This cover marks the official unabashed and shameless outing of professional media as blatant shills

still true tho

play.date

>scroll down
>that crank
What were they thinking

>commiefornians sucking gay commiefornian dick as usual
I have never seen such a blatantly disposable collective of otherwise useless "tech" people than the millennials that can do nothing besides pretend to be hype about shit no reasonable human being can possibly give a shit about. They could have done this to greater effect with the gameboy and a cartridge / peripheral literal decades ago, but they didn't because it's catastrophically retarded.

Journos need to hang.

still right about that

>capitalistic product at its finest
>but I don't like it and it targets basedboys therefore it's "commie"

Every time

>fillet the corners, but not the edges
What kind of moron designed this?
Fucking take a look at all the handheld devices around you, you fucking idiot.
NONE of them have sharp 90° bends on their edges for a reason.

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Were they wrong?

I want to ___ Playdate-tan!!!

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Sounded pretty reasonable to me, a console with some kind of spinner is pretty rare.

Now, the price-tag? That's when I burst out laughing. Holy fuck, 150 bucks for something that should be 50, tops.

The iPhone has them. That's the design school these kids went to.

Honestly, it's not that big of a deal. With the way you'd grasp a thin object like this, an issue like this is the least of its worries.

>an utterly useless over-designed, over-priced commodity made to exploit the Baudrillan idea of sign value
>communist
This is peak late capitalism.
The entire idea behind the playdate is the exact opposite of what you see in those Quentin comics where he makes fun of people playing their bing bing wahoos in public.
It is meant to be a signifier of status and taste. It's marketed as a thing to flash at people so you can show them that you like "artistic video games" and that you are "not like the other gamers".
Or the people making it are just naive idiots, which is just as likely given that we're talking about video games.

Can you play gameboy games on it?

It was a different time, Wii U was already a failure and the Xbox One looked like a joke, they were not wrong.

>Wii U
>Early Xbone
>PS4

They weren't wrong. It was the only right option at the time.

Edge is a video game related graphic design magazine. You don't really buy it for their opinions on things.

>gimmick fucking FISHING ROD controller
>the games are a "surprise" and there's no information on any of them
>low res BLACK AND WHITE screen
>ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY NINE U S DOLLARS
in what universe is this entire project not a joke

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There better be a good fishing game on the system to sell it.

That's more of a general topic then an outright ad like OP's

This shit reeked of hit piece though

And at the time this was totally true, this was after Xbox made themselves totally irrelevant and WiiU bombed, PS4 was the only real console option.

the californiaverse

In ours.
See It is a product designed for young tech enthusiasts who want to show off how amazing they are because they can spend money on garbage.

Remember this thing?
It's the same.

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>dude what is marketing lmao
Fucking retard op, neck yourself

Trying to hold this would be worse for your hands than the GBA SP Controler.

is it the new OUYA?

I hope that ashen manages to review it.

He is not complaining about the people behind that device, he is complaining about EDGE.
Rightfully so. Yes, this is excellent marketing, but it's not journalism.

Why does it have a crank handle? Does it forgo batteries in place of having to wind it up?

Please, this thing is vapourware if ever I've seen it. There won't be anything for him to review.

>doesn't even read the first sentence of the post
>misses the point completely
>calls the guy a retard
braincel.jpg

The gaming media sold out years ago. Think about it, though. It's games and humans are desperate and greedy. Did you really think when big money flooded into gaming that sites and mags would maintain ther integrity? WTF did you think was gonna happen? Most people are selfish.

If it comes down to Money vs The Respect of Gamers, what do you think most will choose? There's your answer. Gamers actually hate each other. Take a look around. If they'll defend NRS, EA, Activision over the hobby, what makes you think they wouldn't sell out for free stuff and job security? They don't know you or me. They don't give a fuck.

gba sp

Yeah, that is a pretty good point.
But who reads this in the current year? Who is going to fall for this $150 rip off? Grandma?
I understand some shilling here and there, but this is some next level bullshit, like putting a Kickstarter on the cover of your magazine

game review magazines are dead

still remember back then when Computer Bild Spiele had extremely complicated rating systems that literally took everything into consideration
the required hardware specs, the gameplay, the graphics, the fidelity of those graphics, the bugs, the sound, the music, the FUCKING SUPPORT, multiplayer capabilities(tho a game didn't lose points if it didn't have MP), the price etc.
and each of those segments were divided into smaller sub-segments and you had it right there in a huge box next to the review, so you could instantly see "ahhh, the gameplay is good, the graphics are good, but the game has no controller support, no customer support AND many bugs, and it costs a shitton of money for a short playtime, maybe it's not a good investment.

Now they're literally like everyone else and blatantly paid off

>Computer Bild Spiele
The German magazine market started to worsen around the start of that magazine.
You have to give them props to explain what the fuck a CD drive is in every fucking issue. That was extremely newb-friendly, but in the end I only ever bought it when a decent game was included, which practically never happened.
And while the rating system looked fucking awesome, it was the magazine whose ratings I'd trust the least.

I have the exact same shirt from Uniqlo and it's like 8$

But does it say A.P.C. Kanye inside the neckline and is it washed Egyptian cotton?
I doubt it.

Paying 120$ for a plain white T-Shirt is too much

>some retards make a shitty retarded product
>"COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER BROS, CAPITALISM BTFO!"

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I thought the crank was for charging a dynamo for the battery like with an emergency radio. I had no idea it was supposed to be an input.

>criticizing the way the market operates is Commulist
Nobody is talking about revolution here, please be more literate.

And on Venezuela, it is very transparent that the whole situation is a US oil grab. I don't see how you can deny it

wtf nintendo is finished

They were 100% fucking correct.

It's always so trippy to look back at something and realize how shallow and fickle the rich and famous are. One minute you're on the cover of Time, then people find out you bought a billboard for Trump once and that's it, your lifelong, potentially gamechanging invention doesn't matter, your opinion doesn't matter, your career is over.

I bet Time doesn't even sell this issue in reprints.

I fucking hate this board

Literally put any popular video gaming character in the cover and you could say it's an ad for a game.

Selling my vita, psp 3000 and dsi right now

>unironically uses the phrase "late capitalism"
>"UHHHHM BUT I'M TOTALLY NOT A COMMIE
Get wrecked, commiecuck.

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>I don't see how you can deny it
americans are fucking masters at mental gymnastics thats how

This was a period where literally everybody was mocking the shit out of Microsoft for shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly with Xbone.

>Always-Online
>Kinect is required and it never turns off
>We're abandoning physical copies

what the fuck were they thinking?

