Playdate Shipping Is Delayed to Early 2022, Too

Perhaps unsurprisingly at this bespeak, we're hither to report another delay, this time concerning the outset shipping wave of Playdate handheld gaming systems.

Previously scheduled to be sent out afterwards this year, the offset batch of 5K units suffered battery issues. The units had to exist sent back, their batteries replaced with make new ones from a unlike supplier. Needless to say, this meant a filibuster into early 2022.

The expert news: nosotros've already received the new batteries from the new supplier, and they're looking really impressive — they're exactly what we're hoping for, if non even better than earlier. We're extremely confident the new supplier can give Playdate the battery life we designed, and you deserve.

And at that place's ane huge silver lining:we're extremely glad that we found this potential resultbefore shipping you a Playdate.

In merely a few weeks, manufactory production will ramp upward to total speed over again, with new batteries in place. They'll be put in all units, fifty-fifty those we've already made.Just, information technology does hateful "Late 2021" units are now "Early 2022".

Panic has also had trouble getting chips due to the ongoing shortage. In fact, they've said their current CPU is back-ordered for two total years. Considering of this, Panic will be switching to a unlike, albeit similar, CPU cheers to a revision of Playdate's mainboard.

On the software side, though, the squad has been squashing bugs to the betoken where game delivery works as expected, and the file system is at present more robust. Panic then shared the ETA for Playdate's game-making tools, with Pulp (bachelor in browser for those interested in crafting simple games) having its Public Beta in Jan 2022 and the full Playdate SDK scheduled to hit in February 2022.

All things considered, Panic is a minor company. When delays touch even the likes of Valve, with the Steam Deck launch at present moved to February 2022, it'southward hard not to exist understanding.