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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by dbreunig on Thursday November 11, 2021 @03:58PM (#29193081)
Panic has a history of delivering thoughtful, well-made software. Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel. Combine that with Teenage Engineering's similar novel and excellent track record with hardware design and you've got a very interesting product to those that like Panic's software and/or like good hardware design. If nothing else this product will be novel and well considered.

If that's not your cup of tea, cool. But there's a lot here for several communities.

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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by tpush on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:59PM (#29193726)
> Their initial foray into games (Firewatch, Untitled Goose Game, Nour) were all excellent and novel.

Note that Panic hasn't developed any of those games; they published them.

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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by JohnBooty on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:15PM (#29196252)
Right. True.

Continuing that trend, nearly all of PlayDate's announced games are also externally developed and (obviously) published by Panic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate_(console)#Games

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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by boffinAudio on Friday November 12, 2021 @06:48AM (#29198348)
See also: ClockworkPi, DevTerm, GameShell / OpenPyra, etc.

Seems to be an emerging successful model: take the revenues from a game/software product and use it to bootstrap a hardware company.

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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by amelius on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:17PM (#29193301)
They could release just the software then, which would run fine on Android and iOS machines (which by the way offer way more value for people who appreciate good hardware and good software) Who needs more e-waste?
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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by frosted-flakes on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:02PM (#29194838)
The hardware is the whole point of the endeavour.
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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by thatguy0900 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:34PM (#29193496)
The playmate has a unique interface with its wind up arm thing. I would assume all the already made launch games will use it
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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by frosted-flakes on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:03PM (#29194844)
Not all the games for the Playdate use the crank, but a lot do.
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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by amelius on Friday November 12, 2021 @05:16AM (#29197847)
They could have sold the crank as an extension for iPhones or Android phones.
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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by rfd4sgmk8u on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:49PM (#29195133)
I agree. In a chip shortage, we should be reassessing exactly what devices need the chips, and priorities. I am very unexcited by this product, it seems practically useless. Tiger Electronics Handhelds indeed.

The steam deck (a real linux handheld computer) on the other hand, gimme gimme gimme

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Re:PlayDate Fulfillment Delayed by jakelazaroff on Friday November 12, 2021 @12:15AM (#29196503)
Okay, but people want different things. If you were to ask me, I would much rather ”reassess” the Steam Deck — a device in which I have no interest, made by a company with a poor hardware track record — than the Playdate — a unique device with interesting exclusives made by two companies I like a lot.
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