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>but it wasn't real socialism

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That's what mixing onions and homosexuality looks like. Yikes.

I dunno, if there's heavy foreign intelligence interest in destabilizing the country, you can't really contain your analysis to the purely ideological level.

>Thinking /ctt/ would ever allow any design that isn't Loli or at least a D-Cup bra

>not shipping till early 2020
Yeah this is getting delayed isn't it?

My father used to be a Y2K believer, and he became obsessed with things that didn't need batteries. One of his favorite things was a hand-crank-charge radio that looked just like the OP thing but without a screen or game buttons

From their site;
>All twelve games in Season One will be included — there’s no extra charge.

So 150 buckaroonies for 12 games
Then you have to pay again for season 2

>It doesn't even have a backlit display

What. Even $3 chink screens have backlight built in

>backed by Superstars
what is this supposed to mean?
they payed some Celeb to walk around with it?

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>the burgers are the reason why communism is nothing but a never-ending string of failures

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is this real?
This looks like a toy for little babies not something for adults
wtf
its literally one of those like edutainment toys you buy kids that comes with built in games

You will get used to it. You are here forever

This screams OUYA to me. At the very least we'll get to see idiots scammed out of their money

what superstar backed this piece of shit lol

Edge is a decent magazine, but that thing looks so uncomfortable.
It all depends on the games though, if it has a great killer app it could do ok.

Who is the target audience for this thing?

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Idiots easily swayed by a gimmick and an ad blitz. Either that or someone high on their own farts though he could do no wrong and anything he made would sell millions upon millions because he's perfect in every way.

Imagine being as stupid as this user. Guess why no one cares about Palmer Luckey anymore? It's because he fucking sold Oculus to Facebook, you retard. As a human being, his load is blown. He is now in a crumpled tissue in the bin. His "invention" wasn't anything special, it's now merely one in a sea of far better devices, and he has nothing new to offer either the VR market or any other market, he's fucking done.

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> As a human being, his load is blown. He is now in a crumpled tissue in the bin.
> His "invention" wasn't anything special, it's now merely one in a sea of far better devices, and he has nothing new to offer either the VR market or any other market, he's fucking done.
That's some edgy shit right there, mate
Keep it up

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>He is now in a crumpled tissue in the bin.
How much did he sell it for?
Because I imagine he's crying himself to sleep while jacking off using hundred dollar bills as cumrags.

He still has Super Lucky’s Tale.

>what the fuck were they thinking?
Don Mattrick was a plant by Zynga & Facebook to try & stop Microsoft’s momentum and take command of the Western vidya industry. Spoilers: they only let Sony become as monstrous & evil as they are without big man Xbox at the gates.

>I analyzed the market
This shit never works. It's voodoo for execs.
t. ex-analyst

>This shit never works.
>t. ex-analyst
Have you considered the fact that you just sucked at your job?

implying the people at the top of these modern corporate companies had any involvement in the creation of the company

Nintendo Life and Green man gaming reporting on it and its not even Nintendo or PC. Why is this piece of shit showing up everywhere today? The shilling is painfully obvious.

>150 bucks
>shit specs
>games are "a secret"
>can't even power it with the crank
This thing is deader than you mother who will die in her sleep tonight if you don't reply to this post

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You can’t appreciate art. Everyone knows it’s not a real gaming system, but that’s not the appeal. Just don’t buy it.

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It finally happened
I was waiting for the first 2deep4u guy to appear
Go preorder, lad, and keep cranking

that's right comrade your boss literally does nothing, it's true, i heard it from some welfare queen slav over a hundred years ago

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that whore knows what she's doing

I thought it was going to be the power source at first, like a crankable tetris console or something, unfortunately it's an input device

>>Always-Online
>>We're abandoning physical copies
Have a feeling PS5 is heading this direction. In fact, maybe the next iterations of PS and XB are all heading this direction. Hell, maybe even the next Nintendo. It's going the way of the cloud, and streaming, and GaaS. You see MS talking to Sony AND Nintendo and it makes you wonder...
>>Kinectshit
Not sure about Kinectshit, but they'll probably have some kind of voice control as it's being normalized, what with voice control remotes, "Xbox On", Siri/Alexa/etc., and other shit. If so, they'll probably use it for some malefic purpose.
>Eavesdrop on everything to gather any information of value, regardless of what you feel about privacy
Perhaps it's time to destroy these companies to prevent such a dark future for gaming.

>device with 2 buttons and a directional pad (a gameboy)
>you have to finger crank your shitty gameboy to power it
only basedboys are going to buy this, ironically, and it'll collect dust while they use real tablet devices.

>2019
>still only 1 game
Hmmmm

twitter.com/playdate/status/1131307564841328640

It's just a hipster gameboy.

The more people shit on this the more will feed the ego of contrarians that will buy it and then tell everyone that you don't get it, that only gamers understand, that they are supporting legendary devs...
They are pushing the 2deep4u already calling it niche, exciting and unique
Bullshit industry at its finest

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I never said “2deep4u” because the art here is simplistic. But for every product is a target audience.
Take for instance, battlefield V, the target audience was SJWs who don’t play shooters. Obviously EA was misguided.
Here, the audience is those who view gaming with artistic regard. So just stop shitting on something literally not made for you. There’s plenty of games coming out. It’s not like this was some political false flag... You people take everything so personally, even I, who hate myself more than anybody else, don’t feel attacked by this cover. Grow up.

> Fresh spin on fun
When was the last time you fresh-spinned your fun, user?

Edge is European you fucking moron

Better than the ps3 launch

>You have to crank to power
Literally false. The games use the crank sometimes.

This.
Being hipster and different it their marketing strategy. They are not planning on selling millions that is why the price is to high. They want to make a good profit on each console sold instead of the software.

>Bullshit industry at its finest
You obviously have never played a Suda51 game. Do you really think this company wants sales? No. They’re artists. Artists might as well be permanently homeless. They just make shit for a laugh all the time.
T.artist

> Starbucks
> soilent
> iPhone
> airbuds
> MacBook pro with retarded keyboard
> playdate
The monster is complete

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Everyone knows it's corporate feudalism up next. Settle down, bucko.

If I'm gonna drop money on a dumb handheld purchase I'd probably rather get a modded GBA or something.

I don't care about the product. Fools can be parted with their money IDGAF. The issue is that a gaming magazine is shilling so hard for this garbage instead of calling it out as hipster trash. "Designed by rebels" wtf does that even mean?

Can I make homebrew games for it out of the box, or is it a locked down device?

