Re:Playdate pre-orders begin in July
by beckler on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:15PM
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Well, it sounds like to me, that TE just did the hardware design, and PANIC is really the one making the decisions for the software/games side.
That being said, Teenage Engineering is one of those brands that has massively disappointed me over time. When the OP-1 came out it was a truly innovative, beautiful, and robust synthesizer... Despite that, everything they make now just seems over-hyped, over-priced, and homogeneous.
I mean their most recent "innovations" are, no-joke: a $600 portable AM/FM + BT radio, whose only real feature is a massive buffer so you can rewind or fast forward in real-time, and a robot that dances to music.
They're great at predictable, minimal design, there is no doubt there, but that's about it.
That being said, Teenage Engineering is one of those brands that has massively disappointed me over time. When the OP-1 came out it was a truly innovative, beautiful, and robust synthesizer... Despite that, everything they make now just seems over-hyped, over-priced, and homogeneous.
I mean their most recent "innovations" are, no-joke: a $600 portable AM/FM + BT radio, whose only real feature is a massive buffer so you can rewind or fast forward in real-time, and a robot that dances to music.
They're great at predictable, minimal design, there is no doubt there, but that's about it.