OP (playdate): >teenage engineering >cool ass hardware >cool ass software experience >zero use cases >overpriced for what it does
You (rabbit r1): >teenage engineering >cool ass hardware >cool ass software experience >zero use cases >overpriced for what it does
can you see the patterns?
>Teenage engineering >start getting a desire to make some music again >Watch videos of people fricking around with synths >looks pretty cool >Find out about the op 1 >Looks cool >Look up the price >Can't be more than like $700 right? >$2k >nevermind
Why are they like this
most music devices are stupid anyways. You can recreate the thing of most electronic insturments with a fricking numpad. if companies made a musical electronic device that just acted as controllers and made another device(a computer) the thing that acutally plays the thing prices would be alot cheaper.
well you can just use vsts in fl studio or something
same thing happened to me, the prices are absurd. I might go back to make music now that I've switched to Live, but ngl, no matter which tools I use, I still suck at music :^)
I only played brass in highschool like 15 years ago. You're light years ahead of me
2 months ago
Anonymous
but why do electronic instruments need to play music on its own. why cant it just be a controller for the computer who acutally plays the sound.
2 months ago
Anonymous
why don't you build it anon?
2 months ago
Anonymous
but see my point. if they did that then costs would be alot cheaper. besides most people plug those devices into your computer
2 months ago
Anonymous
I think I agree with you anon, are you sure there are no products like this on the market now? Also I'm sure people that buy synths might be apprehensive about a product like that because they don't want to get fricked over by the software. For example forcing you to upgrade or becoming deprecated if the company goes out of business
those fricking exist you fricking moron they're called midi controllers
2 months ago
Anonymous
but there damn expensive and over engineered
2 months ago
Anonymous
a decent MIDI keyboard is like 400 bucks.
2 months ago
Anonymous
MIDI keyboards don't do anything on their own.
2 months ago
Anonymous
t. genuine moron
2 months ago
Anonymous
they usually have MIDI input/output/Thru, CV out and Gate out so you can use it to play your modular.
They have sequencers and memory for different instruments, loads of addressable nobs for each instrument.
You can get simple one that has none of that for 50bux MIDI controllers can be very complex or very simple.
>made another device(a computer) the thing that acutally plays the thing prices would be alot cheaper
Oh that's why Ableton Push costs as much as 10 Volcas.
same thing happened to me, the prices are absurd. I might go back to make music now that I've switched to Live, but ngl, no matter which tools I use, I still suck at music :^)
decent industrial design isn't worth $2k. They're just pretending to be the Apple of music production devices and charge more than they're worth
2 months ago
Anonymous
>decent industrial design isn't worth $2k
k then, find me cheap well designed and well manufactured tech products
2 months ago
Anonymous
teenage engineering is generally not built that well so your point is invalid
2 months ago
Anonymous
>well manufactured
Teenage Engineering can't manufacture for shit. You've got like a 40% chance of getting a defective unit whenever you buy anything from them. 30% if that thing is an OP-1 field.
Don't but the field. It's overrated
Get the original on eBay/reverb/locally for under $700 and it will hold its value for you to resell if you don't like it
I did this twice and only ate the shipping costs really.
They are really fun to play with but both times I've found I don't have the knack for making full songs.
If is get back into gamedev I may do it again to make some repetitive background music
maybe I'll do that if I decide to learn production. I'm currently cursed with the attribute of my interests waning and waxing over time so who knows if I'll get to it
Get a used Field if you can find one. The original OP-1 is a decade old and it shows. Sound quality is garbage, the whole signal chain is in mono, sample length is cut in half and you only get one tape reel. Storage is also significantly smaller in general.
well I'm not trying to make money off of it. I used to play trombone in highschool but I don't think I'm cut out for performance art, just can't let loose and express myself.
>all you need is a midi keyboard
This. There's unimaginable amounts of overpriced crap for sale to "musicians." It's every bit as bad as audiophile.
If you are just "screwing around" with keys this is all you need, and you can go a lot cheaper, but it's solid and will do MIDI.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Like, here's a basic ass unbranded MIDI keyboard, if you just want MIDI controller to PC and nothing else, for game dev or whatever.
This is as much as you "need" to spend to get basic keys input to a computer. I probably wouldn't gig with it but perfectly usable for home hobby crap.
Not saying there's not a use case for $2000 composers, just that if you need one, you'll know it, and don't need my shitty advice.
