Maybe so, but at the end of the day it's still a Gameboy with updated internals. Even if Apple made this thing, it's a hard sell at $199.

The Gameboy was introduced in 1989 with a price of $89 USD, factor inflation and that would cost $195 today.

None of the games on play date will be as good as the pack in Tetris game on gameboy but the price doesn’t seem that bad when put into context.

It's expensive when you consider you can get faster devices with better screens, more buttons etc. for less than half the price these days. A Retroid Pocket 2 is $80, has a 3.5" color screen, analog sticks, includes a 32GB microSD card, HDMI out and a quad core processor.

When the Game Boy launched the nearest competitors were either technically better but far more expensive like the Lynx, Game Gear and Turbo Express or cheap terrible things like Tiger LCD handhelds. If the Game Gear was half the price would the Game Boy been as well received?

Yes the Playdate comes with a bunch of games but most of them are unknown and the handful shown so far don't seem $200 worthy IMO.

Apparently not that hard of a sell if it sold out in 20m.

I mean, a Tesla is basically a 70s Honda with updated internals.

You can unlock the back door of the honda if the electrics fail.

Like he said, updated internals.

Just wish I could get a Tesla that looks like a 70s Honda!

You mean in the sense that both are metal cages on wheels?

All CPUs are just rocks that we tricked into computing. Why buy a computer?