Implying artists are not con artists
They also need to eat!
Suda pulls the same type of gigs to sell garbage titles... At least other successful release good games, and not just artistic experiments

Only good thing they did was give Mortal Kombat 11 a 5 out of 10.

>that shape
lmao uncomfortable as fuck

Someone's not a rebel

that's too generous, fuck em

remember this next time a buyfag whips out the morality argument or some shit.

THIS is what buyfag taste looks like. This is what buyfags ACTUALLY BELIEVE.

Wow

The thing is that Edge is clearly creating a faix story of success the same way music critics do with their industry plants
This thing is clearly an industry plant, and they are pulling the 2d4u ploy just to scul sales from the less knowledgeable gamers, or even worse, their families
It's grandma bait

So the next OUYA (RIP btw. , Razer killed it off completely now)

Clearly a normie
He does not understand, right?! Huh

Literally the Pet Rock of video games, just advertise literally nothing and it might sell. Except pathetic hipster adults are the wudience this time.

((Stein))
Into the trash it goes.

>right
I prefer the word "correct", thanks.

mother fucking mother who will die in user's sleep if he doesn't reply to this

It's an agenda they have all secretly agreed on. "Agenda" gets thrown around a lot. But look at the way these companies treat other ventures. If a franchise or genre fails just once -- just one time -- they all harp on about the genre/franchise being dead and how no-one wants it anymore so they're canning it. All it takes is one single failure, and they discard it.

Then, look at the Always Online thing. It doesn't matter how many games fail. Doesn't matter how much damage MS took because of it in 2013, they still keep coming back again and again to try it. They never do that unless there's something HUGE to gain.

I mean, Minecraft is literally the most popular game of all time, so this one is on point.

To be fair, you have to have a really high IQ to understand the Playdate.

Everyone wants a piece of the subscription service pie. I guarantee you this is the way even operating systems like windows are going.
>always online
>always up to date
>low barrier to entry
>moderate ongoing costs to consumer
>more money to service provider in the long run

Watch as we enter the real clown world. HDDs explode in price because no one is making consumer models in bulk anymore - among other things.

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You gotta sell magazines user thats all this is about
And this weird ass gadget in the cover will make people want to know what it is.

Sweeties that's extremely common. Video game magazine covers are almost always ads. If devs aren't paying for it outright, they're paying for it by giving you exclusive access. One way or another, an editor would be EXTREMELY reluctant to put an image that nobody paid for on the cover and he would be considered a loser in the industry for doing it. That's 100% accepted in the industry.

They didn't have to run an ad for some hipster meme toy though.

It looks like one of these fidgets for autists.

>HDDs explode in price because no one is making consumer models in bulk anymor
That's the next step. You're right.

(((small))) (((white))) (((penis)))

It's blatantly a scam.
>Limited quantity available which will make consumers rush to preorder it
>Hiding what games will be available for it because they're shit

Looks like a fun novelty, if it was a third of the price at most I might've considered it.

It means designed by people trying to challenge conventions of hardware design. It doesn’t mean communists, or any other of your /pol/ schizo shit!!!

I want one :)

>tfw edging is your kink and you find a sub twink boi with a secret darkside and he is an expert dom from being a sub for so long

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OH NOES WHY THEY PUSH THIS SHIT MADE BY A SMALL TEAM FOR FUN WHY THEY DON'T SUCK MY FAVORITE GIGANTIC MEGACORP THAT FUCK ME IN THE ASS WITH BIG MARKETING MONEY INSTEAD?

>tfw you're male

Ownership is so passé just wait for the first Ikea subscritption model where you can get a full furnishing + swap 3 furniture items every 6 months for only $59.99/month

>W-Walmart’s just a mom and pop shop owned by one hard working visionary!!
Fucking kek, based retard.

>Stein

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fuck you

>reading video game journalism
yikes

Is this £30?

X5

Video game journalism is just the marketing arm of the industry. Hence the 7-10 scale.

ALL GAMES ARE ALREADY ON THE DEVICE AND THEY WILL BE UNLOCKED ON A TIMELINE MANNER
HAHAHAHHAHSHAHAHAHAHHAHAAH

Imagine paying to be literally cucked from your purchase
I hope soilent sponsors

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How the hell does this not have a backlit display?

yes

I always find it interesting that people, usually Americans but not always of course, seem to think that the two options are 100% full-blare capitalism or socialism/communism. Also, socialism and communism aren't the same thing but they're used interchangeably in a lot of discourse.

Post recovery dog

They were unironically just too far ahead of their time.

It honestly looks like a neat toy, if the games are good and make decent use of the crank then it might be a good diversion

how is edge STILL around?

why do tech mags get to keep shit and i don't get my gamepros or psms?

Looks fun I guess I'll buy it.

based

>black and white display
vape devices have better graphics
>exposed fasteners
just add places for dirt to become lodged
>meme crank charger
if you're not within 5 feet of a place to charge a device, you're in the wilderness and shouldn't be playing gameboy. now you have a lump breaking the clean silhouette of the product
>bright primary colors
worked with the gameboy color, now just looks stupid alongside other devices and most outfits
>flat square body
zero ergonomics
>d-pad and two three buttons
severely limit game controls for the sake of nostalgia
>proprietary games released in "seasons"
the devs have only made two games, and one of them is indie storytelling trash

you can't use the crank to charge it

> he thinks the crank charges the device
You are giving it more credit than it deserves
It's confirmed just an input

fuck off shill no one is going to pay 150 smackeroos for for what is essentially a blind bag preloaded console with a meme gimmick. Even the Game Boy Micro was less of a joke.

>backed by superstars

how much did this seriously make on crowdscammer?

reminder that you can get a pocket sized handheld emulator for $60

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This is another shit device that will be saved by some autist with too much time by porting a Gameboy emulator to it
The funny thing is the scarcity factor is just to avoid the shame of having them in the $10 bin in a couple months
This is tamagotchi-tier retardness

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AAAAAAGGGGHHHH why did they make the making nub a rotating part then? why match its color with the rest of the case? why make the arm so thick? FUCK I hate these guys.

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fishing games, bro

>MUH SCARCITY

The Vega + is probably one of the lowest print run handhelds of all time but it's a glorified drink coaster and cheese grater nowadays

To make hipsters dream, pal

yeah the crank as an input does sound like a soi thing to be excited about

> vape devices have better graphics
I legit chuckled on that
Thank you, lad

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Water is wet
More news at 11

>no crank
how the fuck is anybody supposed to play games on this

OP is probably just triggered that they gave MK11 a 5.
Edge is one of the few journalistic outlets left with some stones.