Maybe you wouldn't get flooded with AI if you made more than the same shitty EDM beats and top40 pop songs a trillion other electronic "musicians" already made.
Heh, kid.
I bought mine for ~450 bucks in 2014 when people completely stopped caring, right before it got popular again.
I still love this thing, all pricing memes aside it's a solid, probably would have dropped 1000 bucks on the Field, but skandinavians are fricking insane when it comes to pricing.
https://i.imgur.com/ZICW5ZL.jpg
why did it fail. Besides it being a overpriced piece of shit
It's marketed exclusively towards millenials, that's the problem.
They make gimmicky consooomer toys for man children with gayMAN salaries. No one genuinely uses these "products". They're like those cyberdecks, pointless.
>cool ass hardware
no reason they chose black and white other than to cut costs. A colored dispaly would allow game devs to still be able to make games in black n white. If you can still code games in black in white with a colored display and code in color if devs want to then whats the point
plus the sdk is closed source same with the console
April Fools. They are everywhere.
[...]
Never seen before this thread.
Seems to be code for: cool design and idea, to address a problem that no-one has.
The sort of stuff you come up with when out with friends in your teens and 20s, and starts with someone saying "Wouldn't it be cool if..."
>teenage engineering
That's the name of the company you fricking midwits
2 months ago
Anonymous
No the name of the company is play date you fricking moron, teenage engineering is one of the games they make for it
2 months ago
Anonymous Mogul
Oh my bad forgot about that, that's the one where you use the crank to wrench in screws on an assembly line in china right
>modern society is a mistake because a fool and his money are easily parted
Your l33t trad redpilled society that never existed had such issues as well.
pretty sure it directly reaches your eyes, otherwise you wouldn't see it. otherwise you couldn't count a backlight as "directly" reaching your eyes either because it has to go through something to get there.
2 months ago
Anonymous
pretty sure the point was being made that the light source does not shine directly into your eyes
2 months ago
Anonymous
the same applies to backlight
2 months ago
Anonymous
how do we see colors if all the light comes from the sun?
plus a black and white display for muh nostalgia when a colored display could also display black and white and also color giving tinkers more options. with 199$ they chose to make a black and white display with NO BACKLIGHT
games from the era it draws from simply suck. it's true, but boomers on here will find ways to cope. if you just accept all old games suck, everything related to modern video games starts to make sense
I'd rather pay for a goon session assistant. It could change adult material on the fly, narrate to you the nasties, most vile NSFW fanfictions, or even RP with you.
just so you know this piece of shit is not only closed source but also has DRM. they want you to pay money for these low quailty chinese piece of shit games. It has the specs of a chinese bootleg console except with even worse specs for 100$+ more dollars.
Because nobody likes shit quirky indie games, people buy handhelds so they can put all their pirated ROMs on them. I can get a Game Chink for a quarter of the price of this masturbatory hipster project and it'll be better in every respect. It can then gather dust in a drawer while I play games on a real computer, like everyone should.
It didn't. They had trouble keeping up with demand. They only just now got out of the preorders. It's been quite successful.
I'd imagine it wasn't Nintendo Switch levels of popular because there isn't money to be made with it. Making a Playdate game isn't going to pay your dev studio's employees or even pay your own bills, not because the Play date isn't popular but because it's pretty strictly a hobbyist console. It's very intentionally designed for people who want to make their own games, learn to make their own games or share the games they made with others, presumably for free. The eShop they added was very last minute.
They don't disappear, they add to your library. Even if they do disappear for whatever reason you could just find them on the internet and reinstall them.
>allow me to be the arbiter of who does and does not get to contribute to cultural norms while simultaneously justifying my position as arbiter by positioning those I don't like as authoritarians who want to control cultural norms
lol. lmao.
>damage-control samegayging this hard
(this is the part where you inspect-element the (You)s away and post screencaps "proving" not everyone hates your insufferable /misc/ bullshit)
>allow me to be the arbiter of who does and does not get to contribute to cultural norms while simultaneously justifying my position as arbiter by positioning those I don't like as authoritarians who want to control cultural norms
lol. lmao.
