• @ABCDE
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    1120 days ago

    Black and white (or whatever colour) with backlight is fine. If I can buy an Anbernic or whatever the buggery for <$50, this can be not much more.

    • @Lost_My_Mind
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      1020 days ago

      If I recall correctly, the playdate was $250 a year ago. Not sure if it’s the same price today. But that was enough to stop my purchade a year ago.

        • @ABCDE
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          “A bit”, my lord.

          “Since the beginning, the number one question from Playdate owners has been: ‘When will there be another Season?’” says Greg Maletic, Playdate project lead.

          I’m pretty sure it was ‘why is it so damn expensive’.

          • RubberDuck
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            219 days ago

            That’s the question from non customers.

            • @ABCDE
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              119 days ago

              If I bought it and realised that’s all I got, I’d be wondering that.

          • @MurrayL
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            Because it has a library of interesting and innovative exclusives, making use of an unusual control input. Whether that makes it worth it or not is personal preference, but you can’t disagree that it offers something unique.

          • Virkkunen
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            820 days ago

            Because they are different devices serving different purposes. The r36s is a portable emulator that’ll run games from different consoles; the playdate is a portable console that runs games made specifically for the playdate.

      • @ABCDE
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        220 days ago

        Bonkers.