Playdate Review

22 Comments

1. can it run Doom?

2. Oh wow, he likes vaporwave.

3. who wrote the Nuprin reference?

4. Yet another thing that came out before the Intellivision Amico. Lol.

5. Couldn't think of anything worse to waste money on…

6. handheld gaming device

   hard to hold with hands

   you had one job…

7. You have to wait for the next batch to come out in 2023

8. Wow almost $200 Cdn, that’s ridiculous overpriced. Can get a Nintendo switch lite for about $50 more

9. It's bmo

10. There are much better handhelds than this that host Emulators.

11. Imagine having Xbox Game Pass on this.

12. why is price not a category

13. for the same price as a nintendo switch lite? and no backlighting on that little black and white screen as well? and only 4GB of space? like its a cool little device and quite charming looking but at that price point…….it seems extremely questionable. if this thing was $50 sure- seems like a little more reasonable possibility but at roughly $200…. you can buy a Retroid Pocket 2+ for $100 and play NES,SNES,GB,GBA,PS1,PSP,Genesis,Gamecube,Dreamcast etc on it and put in an sd card with as much space as you want and with a backlit touchscreen and pretty much the same battery life as this.

14. Don’t you all have a phone (Blizzcon 2018)? So… what’s the point of this?

15. We need something like this, but for Pico-8 Games.
    Anyway, for how cool the idea is, the price of "PlayDate" will be the huge turn-off for most of us.

16. thought crank was a charging mechanism, as a controller its bleh

17. Most people: "No backlight and high price are the main deal breaker"
    Me, an intellectual: "It has a crank for inputs, of course there's gonna be a Bennett Foddy game in it"

18. Excellent Review

19. You know for twice the price you can get a Nintendo Switch that’s about a thousand times better.

20. So. Doom port?

21. You just know someone's going to program the entirety of Doom in it

22. It looks fun, I'd probably want check it out for maybe $50 max. Almost $200 is a joke though. That's Switch Lite territory.

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