Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why does it need to be commercially viable? What’s wrong with doing it for love of the game?

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  • markz@suppo.fi ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a product for sale.

    There are tons of people who are fine not profiting from their cottage industry projects, but it’s not expected that someone wants to lose money on them.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Is this…sarcasm?

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    • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      no, this is earnest anti-commercialism

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      • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think that’s a great model for the maker who is clearly trying to SELL things.

        Seems that might be a competing idea…

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• Peffse@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, we have Evercade and it’s not failed yet.

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  • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Evercade has the advantage of a huge software library to draw from (they have a few native games but the majority are emulated), whereas this will only run it’s own software, which puts it at a disadvantage.

    Mind you, the Playdate seems to be going well.

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    • ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think one of the things playdate has going for them is they are portable.

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      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Good point. With the specs fully open, hopefully we get a portable of this, at some point.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Evercade sitributes digitally.

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    • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No they don’t? The games are only sold on physical cartridges (or built-in in some models).

      There’s no online store or downloadable games, besides the ‘game of the month’ trial thing they occasionally run.

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