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Nick Evanson

Acer tries to dodge the RAMpocalypse with its Nitro Blaze Link by making it streaming only

A low-resolution promotional image for the Acer Nitro Blazer Link remote gaming handheld.

With the RAMpocalypse doing its very best to ruin PC gaming, with memory and storage now ludicrously expensive, the handheld market has struggled to keep things affordable. Acer's solution to all this is simple: bin everything needed to play games locally, and just make a streaming device instead.

Officially called the Nitro Blaze Link, Acer's newest handheld joins the rest of the Blaze lineup. But where they're all packed with a punchy little AMD Ryzen 8000-series APU, lots of NVMe storage and fast DRAM, the Blaze Link is essentially a 'dead' box. You won't be playing any games locally, because it only has 1 GB of memory and 8 GB of eMMC storage for its Linux operating system, according to PC Mag.

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