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>it wasn't REAL socialism

I pray for all Venezuelans. they didn't deserve the hell they're living in

What are you talking about?
I'm not saying that it was or wasn't, but merely that there was heavy outside intervention which makes Venezuela a rather useless case-study.

got mine early AMA

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>Limited quantity available which will make consumers rush to preorder it
I doubt anyone will "rush" to preorder this one. It looks like absolute trash.

the market is driven by value, not by labor

why don't econ-lets understand this?

>No fun allowed
I don't know why you're so hostile to something that's obviously a novelty product for people with some disposable income, not every game machine needs to have 7 years of support and a massive library to be worth anything

lmao this

so much industry only works because the people who introduced it to the market knew there was a need i.e. they analyzed the market

based Chelsea, also fuck you

I mean, if this thing was like 30 dollars

And a bunch of indie studios made little games for it on the side

Or it became really popular at game jams

It could be kinda cool

But selling this for $150, I thought this was a teaser for Devolver Digital's E3 presentation.

>meaningful critique is on YouTube
Let's not get carried away here. The e-celeb drama and cult of personality and the fights between all those various groups that have spawned from sites like Youtube and social media are extremely obnoxious, like teenage girls fighting over their favorite pop singers.

It doesn't help that things like algorithms or character limit on places like twitter encourage the most shallow and smarmy comments to rise to the top.

Devolver would never mock indie devs, they'd be too terrified of hurting someone's feelings and being put on some blacklist somewhere.

Who are they rebelling against? Are handheld console developers persecuted in some part of the world?

T

> cranklet
Lad

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It'd be cool if it was backlit and cost 30$ or less

how do you even hold this shit comfortably when the controls are so close to the bottom and there's a fucking crank on the side

And yet the media felt like they needed to collectively unite to annihilate the dude's career even though by your logic he was already irrelevant. Why the character assassination and exaggeration of his political views if he sold out to FB anyway?

Wait what's the crank for?

Crank 2: High voltage

To play games
This is legit
People believe it's to charge the device but no

nice

cross eyed mommy?

>Okay we want you to jump while looking like a retard in front of this green screen

Is this an actual SJW manufactured gaming hardware?

>gameboy for hipsters

nintendo already beat them to the punch over a decade ago

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Ouya 2.0? Whose involved in this project?

wait
hol up

the crank isn't even to make it hand-chargeable???

????????????????????

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jesus

Yes. It's less about games and more about "art", whatever that means.

>people act with hostility to a potential new competitor on a video games market and would rather have three big brands that reign dominance for two decades now

I hate this blind brand loyalty people express nowadays. Fanboys who would die for their faceless corporations are the worst.

how do you create value without labor?

>worse than the original Gameboy™

So is this like a money laundering thing or what?

i can also do that on my personal tracking device which I already carry with me at all times

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No it doesn't retard, the body has been curved since the 6 when they dropped the old design

Playdate Wojak when?

I bet its designed by people in Silicon Valley who get paid $150 a second or some shit, so it seems trivial to them that this would be a straight buy over what is a crank handle gimic

how do you create a market without value?

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how do you create value for your market without labor?

>without
>driven

read again

how do you create value without labor?

>$150 for a non-backlit, tiny-as-fuck handheld with a games-as-service, no carts platform and a literal fucking crank

This is the dumbest goddamn thing i've seen all week. Just buy a used DS.

>a novelty device is competition
I guess all those handhelds with "50 games in one" that are just NES bootlegs shouldn't be derided either? Oh and Plug and Plays of course, that's waht this piece of shit is the equivalent of.

>a potential new competitor

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>people act with hostility to a potential new competitor on a video games market and would rather have three big brands that reign dominance for two decades now

I hate this blind brand loyalty people express nowadays. Fanboys who would die for their faceless corporations are the worst.

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Heehee

Cranks on devices are cursed and you know it

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This will probably be a success. Not because it's good, or well made, or even passable, but because there's no way the profit margin isn't insanely good. This has to be like one hundred and thirty dollars gained on each one. Marketing can't cost that much, we're already marketing it for them.

>not all press is good press, ano-
I agree. But one of these guys, Bennet whatever, is the QWOP and Getting Over It guy. Those games made their names on being frustrating and dumb. That's his BRAND. No clue what the Katamari guy is fucking doing, though.

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>people act with hostility to a potential new competitor...

CONGRATULATIONS!
You played yourself.

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n

>OLPC
Now this thing can actually be charged with the crank since it's supposed to be used in underdeveloped countries without reliable power sources.

HAHAHAHA

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milkies

I'm just genuinely curious what the point of this thing is. If people want to go back and play simple handheld games they usually just get into black and white Gameboy, which, at this point, I'm surprised doesn't have some kind of a bigger homebrew scene.
Like, I guess this thing seems neat but why would I buy such a useless device
I'm 29, maybe i have too much frugalness and adult spending mindsets embedded in me at this point I just don't at all understand the point of this device

Here's what I'm curious about; do we own the games? What are the consumer rights on this shit?

What does the crank button do?

It Dougs

It Dougs

Keep her painfully average just like the console

They got rid of the crank right after it was announced because winding it put too much physical strain on the laptop frame. The actual laptop just comes with a power plug

I can just imagine what type of person is going to buy it

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GAMEFYING THE SOI KEKS
LITERALLY ACTING LIKE SLAVES WAITING FOR IT TO HAPPEN AND LOSING CONTROL

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why the fuck does the wind up thing do

Dougmind

>august 2013
I mean, at that point the writing was on the wall
PS4 is far from a perfect machine and Sony has their head up their ass about a lot of shit but I don't see why anyone in their right mind sans general uninformed consumers would have gotten an Xbone over PS4, hell even Wii U had more appealing exclusives than Xbone

It's a control scheme. One game had you walk with it. Maybe you can charge it, too? There's only one visible port.

who's the guy on the left

You use it to simulate warming up the bull

this desu. Palmer was a tinkerer who was able to cobble together a decent VR headset, and then was lucky enough to court Carmack. Palmer has no actual technical chops beyond the average /g/ tinkerer, and once he sold the company to Facebook they were well on their way to getting rid of him. The Trump stuff accelerated their decision, but it was also the Zenimax lawsuit and the fact that he was genuinely dead weight apart from being an 'idea guy,' and when you sell your company to a juggernaut they already have more qualified 'idea guys' than you.

>new competitor
>niche device going after the "i still love the non-color Game Boy library" audience
I don't care about this device at all but it really seems like its audience is super niche

yeah okay

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Those overalls please me.

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What a cool Warioware microgame.

