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It looks uncomfortable to spin the crank while using the other controls, which means you’d want it to be used exclusively if at all.

• monk_e_boy 7y ago
  It looks so dumb. I wonder who they are marketing this at? Not your typical Fortnite / CS / Wow gamer. I love indie games and experimental story telling, but $150 for 12 games, and one of them uses a crank... not buying it. Sorry. $50 on steam gets me a whole lot of weird, and I got a ton left to invest in a case of craft beer to enjoy along with it.
  • joezydeco 7y ago
    Then you do you. But you don’t have to be a buzzkill about it.
    • kkarakk 7y ago
      it's not even accurate - nintendo labo has shown there is a market for high spec high quality non standard games(as long as there is an assurance of quality behind it) biggest hurdle for playdate is word of mouth - nintendo has that trust, i don't trust the company behind this. Same reason that android console failed - hell nvidia couldn't get enough support behind it
      • eridius 7y ago
        I trust Panic. They have an extremely long history of producing really high-quality Mac software, and they published Firewatch (which was excellent).
        • kkarakk 7y ago
          Panic is, ironically, a "moral panic" type of company. When e-culture shifts, they shift their policy accordingly. I would not trust them for stability.
          • eridius 7y ago
            What do you mean by this? What has Panic shifted on? The only example I can think of where they've shifted on anything is they released Transmit for iOS, then after a while they discontinued it, and that's because it simply wasn't making enough money for them to justify the cost of maintenance.
      • joezydeco 7y ago
        I don't see Panic approaching this as a "console" and looking for outside platform support. This is more like ten $15 Game-and-Watches bundled together. If they offer more games after the fact that's cool, but at this price point I think most customers will love it for what it is.