The OrangePi Neo gaming console , jointly developed by Orange Pi and the Manjaro Linux distribution developer community, is scheduled to go on sale in Q1 2025. The device is equipped with a 7-inch screen (1920 x 1200, 120Hz), AMD Ryzen 7 7840U or 8840U CPU, 16GB or 32GB of RAM, 512GB to 2TB NVMe SSD, two USB 4.0 ports, a 3.5mm sound port, a TF card slot, a touchpad, Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3, 2-watt speakers, a Hall Rocker joystick, and RGB backlighting. Dimensions are 259mm × 107mm × 19.9mm.
The device will run an atomically updated Manjaro Gaming Edition distribution as its operating system . The Gamescope composite server based on the Wayland protocol is used for rendering. The interface for managing the device and launching games is built on the OpenGamepadUI shell, which runs on top of the Godot game engine. Interaction with input devices is built on the InputPlumber background process .
To launch games from the Steam catalog, the Steam Client is included in the package. Compatibility with games compiled for Windows is achieved using the Proton package . In addition to a specialized shell, the ability to use a full-fledged KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment will be provided.
The console with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840U processor, 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of SDD will cost $499, while the version with an AMD Ryzen 7 8840U processor will cost $100 more.