Homeland Security is literally setting up centers to monitor chat in video games (https://theintercept.com/2024/03/09/fbi-dhs-gamers-extremism-violence/), and you’re arguing that people not buying games from companies that actively hate them is "authoritarian"
>conservatives actually love cancel culture, just not when lefties use it: example #42069
>not consooming is literally violence! >won’t someone please think of the profit margin of the multinational corporation!
watching leftypol become little more than corporate boot stickers has been endlessly amusing
2 months ago
Anonymous
>nooo you need to care about my literally-who GG2 targets if the week because... >.... >...Homeland Security!
pathetic
2 months ago
Anonymous
>not consooming is literally violence!
never said anything like that. it's just funny to see you engaging in the same behaviors you hate lefties for. nobody said cancel culture is "literally violence." >won’t someone please think of the profit margin of the multinational corporation!
also didn't say anything like that either. see previous, you're clearly not obligated to not buy [product] if you do not like [product]. no one is seething over the fact that you won't buy [product]. that's a hell of a lot of specificity to glean from a single sentence. >watching leftypol become little more than corporate boot stickers has been endlessly amusing
you are very bad at conversational sleight of hand.
2 months ago
Anonymous
yep, the feds are involved in Sweetbaby inc and all that cultural shifting israelitery, this is why they are so butthurt when someone mentions them. >why do I care >this is not 2015
all fedshits that need a dose of waco
2 months ago
Anonymous
>and you’re arguing that people not buying games from companies that actively hate them is "authoritarian"
Reading comprehension: F-
2 months ago
Anonymous
What's wrong with his reading comprehension?
How is a boycott "cancel culture"?
Is he calling for specific people to be fired? Is he calling for people to be shunned for their beliefs?
Also "overlords" would imply authoritarian measures.
It's interesting you just brush off the whole Homeland Security thing too.
I hate both rightoids and leftoids, but the rightoids are right on this one. Cope.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Also "overlords" would imply authoritarian measures.
You also receive an F- in reading comprehension apparently.
2 months ago
Anonymous
F-, care to explain homosexual?
2 months ago
Anonymous
Pay closer attention to who is being labeled the authoritarian here, and who the one assigning that label is. Both of you have gotten that wrong so far.
2 months ago
Anonymous
That's not an explanation. Try again.
>i-it's a boycott when WE do it, it's cancel culture when THEY do it
cope
Left wing boycotts aren't cancel culture though. Cancel culture is getting someone fired because you disliked their opinion on something. You can try to frame me as a hypocrite, but I am not saying left wing boycotts are cancel culture either.
Also, cope.
2 months ago
Anonymous
Let me refine my previous statement slightly. Shutting someone out because of their beliefs and getting people fired is an example of cancel culture.
Not buying a product because you don't want to support a particular company is another.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Maya Kramer is a whole company now
2 months ago
Anonymous
I don't even know who that is.
2 months ago
Anonymous
then why are you reflexively defending the targeting/shunning of Maya Kramer as a 'boycott' and not cancel culture despite that very action directly counting towards what you yourself define as cancel culture?
2 months ago
Anonymous
I just saw SBI and "DEI brownshirts" immediately pops into my brain. Because that's what it is.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>idk dude I just popped into the thread without reading any of it (because in an illiterate moron) and immediately took a side despite not understanding enough of the discussion to contribute to it in any meaningful way (because, again, I'm an illiterate moron)
2 months ago
Anonymous
>has a literal Manchurian Candidate style trigger word that forces him to recite the Script at will
Get deprogrammed soon <3
2 months ago
Anonymous
>That's not an explanation. Try again.
Yes, it is. You just can't read. Which I why I graded you an F-.
2 months ago
Anonymous
No u.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>i-it's a boycott when WE do it, it's cancel culture when THEY do it
cope
Because the crank is a moronic idea. Should've just made a Gameboy Color clone and kept the bite sized game idea and a focus on homebrew (and of course have a Game Boy emulator)
Well, we all know the Playdate was a grift against moronic millennials paying $200 for $15 in parts. The Playdate's only interesting idea was making bite sized games and drip feeding them. But that's it, the crank is moronic. And you're moronic for buying it and not seeing it for what it was, a ripoff financial exploitation device for upper middle class white trannies.
It was an overpriced fancy fidget spinner targeted towards novelty chasers. What's the point paying for a device that costs as much as a smartphone but with a much smaller library of games?
i was interested in it for a while but it took them like a billion years to actually release so i stopped caring. seriously i think i signed up for the mailing list when i was in high school
Almost 300$ for shitty reinvention of Gameboy with shitty gimmick controls and weird "live service" way of releasing games. Also obnoxious promotional campaign composed of paid "social influencers" and made up non-descriptive slogans like "teenage engineering".