I would buy it for 20€ if the games were good

Edge have the problem of blowing all their money on graphic designers rather than good writers.

No mention of what games, just individual devs
No mention of whether you keep the games week-to-week, or between "seasons"
No mention of storage capacity or expandability
No mention of software, firmware, OS
No mention of hardware at all besides the swedish design meme and sweet "kindle paperwhite"-like display which is proudly "more pixels than a [30 year old] Game Boy"
Does mention that it is yellow, the second shittiest color after orange
Does mention the price: about $100 too much

Fucking, why? Is this hipster bait?

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yes

what does playdate even mean
it doesn't describe the console in any way
like, look at nes, it's an entertainment system from nintendo
xbox one x, it is a box except the best and xtreme and cool
play station vita, desperately held onto life for far longer than it should have

playdate is like you wanna play it on a date why the fuck would you do that? it has an obvious unique feature, name the console after it
spinmaster
cyclo-matic 3000
the dynamo
cranky boy
sharmanka
anything but fucking playdate
i bet Yea Forums can come up with a better name

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Add scarcity to the wound

Wait, i take it back, they mention one game which literally looks like a long warioware microgame

>it's art!
>it's a niche market!
>it's experimental!
>it's not for you

These are most of the retarded arguments I'm seeing on other sites defending this piece of shit. And none of them make any sense, what is the purpose of this system? What does it bring that every other system can't do better besides the crank?

still has more worthwhile exclusives than ps4

>playdate is like you wanna play it on a date
Did you not have any friends as a kid user?

>What does it bring that every other system can't do better
Smugness followed by buyer's remorse

IF YOU CRITIQUE, ITS NOT FOR YOU

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novelty. im sure if you go back 8 years there are articles/ads praising the Ouya.

M8 the Wii U was DOA and the XBone fell on its ass the day it was announced, they were hardly breaking new ground in praising the PS4 here.

See:. It's a money grab that appeals to people who want "unique" products.

I'm seeing people saying they would buy it solely because it was made by Teenage Engineering. I thought they had a pretty shitty reputation for poor quality and bad customer service?

It's called the playdate because you play it and then you get dates, you long dick-having basedboy chad ;^)

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>No clue what the Katamari guy is fucking doing, though.

Collecting a fat paycheck + residuals for what was likely

Those are the people that want to throw a wrench into the gears of Sony/MS/Nintendo, except their wrench is made of cardboard.

reminder that you can download any emulator on the phone you already own for free

>black and white screen
>Not back lit
What the fuck man why is this so much money

>touchscreen controls
no

Clown World.

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is there a way to segue this into soulja boy memes

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slap an apple logo on it

The same reason a TI83, with it's blazing-fast 4MHz Z80, spacious 64KB memory, and high-resolution 96x64 LCD costs $120.

Literally a Gameboy with a crank for 150$. You have to be retarded to buy this shit.

>6 weeks after the Playdate's Releaes
video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1131326126381383680/pu/vid/500x360/QoxmGIYHOdwke3Fz.mp4

Whats the point if its black and white and you wont be able to see shit in sunlight or in the dark?

They were hyping Ouya like that too. And we all know how it turned out.

>Does mention that it is yellow, the second shittiest color after orange
Other than that you're spot on, right down to the hipster bait.

Every other system could easily do whatever the crank can with a control stick.

You can't use A or B while turning the crank, who's the mentally ill person that designed this piece of crap?

They go as far as creating the false impression that the shitty specs are a deliberate decision, like the non backlit monochrome screen
The difference between this and a hundred Kickstarter projects is these retards are friends with journos
As simple as that

"It's not for you." is a genuine argument.
You can argue all you want, they don't care, since you weren't meant to buy it in the first place.
Don't think they will succeed that way, though.

TI-83 is a tried and true basic graphing calculator that is required, often specifically by name, for thousands upon thousands of high school and undergrad math classes, and is so ubiquitous and easy to program for that there are long lists of games and useful apps that have been around for 20 years

the playdate is $150 because of goyboy disposable manchild income

all I want is to have is a new xperia play with better hardware

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Playing devil's advocate:
>You can't use the control stick while fapping, who's the mentally ill person that designed this piece of crap?

>"Hell Yes I'm a gamer. And Hell Yes I have a PlayDate"

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Seriously? You can use any input in a controller at any time, going from analog stick to buttons is fast, but changing from the buttons to the crank and vice-versa is not.

crank is the best part about it, be neat to have weird controls like that on something but its a non backlit b&w shit toy with NES buttons and that price tag wooohahahHAHAHAHA

>"Hell Yes I'm a gamer. And Hell Yes I have a OUYA"
Same guy a few years ago.

ouya

THE REBELLION HAS ARRIVED

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What does Yea Forums think of my EDGE collection?

Any requests?

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The crank opens up whole new modes of artistic expression and experience, sorry you plebs don't understand the profundity, we are all really going in circles.

Post their original GTA3 review

here, it seems that you dropped this on your way here
:^)

I just realized the Playmate has its buttons arranged in a way that strains the right thumbs of its already-frail demographic

You say you're against socialism but you let communists live rent free in your head. Care to explain?

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>4 hour battery life
sad

don't worry, as ouya will take off, these anons will rush into the stores to buy one

Me on the left

>How dare you even insinuate that a crippled retard might not be able to beat Mike Tyson in a boxing match
>I hate this blind loyalty to pre-established things

well i doubt it's a "false impression" since if they wanted higher specs they would have just made it with higher specs

Daily reminder that jason Schreier has a hot gf and you dont

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so his daughter inherited his shitty looks
now post his gf

I don’t want to be a dick, so I’ll just say that she’s not exactly what I’d call a “hot gf”

user what the fuck. I'm not a picky man but that is not pretty. She looks retarded.

The guy literally looks like a worm. Its rare to see actual 2/10s

fuck you

WHERE MA CRANK BROS AT?!!!!
FUCK VR
THE CRANK IS THE FUTURE OF ENTERTAINMENT

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you

how would you make a video game magazine cover that isn't an ad?

are you unironically defending the wii u and early xbone

Labor has value brainlet, thats why they hire you and pay you a wage

Reminder that you can get a 2DS that comes with a game and at least 1 game or numerous virtual console games for the same price as this turd. It also has color and a backlight

no, they pay you for the value of your labor. The value.

Taking a massive dump costs labor, but nobody is paying you to take a shit.

Cocksucker

too many words, the right can't meme

that's a british article from a magazine that was printed decades ago you fucking retard.

>no, they pay you for the value of your labor. The value.

