It'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 i

It'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.