is a little awkward for me to say but do you want to go on a date with me what no
no not that kind of date a play date it's a handheld console so I don't
really know how this is supposed to play out because it's unlike anything else
that I've ever seen before it's like kind of like this game boy kind of thing
except like half of it's chopped off and it's got a little crank on the side if
you buy one of these you get games for free well okay it's they're bundled into
the cost of the system which I think is a 179 us but you get these games drip
fed to you in like Seasons plus they have an SDK for developers that is
completely free and open to use it's not the kind of retro console that I'm
normally used to like this is a retro style console but it's kind of a new
thing and I I kind of dig it all right let's oh the inside of the Box even has
like a little cutout so that this doesn't get rattled around in shipping
that's actually really cool a USB cable it's yellow everything is very yellow
with this thing actually there is a cover that you can get for it that's
purple so it's like a Wario themed thankfully I don't think it farts at you
let's get the console itself out one of the things that people seem to be upset
about with the play date is that the brightness you see the screen at right
now that's the brightness that it's ever going to get it's not backlit whatsoever
let's go ahead and uh
play date oh well there it is uh we've got games already so we got white water
Wipeout casual birder settings that's my favorite game my favorite game I'm gonna
play settings give me settings okay we're already set up the Wi-Fi thank you
Logistics replay intro that's a good feature to have because we don't we
didn't see the intro but Logistics did now I want to see what Logistics are oh
that's cute so it's teaching me the the controls
just by doing this oh that's really cute
that's adorable wow the frame rate's really good like this is
you might think this is ink or something but no this is this is an LCD and just
doing this because it's nice it's not like super smooth but like it's it's
better than you might think for something that's like yellow and plastic and not backlit I'm not even playing any
games yet but that intro like the kind of grin that was on my face the whole
time is how I kind of feel like these games are going to go really depends on
the quality of the games I guess okay
I'm not sure what's happening exactly there's like something that's going to
hit me here oh I should have gone back
and sniffed the flower so that it would be yeah
yeah see this is this is different right
she just kicking the balls
so that's this game I don't know how much more there is to it it's difficult
for me to describe what that game was as
you move forward the guy moves forward but time is always moving anyway it's a
strange concept okay so this is pickpack pup I can either use the d-pad like a
pleb or I can do this okay dock the crank or
press a to continue okay so let's dock the crank so I guess this game doesn't
use crank after that yeah the speaker is pretty good like
yeah those songs
okay so this is a this is a uh a line matching game
um I've got like an X-ray camera and I'm going through like the Z depth or
actually no it's the focus that's another thing that I just I cannot see
happening with like a traditional console like maybe with the the l r
triggers I'm not sure what size the battery is in this thing actually let me
pull the specs real quick Nintendo took a lot of flack for the way the Wii was
just for like not being HD and honestly
yeah it was kind of Justified but the reason the Wii was so successful is
because they sidestepped everything else and this is kind of the same idea I
think I mean it's not going to take off anywhere nearly as big as the Wii but I
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black and white screen it's not backlit but it is super reflective which seems
to be the case like the actual screen itself isn't super reflective it's got
like kind of almost matte finish to it but the backing is reflective which is
what causes the contrast to be so so the battery is they don't say but 14 days of
standby clock battery and eight hours of active use which is pretty good I mean
you're going to get pretty good battery life without a backlight on the LCD yeah
there's the CPU 168 megahertz cortex M7
that is pathetic this screen is 400 by
240 one bit it doesn't have to crunch too much at all it has 16 megabytes of
RAM and 4 gigs of flash I was wrong at 116 it's four gigs of Flash and honestly
that's really all it needs this is basically the specs that you might find in like uh not a 90s but like an early
2000s handheld game console like a gba
or something except you know the screen is significantly less colorful this
original gbas are pretty damn those original gpas were just like this they
didn't have a backlight oh right it's got an accelerometer so you could
totally do like a like a fishing game if you really wanted to that would be a
good game I think like obviously it's got enough horsepower to do like scaling
and rotation and all that kind of stuff with Sprites oh yeah they were behind
Untitled Goose game and firewatch it is
interesting to see all of the game cards
because they're not in color over here you wouldn't know that the puck was
supposed to be orange brown orange like
I like how they kind of went with the B cutesy angle of it like it's not super
Kitty kind of way it's cutesy in like a like a very casual kind of way which is
what this is all about yeah the developer site let's head over there that's their browser-based editor for
Playdate uh I need to sign in but you can make a playdate game in your browser
you can Tinker with it you can do whatever you want with it basically and
that's the best kind of Hardware it's something that you can basically just
Tinker with and that's great and especially for I don't know hobbyists or
even kids like I don't know if this is kind of geared towards kids like the
name would suggest that it's a very Kitty device it's also just attackable
and I like that and it this this control scheme too I really like I didn't think
that I would I thought it would be like a gimmick kind of thing it's kind of
grown on me very quickly like it's become very intuitive which makes sense
when you think about it because we we kind of take it for granted these days
to have a d-pad game like buttons here maybe joysticks but that's after a lot
of trial and error yeah speaking of which as I'm handling it here it's probably getting ready to take it apart
this is really rigid I can't even get it to Creek really the only thing I can
actually do is like accidentally click buttons it's really nice so let's get
this back panel off here there we go oh wow that's like
basically nothing so the battery is
fellow Tech 760 milliamp hour I don't
really have it habits whatsoever here
uh-oh it didn't like that oh oh
there we go okay I'm just gonna put this back together and no one will ever know
we were inside
no one will ever know we were ever inside of this thing what it what else
is there to say but this is a super super simple little device it's not
meant to be a powerhouse it's not meant to be like the the most amazing game
console ever it's meant to be like gimmicky and fun and that's kind of what
you get out of this this yellow color scheme here it's not something you'd
normally see in your home but I pay 179 dollars for this thing maybe not but
maybe I'm not the target audience for this this has potential and it has the
potential to make me want to spend 179 dollars for it 24 games right now though
is a little bit low I know there are games you can buy on like h.io you know
you can just side load onto the console with USB and that's another thing too
like you can develop your own games I don't know I I really like it I'm just
not sure if I would buy it that's kind of the bottom line for me right now maybe if they had like a game store and
the price of the hardware was like 99 or something like that then it would
probably entice me a lot more I know this is their first Hardware project and
this relatively low volume that's why they're like taking them in waves so
that is part of the factor for the cost but I mean
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