down from the back of the device, giving a dual display option to the handheld.
The demo video above gives a glimpse into what the final product may look like but also showcases how the device will function with two separate screens. The smaller of the two can seemingly run independently of the one above it, but the top screen is clearly the more impressive of the two shown.
Still, we only have the aforementioned trailer and demo video to go off of, but the announcement of the upcoming “tasting experience” should give us more details and insight into how the handheld will operate and what sets it apart from the variety of handhelds currently available.
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