Retroid works out new US delivery choices for handheld consoles

Like principally each different nook of the worldwide financial system, the retro gaming handheld market is underneath assault from the present US administration’s ill-conceived tariffs. A number of producers have been compelled to pause delivery and rethink their whole product technique as costs threaten to blow up. That’s included Retroid, which was within the technique of releasing its new Pocket Traditional handheld. Now the corporate has some new updates to share with its prospects about what to anticipate.

We first bought affirmation that Retroid Pocket Traditional deliveries had been being impacted final week, with phrase of looming delivery shutdowns and the resultant unavailability of sure colorways. We bought one other replace about prioritizing US orders as we bought nearer and nearer to the cutoff for getting shipments out of China, which was alleged to be immediately, April 25.

In a collection of bulletins posted to the corporate’s Discord, immediately Retroid shares what is perhaps the primary excellent news about delivery we’ve heard shortly:

• 4PX has paused US shipments, beginning 4/23/25. No replace on when they’ll resume.
• DHL has paused US shipments, beginning 4/25/25. They’ve knowledgeable us that they’ll resume on 4/27/25.
• We have now additionally secured a brand new delivery vendor, to higher serve our U.S. prospects. There might be a trial interval from 4/25/25 – 5/15/25.
• It’s vital to notice that product costs WILL NOT INCREASE throughout this time. We additionally elected to pay the US tariff charges, on behalf of the client.
• Delivery prices nonetheless, will improve by about $20 on 4/27/25. Once more, US orders solely.

That sounds promising on a number of fronts. Not solely are DHL shipments set to renew subsequent week, however this mysterious new delivery accomplice presents Retroid some much-needed flexibility. The bump in delivery prices isn’t nice, however contemplating Retroid’s willingness to eat the US tariffs in the meanwhile, we completely can’t complain.

In fact, there’s a complete massive world on the market past the US, and Retroid is aware of its prospects there should be feeling a bit of uncared for because it raced to place out America’s dumpster hearth. The corporate additionally has a couple of updates to share with them:

• We at the moment are prioritizing all remaining non-US buyer orders that had been positioned earlier than 4/25.
• We count on to meet Flip 2 orders by the top of subsequent week.
• For the Traditional: Traditional 6, PKM Yellow, Retro, Atomic Purple: we count on to have these fulfilled by the top of subsequent week.
• Kiwi, Berry, Teal was beforehand scheduled to start out delivery on 4/28. That is now scheduled to start on 5/5.

Whereas the tariff fallout continues, it’s reassuring to see that firms like Retroid are nonetheless pushing ahead, and little by little attempting to navigate their approach again to one thing at the least resembling regular. There’ll nonetheless most likely be some grumbling from worldwide consumers who really feel like US orders bought precedence remedy for no good cause, nevertheless it’s not like there’s any good cause for the tariffs within the first place, so — checks out!