I can get a beaten up, hacked 3DS for 1/10th of Playdate's price and get vastly superior experience with it.
>why buy new interesting thing when instead you could buy cheapshit discarded garbage for a couple pennies and a used napkin?
why do IQfytards always do this
>being this assblasted about a $200 yellow microconsole
2 months ago
Anonymous
>being assblasted about someone not buying your 200$ shitware.
Buy an ad homosexual.
2 months ago
Anonymous
nobody cares what you refuse to buy, that's actually the thing I've been trying to communicate to you this whole time. you do not matter at all.
2 months ago
Anonymous
>Thread about shit >Someone discuss shit >Tells you that it's shit >NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU NOT LIKING MY SHIIIIIT!!!
Are you moronic? Why are you in this thread if you supposedly don't care about people's opinion about it?
2 months ago
Anonymous
>thread about shit >barges into the thread to talk about unrelated shit >throws a fricking fit when no one goes along with it
you might be the moronic one here.
They were woke from the start, though.
I figured Panic made a toy for a bunch of upper-middle-class Mac-using baizuo and I guess they have an interesting side business that’s scratching a creative itch that they couldn’t get from making a very good SFTP+dog client (Transmit) and a Mac-assed text editor (Nova).
I bought one, and that describes me to a t. A few hundred dollars isn't really a notable amount to me, and something about the stupid fricking console really appealed to me.
I have it on my desk at work now, as just a little curio.
I also like the PCs, and the original price of the OP1 ($799) was reasonable for a synth with its feature set
It’s when they started doing ridiculous shit like the $2000 OP1 Field that they jumped the shark and now they exclusively deal in consoom products
What's with the "teenage engineering" angle I'm seeing recently? A way to attract investors thinking this means it'll be a hit among zoomers?
It's not ugly or anything, I just don't get it.
Never seen before this thread.
Seems to be code for: cool design and idea, to address a problem that no-one has.
The sort of stuff you come up with when out with friends in your teens and 20s, and starts with someone saying "Wouldn't it be cool if..."
The idea of unique handheld games like this is cute, until you realize that it's not really sustainable for anyone unless you're one of those adults/pedos with a plastic toy collection, or one of those chads who disposes of car batteries in the ocean.
The economy where we get to make stupid shit that has no reason to exist, have it fail because nobody wants it, and still get paid is ending
We're basically converting from a class of priests nobody understands but who are associated with great abundance to just another job
>teenage engineering
>Teenage engineering
>start getting a desire to make some music again
>Watch videos of people fricking around with synths
>looks pretty cool
>Find out about the op 1
>Looks cool
>Look up the price
>Can't be more than like $700 right?
>$2k
>nevermind
Why are they like this
>Why are they like this
because open mouth thumbnail people will pay $2k for them
most music devices are stupid anyways. You can recreate the thing of most electronic insturments with a fricking numpad. if companies made a musical electronic device that just acted as controllers and made another device(a computer) the thing that acutally plays the thing prices would be alot cheaper.
well you can just use vsts in fl studio or something
I only played brass in highschool like 15 years ago. You're light years ahead of me
but why do electronic instruments need to play music on its own. why cant it just be a controller for the computer who acutally plays the sound.
why don't you build it anon?
but see my point. if they did that then costs would be alot cheaper. besides most people plug those devices into your computer
I think I agree with you anon, are you sure there are no products like this on the market now? Also I'm sure people that buy synths might be apprehensive about a product like that because they don't want to get fricked over by the software. For example forcing you to upgrade or becoming deprecated if the company goes out of business
those fricking exist you fricking moron they're called midi controllers
but there damn expensive and over engineered
a decent MIDI keyboard is like 400 bucks.
MIDI keyboards don't do anything on their own.
t. genuine moron
they usually have MIDI input/output/Thru, CV out and Gate out so you can use it to play your modular.
They have sequencers and memory for different instruments, loads of addressable nobs for each instrument.
You can get simple one that has none of that for 50bux MIDI controllers can be very complex or very simple.
>made another device(a computer) the thing that acutally plays the thing prices would be alot cheaper
Oh that's why Ableton Push costs as much as 10 Volcas.
same thing happened to me, the prices are absurd. I might go back to make music now that I've switched to Live, but ngl, no matter which tools I use, I still suck at music :^)
>literally gets lured by their design
>MMHHH GUISE WHY DO IT COST MUCH???
