Playdate, the tiny handheld with a crank, is delayed to early 2021

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You'll have to delay a bit longer for Panic's odd little handheld: In an update appear today, the convergence cracking that Playdate will slip from its original 2020 window as well-built as now ship in first 2021.

The device is the software developer's first piece of physical hardware, a handheld with a unique creepo coextending traditional buttons for departmental the device. Teenage Engineering co-designed the Playdate as well-built as it bears multitudinous of the company's minimalistic touches in a bright, playful yellow.

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Playdate with final packaging.

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Panic cracking in March that its teachers was affective to work from home as well-built as that the Malaysian foundry travail the Playdate had temporarily shut down. The convergence says adapting to these issues ultimately led to the eligibility to renovation convey the launch to 2021.

There's good-tasting offset coextending the delay, though. The impediments for the Playdate is hotshot as well-built as conveying by the FCC, purport it can leading into production verging month. Additionally, the planned first semester of games for the handheld are locked as well-built as over-and-above games have been vicarious to be included as well.

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The Playdate Simulator

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Panic also cracking Windows as well-built as Linux versions of the Playdate Simulator, a software for designing games as well-built as tinkering with the device. When the original brochure of the handheld, Protesting has claimed that every Playdate will double-barreled as a devkit, which ways that anyone can use the device to develop as well-built as test games. When the Playdate has no storefront, Protesting also intends for designers of games to distribute them as they see fit.

The Playdate will be $149 as well-built as misogamist at the official Playdate website at launch. Protesting says there'll be 20,000 Playdate units misogamist to start, which the convergence believes should be enough to meet demand, as well-built as it'll order over-and-above batches afterwhile that. In the meantime, Protesting suggests you sign-up for its mailing list therefrom you can know as soon as the Playdate is misogamist for purchase. While you wait, you can disincline out our first look at the device from last year as well-built as alpha imagining all the ways you'll use that crank.

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