Yeah exactly so labor has value retard

the real gameboy micro does not have a backlit screen.

a gameboy micro with a flashcart full of the entire gb, gbc, and gba library is the ultimate gameboy experience.

the labor itself and the value it produces are two different things.

If businesses could reduce/remove the labor requirements; they would.

sorry user, the left can’t meme. this is known.

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Might wanna check a wiki b4 u post

T. A guy that owns a gb micro

>our labor
>our money

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Before Facebook buy oculus for billons and made him billionaire

Remember jews force women to marry incels.

I never understood that argument about “our labor”. You can only provide the labor because the company provide you with the tools to do so. For example, how exactly would you make the burger at mcdonalds without the provided ingredients, machines, etc? Your “labor” is basically worhtless

>the labor itself and the value it produces are two different things

Yeah no shit you have to sell commodities at a higher profit to not only maintain your business model and keep people employed but also flip a profit to grow the business

>If businesses could reduce/remove the labor requirements; they would

Again no shit, execs are pressured to make bigger profits every year, big surprise. You seriously talk like someone who just had their first sociology class at Uni and have no clue what youre talking about

this is the first comment I made in this thread and its what I defend. Do you disagree with this?

Its just the entitled mindstate of a disgruntled wageslave. They have this highly romanticized vision where we could all be living in some utopian world with our very own ivory towers that unexplicably requires no effort or labor. Its less of an argument and more of a fever dream but its my favorite question because they always get btfo at town halls and such when they ask a question that goes along those lines

...........

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>"Playdate is aiming to be the console you buy more as a statement about your refined and eclectic gaming tastes"
>"Playdate seems to say, but truly experimental gamers play with a crank on a low-res black-and-white screen
HOLY FUCKING SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

I can't wait to unwrap my """"""""""gift"""""""""" I paid for.

Yes i would tend to disagree, value is a arbitrary amount given out of personal taste. For instance a silly dollar store bracelet may have value to you because your friend gave it to you. Labor on the other hand is a necessary driving force of the economy, the value of which doesnt make any difference as long as the business is sustainable. Without the means of production or labor force value has no meaning

nice one
fuck you

literally hipster shit

good lord those milkers

I'd be fine with it if:
>it's 15$, not 150$
>came with a hefty programmer's manual, and an option to load own programs
>the crank charged the battery

>Crank
The new controller innovation everybody

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The Soicle

Seriously if it was marketed as a DIY raspberry pi kit or something with an onboard devkit and some sort of online support to upload projects it would actually be a cool little idea

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>value is a arbitrary

"arbitrary" is such an abused word, its become meaningless now.

And yes, we can measure value, through money. We can consistently say that food has value.

>Two identical spoons.
>One took 10 years to make.
>The other 10 mins.
>still identical

Which is more valuable?

The way of the future

>first sociology class

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RIP Crahan girl

marketed mainly to boomers who remember when videogames first came out. i dont see anyone under the age of 40 buying this thing other than a neat toy to show to people at parties

wtf I'm Souf FC now

based milk poster

>stating the obvious is now "shilling"

Fuck, I was just browsing Yea Forums because it's fun and I get to laugh and you had to fucking remind me fucking motherfuckers like you exist
Shit, stop talking about my country. China, Russia, Turkey and fucking Cuba own our asses and you motherfuckers keep saying it's all about the US wanting more oil

Need I remind you that Russia is now supplying the US with the oil we can't produce? Venezuela is over 700B USD in debt. 20 years ago that debt was at aroudn 30B USD
We are producing oil at 1960's numbers right now, and all of that is going to China to pay for loans and Cuba to pay for espionage. I fucking hate you guys

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>boob veins

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gfchf

>We are producing oil at 1960's numbers right now, and all of that is going to China to pay for loans and Cuba to pay for espionage.
Yes, right now.
But you have absurd oil reserves to the point where ensuring compliance with the US would be quite attractive. Last time I checked you had about as much oil as the Saudis.

>Need I remind you that Russia is now supplying the US with the oil we can't produce?
Yes, but wouldn't it be nice if you could get your oil for cheap from a satellite state?

I already own the superior console though.

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>lights up
the screen isnt even backlit

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Well, it would be cool to be the next Puerto Rico, at least we wouldn't have drug lords and guerrilla warlords in the government, only law-abiding US puppets that are corrupt, but not enough to have a whole fucking country living with only 13 dollars a month

That's the real dream.

cunt

When will my suffering end

this isn't even a fucking game you crank to watch a shitty pixel movie there is no buttons involved

Haha, it looks like a 90s gameboy. Back when games were good. Looks like this is my next purchase.

We shouldn't even be discussing this. It's designed solely to milk money from hipsters. If the price was reasonable and it shipped with an SDK, it might be a fun toy to make games for. But I can guarantee that these "seasons" will be the only way to get games on it, and while the first one is "free", any future ones definitely won't. It's not even ouya-tier, but will probably sell better because of the marketing.

3rd worlders are playing entire system romsets on $30 chink mini gameboys that work wonderfully
meanwhile in lard town, the hipster boys are going to revolutionize gaming forever, with a crank and a monochrome screen
I would love to see an african boi laugh at this, while playing his pirated PSP

You realize emotional value and physical value are different right?

How do you Yea Forumstards not realize that's satire??

Fair point, the hipster appeal may be enough. couple that with the relentless mockery it'll receive and you can expect some rabid fanboys of this thing for the sake of contrarianism and avoiding buyer's remorse.

The only reason I am even slightly considering getting this right now is because of Bennett Foddy and the Katamari dude. Other than that, the $150 price tag, the fact that they don't show any games (except for one which looks like a minigame) and the whole "limited supply buy now" shit makes this seem like a scam.

Ugh. Someone finally somewhat uses my idea and it's with this weird shit.

I've been wanting someone to do a video game version of a soap opera for years now. Pay $0.25 per day and you can play today's episode. It'd be such a simple game that a dev could make all the new assets it needed, write the story, and program in new levels in a day. Like a really basic shooter. Maybe some procgen stuff to keep the workload down, but not too much - that breaks the appeal.

Alas, it's not to be.

fuck no

The micro doesn't support anything but GBA, kiddo.

Analyzing the market is a thing when you're selling less imaginary products and services.

Or do you think successful companies just throw darts to figure their product focus?

So I can connect it to my mac or iphone to play games with it?
Does turning the crank regen the battery ?
Can they add two more buttons ?

You are honestly retarded if you didn't realize print magazines are ads 40 years ago. And you are doubly retarded to think youtube videos today are any different.

Or at least back buttons to add layers on the two front buttons

Unironically, it is. The CIA has been at war against all forms of communism or mere socialism in South America ever since the second world war because lefty governments impede the profits of American corporations.

