Throwback Gaming Handheld “Playdate” Announced - Apparently they never heard of emulators.

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Publisher and developer Panic (Firewatch) has announced a new throwback handheld gaming console – the Playdate.

The new handheld will retail for $149.99, and it will ship in early 2020, with limited stock.

The Playdate has a non-backlit, black and white screen, a directional pad, A and B buttons, and a rotatable crank that can be used by games for – things.

While further details are scant, the handheld will ship with twelve indie games, and later games will be downloaded (at no extra cost) over a “season” of twelve weeks, from various developers like Katamari Damacy’s Keita Takahashi, Bennett Foddy, and others.

The first game to be revealed is Keita Takahashi’s Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure. Here’s an official blurb:

This game uses the crank exclusively to control the flow of time, backwards and forwards. Your goal? Get Crankin’ to his date with Crankette while avoiding an ever-increasing series of ridiculous obstacles — obstacles that aren’t affected by the time control. Will Crankin’ make it to his rendezvous on-time? (Spoiler alert: no)
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Stockholm-based Teenage Engineering designed the Playdate. The black-and-white display with a 400×240 resolution is described as “extremely sharp and clear” and has no grid lines or blurring. Again, there’s no backlight so playing in the dark will require a lamp – just like the good old days.

Further details like the on board CPU, RAM, storage, future seasons of games, and so on aren’t revealed yet.

If you’re looking to be informed when the Playdate goes live, make sure to sign up on its official website. Pre-orders are expected to go up later this year.
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How do you think it will go? Will it be another Ouya or will it have a potential to be success?
 
not for 150. a little novelty thing like this, loaded up with decent games, i'd buy for 70, maybe 90 bucks. if it was really good 100 max, but 150? it's got a black and white screen and game boy tier titles. i like these style of games but I also know they don't require expensive hardware. It looks like most of the cash is going to a stimming crank.
 
The playdate?

Jesus fucking Christ.... Who are they designing this for? Ralph Wiggum.
 
This, versus the stuff people who actually earned their money to use machines they got on their own to build their ideal emulation consoles? Minus crowdfunding that is conveniently a dollar short or reallocated to bloated promises?

Lol no.
 
You can buy superior chinese made gameboy clones for far cheaper and of much higher quality.

Fuck they even have an SD slot and can play actual GB and GBA cartridges.
 
Also no backlight so these faggots can emulate ~*THE FEEL*~ of the fucking OG gameboy.

OG gameboy was a fucking brick which this piece of shit isn't so it can't even get the physical feeling emulated right. Now you say "but what about the Gameboy pocket??? It was more popular because it was the gameboy model that appeared when pokemon did?" the Gameboy pocket didn't have a gay fucking little handle.

Dollars to Chinese Buffet Donuts that this piece of shit is rebranded from something that already exists just like SouljaWatch, we just have not stumbled across it yet on Aliexpress.
 
There are both community made and big company emulation handhelds already out there. The only point in this one I can see is for the company itself to sell it and make money, although at $150 I don't know who's gonna buy it.

Examples:

ODROID-GO – ODROID

www.hardkernel.com www.hardkernel.com
 
XYZpdq said:
The crank looks like it'll be hard to stick in your pocket.
But yeah with even spedphones emulating Game Boy, GBA, and PSP it's a really hard sell just to get me to carry around the handhelds I have.
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The handle is supposed to stick into the notch on the side, so it shouldn't be significantly hard to stick it into your pocket.
Though I'd wager that the actual games are going to be more akin to Game & Watch or highly gimmicky indie stuff than stuff like Link's Awakening or Kirby's Dream Land, so it'd never be more than a crappy Game Boy ripoff.
 
Marco Fucko said:
There are both community made and big company emulation handhelds already out there. The only point in this one I can see is for the company itself to sell it and make money, although at $150 I don't know who's gonna buy it.

Examples:

ODROID-GO – ODROID

www.hardkernel.com www.hardkernel.com
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YrofIDloHgw
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I just want to say, fuck people who pronounce NES and SNES as "ness and s'ness".

Do you mouth breathing retards pronounce DVD as "divvidee"?
 
I have to point out is that this is made in Stockholm. It is where the stars were aligned and all the usual suspects come together to create their own perfect console.
 
What's the point of this? At least pico-8 had colour (And was a shared specification you could run anywhere despite being a supposedly 8-bit "console" that's more powerful than the GBA in some respects).

The fishing rod is probably a reference to all the Dreamcast games that snuck in support for the fishing controller. Games they've never played. Soy game devs love referencing Dreamcast games they've never played. See: All the HASSY in Read Only Memories

I hope that by "black and white" they mean shaded black and white instead of mono, also no mention of the soundchip OR ANY SORT OF HOMEBREW. THIS IS VERY BAD.

Also in other news I'm still pissed off that the soy gaming sphere recruited Keita Takahashi he actually makes good games.
 
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