he company behind Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game, and it aims to bring Game Boy-style charm to the 21st century. Revealed today, Playdate is a small, yellow handheld with a easy directional pad, two foremost face buttons and an innovate hand-crank which is bound to open up new and thrilling gameplay avenues.
It’s additionally acquired a high-end black-and-white show which guarantees to be way more superior than a Game Boy display screen, with Panic telling The Verge that “it has no grid lines, no blurring, is extremely sharp and clear, and has much higher resolution,” additional stating that, “It sounds odd to say, however: it’s really a ‘premium’ black-and-white display screen.”
The company plans to keep these games a secret until they arrive on the handheld in an effort to surprise its customers, simply stating that, “Some are short, some long, some are experimental, some traditional. All are fun.”
Playdate and its first season of games will launch in early 2020 and will be priced at $149 (around £118 / AU$217).
