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The price also includes 24 games delivered over the first year. Also the SDK will be free.
by sp332 5y ago
The price also includes 24 games delivered over the first year. Also the SDK will be free.
- smoldesu 5y agoMaybe 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.
- incanus77 5y agoI mean, a Tesla is basically a 70s Honda with updated internals.
- Nav_Panel 5y agoJust wish I could get a Tesla that looks like a 70s Honda!
- Marazan 5y agoYou can unlock the back door of the honda if the electrics fail.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoLike he said, updated internals.
- imtringued 5y agoYou mean in the sense that both are metal cages on wheels?
- w0m 5y agoApparently not that hard of a sell if it sold out in 20m.
- mulderc 5y agoThe 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.
- salamandersauce 5y agoIt'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.
- asadlionpk 5y agoAll CPUs are just rocks that we tricked into computing. Why buy a computer?