0 self reflection
decent industrial design isn't worth $2k. They're just pretending to be the Apple of music production devices and charge more than they're worth
>decent industrial design isn't worth $2k
k then, find me cheap well designed and well manufactured tech products
teenage engineering is generally not built that well so your point is invalid
>well manufactured
Teenage Engineering can't manufacture for shit. You've got like a 40% chance of getting a defective unit whenever you buy anything from them. 30% if that thing is an OP-1 field.
Don't but the field. It's overrated
Get the original on eBay/reverb/locally for under $700 and it will hold its value for you to resell if you don't like it
I did this twice and only ate the shipping costs really.
They are really fun to play with but both times I've found I don't have the knack for making full songs.
If is get back into gamedev I may do it again to make some repetitive background music
maybe I'll do that if I decide to learn production. I'm currently cursed with the attribute of my interests waning and waxing over time so who knows if I'll get to it
Get a used Field if you can find one. The original OP-1 is a decade old and it shows. Sound quality is garbage, the whole signal chain is in mono, sample length is cut in half and you only get one tape reel. Storage is also significantly smaller in general.
honestly I got out of electronic music, that shit will get flooded with AI anyways. just pick up a real instrument and do live music.
if you really want to bother all you need is a midi keyboard (and not even that since you can also use your keyboard)
the rest of the market is autismo toys for rich kids but will mostly be bought by broke kids and resold on secondary market.
well I'm not trying to make money off of it. I used to play trombone in highschool but I don't think I'm cut out for performance art, just can't let loose and express myself.
>all you need is a midi keyboard
This. There's unimaginable amounts of overpriced crap for sale to "musicians." It's every bit as bad as audiophile.
If you are just "screwing around" with keys this is all you need, and you can go a lot cheaper, but it's solid and will do MIDI.
Like, here's a basic ass unbranded MIDI keyboard, if you just want MIDI controller to PC and nothing else, for game dev or whatever.
This is as much as you "need" to spend to get basic keys input to a computer. I probably wouldn't gig with it but perfectly usable for home hobby crap.
Not saying there's not a use case for $2000 composers, just that if you need one, you'll know it, and don't need my shitty advice.
Maybe you wouldn't get flooded with AI if you made more than the same shitty EDM beats and top40 pop songs a trillion other electronic "musicians" already made.
I don't know, why DO you care?
how is AI going to stop you from making music? what are you afraid of? just make shit you enjoy and that's that.
There's only so much time you can invest into something before you really need to be making money from doing it, otherwise you starve.
He doesn't have the talent to make anything original and is focused purely on what makes money. Same with all the "artists" who fear AI.
I bought one when it was $800 on 2012 and nobody knew who they were lmao
Heh, kid.
I bought mine for ~450 bucks in 2014 when people completely stopped caring, right before it got popular again.
I still love this thing, all pricing memes aside it's a solid, probably would have dropped 1000 bucks on the Field, but skandinavians are fricking insane when it comes to pricing.
It's marketed exclusively towards millenials, that's the problem.
>You have no idea what I'm capable of.
>$1,599
>for a particle board table with thin-ass wire legs and nothing else
death to capitalist swine and more importantly death to all Swedes
what the FRICK
they make a lot of stuff like that. have you seen the toy car they make?
just learn embedded electronics, buy a couple of dev boards and make one out of junk for like $20 and 4 hours of labor
my objective is to make music not build electronics
They make gimmicky consooomer toys for man children with gayMAN salaries. No one genuinely uses these "products". They're like those cyberdecks, pointless.
>Can't be more than like $700 right?
I had the chance to buy one for $600 back in 2018
they need to be sued for price gouging
Just download FL studio and start making stuff. You do not need to pay 700$ to get back into making music.
And it's worth nowhere even near that price. They don't even have good technical support to justify it.
Dumb shit like your playdate and picrel make.me think modern society was a mistake.
OP (playdate):
>teenage engineering
>cool ass hardware
>cool ass software experience
>zero use cases
>overpriced for what it does
You (rabbit r1):
>teenage engineering
>cool ass hardware
>cool ass software experience
>zero use cases
>overpriced for what it does
can you see the patterns?