CRANK
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>Any requests?
Why even ask? You know it's got to be the Doom review, my man.

> designed by rebels
Designed by a company who filed a false DMCA against a youtuber because their politics were the wrong politics

>want to know what games it will have?
>buy it first to find out!

How did they think they could get away with this?

>has a literal crank
>didn't put the crank where a penis would be

LITERALLY
FUCKING
ONE
JOB
YOU
ABSOLUTE
RETARD

>Amiga Power getting posted on Yea Forums.
u wot m8

Lol this thread is like going to a zoo except instead of chimps chimping out in the cages it's boomers chimping out. I love it!

It's a perfect microcosm of examples of shit happening all the way back in the Amiga era, that is still happening unimpeded in the modern gamejourno industry. Favors. Bribes. Employee perks for good reviews that make their sponsors and publishers happy. Etc.

This might as well be a DS reveal thread. "TWO SCREENS LOLOLXD" "PSP IS GOING TO KILL IT"
This thing is going to be fucking huge. Screenshotting this thread.

Anyone who unironically uses the term 'boomer' is outing themselves as some raiding discord tranny or twitter leftist trying poorly to blend in with a crowd of people who fucking hate them.

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>Crank the crank
>It breaks

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t. Boomer B. Boomington Esq.

t. dementia-addled grandpa

>zoomer gamergate fags think videogame writers weren't always hardened shills
If anything they've gotten slightly less obvious about it but video game """"journalism""" has always been blatant shilling. I actually grew up on the first generation of this stuff and even at 10 years old I recognized that they were basically marketers for the most part.

>Amiga Power
Keiron Gillen is "Game Journo" scum Patient Zero

>The screen is a highly-reflective 2.7-inch black and white display from Sharp with a resolution of 400 x 240. Playdate's screen is not backlit, which presumably will help extend its battery life

what the everloving fuck.
i actually like the idea of underpowered handhelds with fun features, but no one should pay 150$ for a cooler tamagochi.20-40$ sounds ideal for a gimmick console.

money laundering.
Its so obvious this whole thing is meant to launder money, probably from child abuse exploitation

>cooler tamagochi
Tamagotchi's have backlights

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Yeah well 2016 election tourists and r/the_donald transplants are typically two-digit IQ and are figuring this stuff out for the first time so cut them some slack. We need to take care of the needy in society, whether it's the poor or low IQ dunning kruger gamers who had their brain circuitry fried by social justice twitter and internet disinfo operations.

Having a crank computer is actually really cool. Great for when the power goes out but you still need the internet.

As long as its wireless, you're good.

>Amiga Power
>Talking about ethics in game journalism
>Unironically got caught reviewing unfinished games for the 'exclusive' no less than three (3! Count em!) times.
The ironing is delicious.

>cranking at the bus stop
>cute girl asks me what I'm doing
>I'm experiencing art designed by rebels
>that's pretty cool can I try

>Having a crank computer is actually really cool. Great for when the power goes out but you still need the internet.
>As long as its wireless, you're good.
Did you perhaps not pay attention to the video I posted.... where Negroponte.... mastermind behind the OLPC cranked the crank on stage and the fucking crank broke off?

imagine not having a diesel generator this day and age

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The crank is the only good thing about it
>Illiterate idiots still think it’s to power the thing

But if the power goes out, then how will you internet?

>tfw my PS4 is collecting dust while my Switch and Xbox get used
Feels like last gen desu.

>"The future of interactive entertainment"
>Only has two buttons and a dpad, somehow fewer than a fucking Gameboy

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The only option was and it's still the PC
wtf is wrong with you guys? Yea Forums is a fucking joke I'm out of here faggots.

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I don't need your sarcastic quips buddy, I have boxes full of pretty much every Gamepro and EGM between 1999 and like 2010 (I stopped buying GP when they revamped everything and dropped the reviewer avatars, switched to EGM until they went digital).

I know games journalism used to be good, because some of my favorite articles in those rags were the critical reviews-- back then you could actually give games a number below 6, and they often did. They didn't treat Japanese games with barely masked disgust, often it was JP releases getting the front cover or Choice of the Month.

>than three (3! Count em!)
I appreciated the reference

also fuck game journos

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>From the people who brought you Firewatch

I want to see what the 12 games are and how much seasons cost. If it's that these are full games then MAYBE it's justifiable

Crank chads assemble

Wow I didn’t know there were only two political positions

It works like this: Labor gives the product (material or not) the ability to exist and have value, the specific value is decided by the market.
Even if the value of the product is decided by the market, the value in itself is given by labour, so whatever the value the product gets, it is the value of the labour (time, and actions required) that created it.

I was jebaited

Keep up the good work, Susu

That's C-Monster to you, pal.

EGM was one of the only good ones. Gamepro were basically shills like most everyone else. Sounds like you just weren't/aren't terribly discerning.

the fact ur so emotional about it means you're either literally a woman or you're a feminized male, and their attention economy nu-marketing Influencer/blue checkmark fucking HORSESHIT worked on you, either way, congratulations faggot, enjoy the rush of endorphins you get whenever you Think Positively about this Product or when someone else Attacks it and you feel the need to get Defensive about it because this Product has become a part of your fucking IDENTITY you SOULLESS CONSUMERIST HUSK

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>color tamagochi

what the hell? my tamagochi was like a 32x32 black and white screen with no backlight and only 2 buttons.

yours is clearly fake and gay.look, it's also pink.

>August 17, 2015
Wasn't that after the buyout?

If you had a girlfriend would you care enough about that guy's post to write all that shit? Lol.

Jesus Christ this thing is an ADHD marketed monstrosity. Something to appeal to all the little zoomed retards with their fucking fidget spinners.

After the buyout, he's wearing a commercial 6 dof rift, they were bought out when the devkits were a thing

Also Oculus is pretty based TBh, they're the only reason VR is still a thing at all and the only company other than Sony to fund VR games

Why not just put an analog stick instead of cranking it

>No backlight
The shit parts of 90s handhelds can stay there.

Do you even know what a flashcart is

and that's 100% an epitome of why the industry is a corrupt shithole that nobody with a functioning brain would want to work in

I bet they are skipping the backlight so they can sell the Crankboy Pro later.

>turning the console itself into a loot box

just end me already

with that crank it is a fidget spinner lmao

>I enjoy janky-ass emulation when it's on a system I can slip in to my purse with my tampons.

Gamepro was great up until they sucked all the personality and color from it. They dropped the avatars and stopped including walkthroughs and stuff like that.

