While it slips easily into my pocket, I'd worry about the screen scratching. It's about 3 by 2.9 inches (76 by 74mm), and 9mm thick. Panic's collaborative design partner, the Swedish company Teenage Engineering, gave this handheld a really sharp modern spin on a retro design. It's square and fits in the palm of my hand. The Playdate next to the Analogue Pocket (left) and Nintendo Game & Watch (bottom). Here are my impressions so far with it by my side, constantly, for the last few weeks. Panic quotes international orders including applicable taxes and shipping, for example, $238 for the UK (£185 converted) and $203 for Australia (AU$275). Order now, however, and you can expect it to arrive sometime in 2023. The system should be arriving now (or soon) for those who already preordered. Or the sorts of weird ideas that sometimes come out of Nintendo. The freshness and experimental nature of the games reminds me of indie game jams, or the early days of game development on the iPhone. The lineup includes new games from Keita Takahashi (creator of Katamari Damacy), Zach Gage (maker of SpellTower and Really Bad Chess), and tons of developers and small game studios that are new to me. The games are all new, and all indie efforts. It's a gaming advent calendar in a little yellow box. The games are part of your game library once they've appeared. Instead, buying the system gets you 24 games in a "season" that will pop onto the handheld, two games at a time, once a week for 12 weeks. Panic's concept for how the Playdate works turns the concept of consoles on its head. Unclear how many games will be available.Small, nonbacklit screen hard to read sometimes.Panic - a company best known for developing beloved indie games like Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game - never made hardware before, and the $179 Playdate feels like an impossible dream item.
The Panic Playdate is the tiniest, quirkiest one of the bunch. Gaming handhelds have made a big comeback lately, with the OLED Nintendo Switch, Valve's Steam Deck, Qualcomm's push into gaming hardware with Razer, and even the Analogue Pocket. It has the look of a product you'd see on an episode of Portlandia: a small, twee device in Pikachu yellow, with a Game & Watch-esque black-and-white screen, that plays games and sometimes uses its side crank for inexplicable reasons. Panic's bizarre gaming handheld was announced years ago, something that seemed whimsical and almost like a joke. The Panic Playdate is my favorite gaming fidget toy. It's square, has a screen and it has a skinny crank that pops out from one side, like a tiny tail. Every night, before I go to sleep, I put my little yellow buddy into a sock and leave it by my bedside.
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