>cool ass hardware
no reason they chose black and white other than to cut costs. A colored dispaly would allow game devs to still be able to make games in black n white. If you can still code games in black in white with a colored display and code in color if devs want to then whats the point
plus the sdk is closed source same with the console
plus the little side thing is a total gimmick that breaks down easily and oxidies after like 2 months of use
why are redditors so afraid of patina?
That's not just patina, it's magnesium oxide, shits cancerous.
It isn't, it's even used as a food additive. It even got a E number: E530
lmao those sharp memory displays are way more expensive than your average chink color lcd
>cool ass hardware
no
>cool ass software experience
no
What's with the "teenage engineering" angle I'm seeing recently? A way to attract investors thinking this means it'll be a hit among zoomers?
It's not ugly or anything, I just don't get it.
>teenage engineering
That's the name of the company you fricking midwits
No the name of the company is play date you fricking moron, teenage engineering is one of the games they make for it
Oh my bad forgot about that, that's the one where you use the crank to wrench in screws on an assembly line in china right
leave society be a monke
>modern society is a mistake because a fool and his money are easily parted
Your l33t trad redpilled society that never existed had such issues as well.
modern society is a mistake because we stopped hanging people who see other people as prey
your phone can do everything that can
Did it fail?
I've never heard of it so yeah
It'd be nice as a novelty item... If they charged 30 dollars for it.
these are the people who buy this shit by the way
having a colored screen ruins the simplicity of the playdate even though it being colored allows devs to still make monochrome games.
>TranscendentalLove
99% chance this homie a serial killer
>pic
Kindles and other ereaders still aren't backlit, they're frontlit. The difference is the light is aiming at the screen instead of at your eyes
then how does the light reach your eyes moron?
Indirectly
pretty sure it directly reaches your eyes, otherwise you wouldn't see it. otherwise you couldn't count a backlight as "directly" reaching your eyes either because it has to go through something to get there.
pretty sure the point was being made that the light source does not shine directly into your eyes
the same applies to backlight
how do we see colors if all the light comes from the sun?
They actually a re sidelit
this reminds me of those weird milleanel restaurants. you know the ones with a chalkboard and colored lighting everywhere.
People largely want devices and software that play old games they remember from their childhood, not new games that are designed to feel old.
plus a black and white display for muh nostalgia when a colored display could also display black and white and also color giving tinkers more options. with 199$ they chose to make a black and white display with NO BACKLIGHT
overpriced garbage
games from the era it draws from simply suck. it's true, but boomers on here will find ways to cope. if you just accept all old games suck, everything related to modern video games starts to make sense
What even is this? Looks moronic.
I'd rather pay for a goon session assistant. It could change adult material on the fly, narrate to you the nasties, most vile NSFW fanfictions, or even RP with you.
it did not.
flash games are better than this. id understand if it was a portable flash game player and it costed 50-60$
I never understood the point of this thing. Why does it have a fricking crank?
Stupid shit overpriced shit gimmick shit wokey shit stupid fricking hipster crap shit moronic dumb shit scam crap
just so you know this piece of shit is not only closed source but also has DRM. they want you to pay money for these low quailty chinese piece of shit games. It has the specs of a chinese bootleg console except with even worse specs for 100$+ more dollars.
Who the frick wants a black and white screen?
Because nobody likes shit quirky indie games, people buy handhelds so they can put all their pirated ROMs on them. I can get a Game Chink for a quarter of the price of this masturbatory hipster project and it'll be better in every respect. It can then gather dust in a drawer while I play games on a real computer, like everyone should.
>make gimmick product that would be a fun toy if it was modestly priced
>charge out the ass for it
>product fails
Every time.
Did it really fail? It was always intended to be a niche hipster device.
It didn't. They had trouble keeping up with demand. They only just now got out of the preorders. It's been quite successful.
I'd imagine it wasn't Nintendo Switch levels of popular because there isn't money to be made with it. Making a Playdate game isn't going to pay your dev studio's employees or even pay your own bills, not because the Play date isn't popular but because it's pretty strictly a hobbyist console. It's very intentionally designed for people who want to make their own games, learn to make their own games or share the games they made with others, presumably for free. The eShop they added was very last minute.
slop with games that you don't own and disappear in place of new ones
They don't disappear, they add to your library. Even if they do disappear for whatever reason you could just find them on the internet and reinstall them.
