Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
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Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#2It would be cool if the crank was also used to charge the device's battery.
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#3I personally love weird single-purpose hardware. Unfortunately it tends not to do very well commercially.
Anybody remember this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#4Slightly off-topic, but the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website (https://teenage.engineering/products/po) with larger font size (a bit too large imo). Not dissing the website though, it isn't that bad overall, just thought it was interesting, since I haven't seen many others attempting that.
EDIT: after a closer look at the page, I realized that they explicitly mentioned partnering with Teenage Engineering on parts of the device design. The website resemblance makes more sense now :)
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#5I personally love weird single-purpose hardware. Unfortunately it tends not to do very well commercially. Anybody remember this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
If we're talking single-purpose gaming devices that failed, there's always the Gizmondo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo
I don't think Panic is involved in organized crime, though.
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#6Slightly off-topic, but the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website ( https://teenage.engineering/products/po ) with larger font size (a bit too large imo). Not dissing the website though, it isn't that bad overall, just thought it was interesting, since I haven't seen many others attempting that. EDIT: after a closer look at the page, I realized that they explicitly mentioned partner…
Bottom of page:
> By the way, the crank came from our friends at Teenage Engineering. They were our partners for Playdate’s design. Isn’t it nice?
Edit: you took a closer look while I was typing. You're excused. ;)
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#7Slightly off-topic, but the website design looks like a worse version of Teenage Engineering website ( https://teenage.engineering/products/po ) with larger font size (a bit too large imo). Not dissing the website though, it isn't that bad overall, just thought it was interesting, since I haven't seen many others attempting that. EDIT: after a closer look at the page, I realized that they explicitly mentioned partner…
I like the visual style.
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#8I personally love weird single-purpose hardware. Unfortunately it tends not to do very well commercially. Anybody remember this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader
I've actually ordered one from ebay last week. Looking forward to it.
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#9Image links are broken for me.
Re: Playdate – A New Handheld Gaming System
#10It would be cool if the crank was also used to charge the device's battery.
that's what i thought it was for, and then maybe it could be used to charge something else with crank-power through usb