[throwway120385]

The Playdate looks like what you'd make if someone only described the games kids made and shared on the TI-83 graphing calculator and then asked you to build a device.

[bigiain]

You say that like it's a bad thing...

It fits, in my head, very much in that same toy niche as Teenage Engineering's Pocket Operator series of music making devices: https://teenage.engineering/products/po

[flobosg]

Teenage Engineering designed the Playdate, in case you didn’t know: https://teenage.engineering/designs/playdate

[adampunk]

It’s for Gen-X dads to buy and pay themselves on the back about “productive constraints” while they play games that suck.

[tclancy]

Hey man, I was just trying to invent an excuse to buy one and you had to do that. Well … played.

[Brendinooo]

He's wrong. There are some great games that I've played on it. And I'm a Millennial dad. AND I think Panic is a cool company that's worth supporting, AND I think that, if you have the money sitting around, it's probably good to support weird niche hardware projects by indies.