Reminder Maya Kramer is involved with this and also Sweet Baby. Yup, the ride never ends
why do I care
Because culture shouldn't be in the hands of dogmatic overlords even if you agree with their morals.
But playdate is a failed/niche product, it hasn't replaced any culture
>bing bing wahoo
>culture
>allow me to be the arbiter of who does and does not get to contribute to cultural norms while simultaneously justifying my position as arbiter by positioning those I don't like as authoritarians who want to control cultural norms
lol. lmao.
>conservatives actually love cancel culture, just not when lefties use it: example #42069
Truthnuke.
>damage-control samegayging this hard
(this is the part where you inspect-element the (You)s away and post screencaps "proving" not everyone hates your insufferable /misc/ bullshit)
Shills hate this post.
They hated him because he said the truth
Homeland Security is literally setting up centers to monitor chat in video games (https://theintercept.com/2024/03/09/fbi-dhs-gamers-extremism-violence/), and you’re arguing that people not buying games from companies that actively hate them is "authoritarian"
>not consooming is literally violence!
>won’t someone please think of the profit margin of the multinational corporation!
watching leftypol become little more than corporate boot stickers has been endlessly amusing
>nooo you need to care about my literally-who GG2 targets if the week because...
>....
>...Homeland Security!
pathetic
>not consooming is literally violence!
never said anything like that. it's just funny to see you engaging in the same behaviors you hate lefties for. nobody said cancel culture is "literally violence."
>won’t someone please think of the profit margin of the multinational corporation!
also didn't say anything like that either. see previous, you're clearly not obligated to not buy [product] if you do not like [product]. no one is seething over the fact that you won't buy [product]. that's a hell of a lot of specificity to glean from a single sentence.
>watching leftypol become little more than corporate boot stickers has been endlessly amusing
you are very bad at conversational sleight of hand.
yep, the feds are involved in Sweetbaby inc and all that cultural shifting israelitery, this is why they are so butthurt when someone mentions them.
>why do I care
>this is not 2015
all fedshits that need a dose of waco
>and you’re arguing that people not buying games from companies that actively hate them is "authoritarian"
Reading comprehension: F-
What's wrong with his reading comprehension?
How is a boycott "cancel culture"?
Is he calling for specific people to be fired? Is he calling for people to be shunned for their beliefs?
Also "overlords" would imply authoritarian measures.
It's interesting you just brush off the whole Homeland Security thing too.
I hate both rightoids and leftoids, but the rightoids are right on this one. Cope.
>Also "overlords" would imply authoritarian measures.
You also receive an F- in reading comprehension apparently.
F-, care to explain homosexual?
Pay closer attention to who is being labeled the authoritarian here, and who the one assigning that label is. Both of you have gotten that wrong so far.
That's not an explanation. Try again.
Left wing boycotts aren't cancel culture though. Cancel culture is getting someone fired because you disliked their opinion on something. You can try to frame me as a hypocrite, but I am not saying left wing boycotts are cancel culture either.
Also, cope.
Let me refine my previous statement slightly. Shutting someone out because of their beliefs and getting people fired is an example of cancel culture.
Not buying a product because you don't want to support a particular company is another.
>Maya Kramer is a whole company now
I don't even know who that is.
then why are you reflexively defending the targeting/shunning of Maya Kramer as a 'boycott' and not cancel culture despite that very action directly counting towards what you yourself define as cancel culture?
I just saw SBI and "DEI brownshirts" immediately pops into my brain. Because that's what it is.
>idk dude I just popped into the thread without reading any of it (because in an illiterate moron) and immediately took a side despite not understanding enough of the discussion to contribute to it in any meaningful way (because, again, I'm an illiterate moron)
>has a literal Manchurian Candidate style trigger word that forces him to recite the Script at will
Get deprogrammed soon <3
>That's not an explanation. Try again.
Yes, it is. You just can't read. Which I why I graded you an F-.
No u.
>i-it's a boycott when WE do it, it's cancel culture when THEY do it
cope
It's not 2015 anymore, no one gives a shit.
what does this have to do with anything? the device itself is fine, its just overpriced and lacks compatibility
Too few buttons
The Game Boy had more buttons
Because the crank is a moronic idea. Should've just made a Gameboy Color clone and kept the bite sized game idea and a focus on homebrew (and of course have a Game Boy emulator)
So basically make another of what everyone else has already done.
And there are already several GB emulators in development.
You can emulate the playdate on the steam deck and it looks x1000 better
Well, we all know the Playdate was a grift against moronic millennials paying $200 for $15 in parts. The Playdate's only interesting idea was making bite sized games and drip feeding them. But that's it, the crank is moronic. And you're moronic for buying it and not seeing it for what it was, a ripoff financial exploitation device for upper middle class white trannies.
> queue nintendo shitcube
... what the frick is teenage engineering?
An industrial design firm specializing in electronics and niche electronic musical instruments.
swedish cucks making expensive electronics with weird shit tacked on at a first glance
useless trash for homosexual nonces who deserve euthanasia
Better question is why would anyone expect it to succeed
It was an overpriced fancy fidget spinner targeted towards novelty chasers. What's the point paying for a device that costs as much as a smartphone but with a much smaller library of games?
i was interested in it for a while but it took them like a billion years to actually release so i stopped caring. seriously i think i signed up for the mailing list when i was in high school
Almost 300$ for shitty reinvention of Gameboy with shitty gimmick controls and weird "live service" way of releasing games. Also obnoxious promotional campaign composed of paid "social influencers" and made up non-descriptive slogans like "teenage engineering".
I can get a beaten up, hacked 3DS for 1/10th of Playdate's price and get vastly superior experience with it.
>why buy new interesting thing when instead you could buy cheapshit discarded garbage for a couple pennies and a used napkin?
why do IQfytards always do this
>interesting thing
>literally overpriced plastic e-waste
>but obviously there are some moronic consoomers that justify paaaaaying for literal shit.
why do IQfytards always do this
>being this assblasted about a $200 yellow microconsole
>being assblasted about someone not buying your 200$ shitware.
Buy an ad homosexual.
nobody cares what you refuse to buy, that's actually the thing I've been trying to communicate to you this whole time. you do not matter at all.
>Thread about shit
>Someone discuss shit
>Tells you that it's shit
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOO I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOU NOT LIKING MY SHIIIIIT!!!
Are you moronic? Why are you in this thread if you supposedly don't care about people's opinion about it?
>thread about shit
>barges into the thread to talk about unrelated shit
>throws a fricking fit when no one goes along with it
you might be the moronic one here.
They sold like 70k units already, how is that a failure?
Go woke, go broke.
They were woke from the start, though.
I figured Panic made a toy for a bunch of upper-middle-class Mac-using baizuo and I guess they have an interesting side business that’s scratching a creative itch that they couldn’t get from making a very good SFTP+dog client (Transmit) and a Mac-assed text editor (Nova).
I bought one, and that describes me to a t. A few hundred dollars isn't really a notable amount to me, and something about the stupid fricking console really appealed to me.
I have it on my desk at work now, as just a little curio.
you can sell anything anon, its a cultural failure
>CRANK THE LITTLE HANDLE moron
Aww I remember this. Didn't realize it died. I was always curious about the crank games
>Didn't realize it died.
It didn't? Wasn't the play date a moderate success?
i'm not buying a shitty wind-up toy when retro handhelds exist
Teenage Engineering make overpriced stuff - but they also randomly made by far the best deal in music hardware (pic related)
I also like the PCs, and the original price of the OP1 ($799) was reasonable for a synth with its feature set
It’s when they started doing ridiculous shit like the $2000 OP1 Field that they jumped the shark and now they exclusively deal in consoom products
LOOKS LIKE SHIT
...wtf
April Fools. They are everywhere.
Never seen before this thread.
Seems to be code for: cool design and idea, to address a problem that no-one has.
The sort of stuff you come up with when out with friends in your teens and 20s, and starts with someone saying "Wouldn't it be cool if..."
>why did it fail. Besides it being a overpriced piece of shit
It's a gimmick.
The idea of unique handheld games like this is cute, until you realize that it's not really sustainable for anyone unless you're one of those adults/pedos with a plastic toy collection, or one of those chads who disposes of car batteries in the ocean.
that thing looks moronic, so maybe that's why
>BING WAHOO!
because it's a gimmick, nothing more than that
I only think about this toy for aging millennials when i seen threads made by people who are incredibly angry that it exists.
The economy where we get to make stupid shit that has no reason to exist, have it fail because nobody wants it, and still get paid is ending
We're basically converting from a class of priests nobody understands but who are associated with great abundance to just another job
How can I take you seriously with this troony image
This looks like something from Zhong on aliexpress for $29
The name is gay.
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