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KysHuman

But they were always glorified cheerleaders. Gamepro may have been top tier in this particular race to the bottom but that's not saying much.

well i was like 11 when Gamepro was even popular so i'm not denying some rose tinted glasses here.

I think microsoft would be sued into oblivion if they tried to go with a sub model for the OS, but they have already switched to that model for most of their other products like office and their Azure division is all cloud based so it's built on a subscription model

who'se that on the left hand monitor? Is it that moot guy?

You couldn't resist, could you user.

literally just a console for hipter faggots that dont like video games it looks like some gay fashion shit

"rebels"? what fucking "rebels" lmao it's like reading an add for a fragrance

Be safe user.

How do you hold it when you crank? It's a square and my left hand isn't squared

just use your atari paddle controller

Actually no. The PS3 launch was better.

they used to put the crank on the cartridge so you could choose which accessory you wanted with which game

I love handhelds but this thing is a strong no from me.
It looks like they took a phone and stuck a bulky yellow case on it sideways.

This
Why not selling a 150$ crank you can add on iphones?

They're rebeling against common sense.

dude dont you get it they're rebelling against the mainstream by being hipster faggots which totally isnt the mainstream

LITERALLY

DON'T ASK QUESTIONS. JUST CONSUME PRODUCT AND GET EXCITED FOR NEXT PRODUCTS

Exactly

>color

You can't fool me

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>all these years later and it's still just a bloodborne machine

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holy fuck this is absolute dogshit.

I just don't get it

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I hope you learned your lesson venezuela bro, NEVER FALL FOR THE COMMIE LIES. THY SOUND SWEET BUT THE TASTE IS OH SO BITTER

You are renting the cranked for a limited time

it's small enough you could put a flanged base on it and store it as a buttplug why do you bother carrying a purse at all

user this sort of thing would not exist under communism...

I'd unironically buy this if it was

>the market is driven by value, not by labor
Explain where the value of a commodity like bread comes from when supply and demand are equal. You can't.

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>150 bucks
>"[Crank] is super fun!"

How 'bout no.

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imagine if you had to use both the crank and buttons at the same time what would be a mess

>Stonetoss

I've literally never met someone who says they like pong and I own an atari and I've tried to get my friends to try playing older games and they couldn't even be bothered

>a game a week
I'm sure hyped for cranking simulator, idle cranker, crank royale and whatever other shit they can make in a single week.

And the communists have been doing the same thing since 1917.

OOF

please stop stacking them that way it will ruin them at least put them in boxes if not also sleeves it costs practically nothing to bag them also this thread is the first time I've ever heard of this stupid magazine I think your collection is stupid

u r human ass

nobody reads edge, and nobody would know what the cover if you didn't make this thread

>Playdate

This product is dead from that name alone.

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here's ur console bro

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Quick! Post crank game ideas!

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Have you seen my Playdate? Check it out. It only plays the most obscure art games from the artisan game store. And it's completely carbon neutral! Check it out you charge it by cranking it.

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I'm not going to lie - I think the form is really pleasing. I like the shape and the color. That said, the thing looks like a piece of shit otherwise, and EDGE is selling out.

is this the new Soulja Boy console?

>
Even in 2013, a PS4 was pointless over a PC unless you really liked Killzone, you smooth brains

I hope the crank makes an obnoxious loud clicking sound as its cranked so you look like that extra little bit more of a faggot when you play it on the bus.

>This looks like a toy for little babies not something for adults
so does the switch (especially the ones with different colored joycons) and the same nu-male audience bought those.

I don't know it looks cool desu.

The crank only makes the character move, not the entire gameworld. He has to rewind to a point where the character was crouching to dodge the butterfly which presumably hurts him(?)
It's very basic, but it is a game. It's by the guy who did Katamari, too.

oh fuck the (you)s should have been a clue

how are they "challenging the conventions of hardware design" by making a game boy with a corny gimmick? that's basically been nintendo's whole business strategy for the last 15 years or so.

thanks danger dog for your hard work

>Bought a PS4 back in 2017
>Its already sitting there collecting dust

Lost my interest once Yakuza went to PC so I'll play it there instead

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>black and white screen
>weekly shit games

It looks novel, but stupid as fuck. I like messing and fidgeting with stuff so thats the only appealing part. It’s so pretentious though. Could never but one.

GAME AND WATCH:
EVOLUTION

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Looks like a device for onions californians to be hipster about. Not that interesting for epic gamers.

Sorry for the buzzwords.

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imagine playing that shit on the bus

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This thing is a very forgettable piece of shit. Stop talking about it.

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J-JUST LIKE MY SONS GAMES HA HA

"We should ban straws!!! also look at my artisanal slab of plastic from Panic.com that'll still be polluting the earth with it's plastics and battery in 300 years time"

>This cover marks the official unabashed and shameless outing of professional media as blatant shills
Covers for game-related publications are ads. Anyone who ever saw one of those shitty magazines they sell you at gamestop knows this. There was probably some small amount of competition with other outlets to secure the exclusivity of this story, and part of the deal struck with Edge was that the cover portrayed it favorably.

>Who is this directed to? Who in this environment will fall for this?
This kind of approach has always worked because people like the novelty of it. Arcade game manufacturers and Nintendo have been successful with it. The crank isn't a horrible idea - it could be fun. The lack of a backlight is impossible to defend, though.
The game they showed is the kind of thing people on Yea Forums always claim to want. The visuals and story aren't emphasized, and only exist to emphasize the gameplay, which earnestly attempts to be original. There's no reason not to like it besides the pretentious marketing, which isn't a good reason. If (when) this thing tanks, the product will be blamed, not the marketing.

Yes yes yes but is it suitable for vegans??

Fuck vegans they don't even eat BACON

lol what is this gay looking gameboy
>the state of Edge

>Someone makes an experimental piece of game hardware
>Yea Forums cries and cries and poops their diaper because it's illegal for non-nintendo/sony/microsoft organizations to create videogame hardware

Why are you people like this?

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OUYA 2.0 baby!

Bacon hell yeah

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>"It’s got a beautiful black and white screen"
>a crank
>no backlight
This crap is aimed squarely at retarded hipsters, too bad even they aren't going to pay 150 bucks for a meme.

It is literally one hundred and fifty dollars for something that is probably not even twenty to make.

Calling this experimental is an insult to literally anyone who works on video games.

The crank looks like a neat little experiment, and the console is the price of a shitty anime figure.

I don't see the harm? Why are you bottom feeders seething with rage?

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>instead of a cool color like black or gunmetal it's "yellow"
>has a crank (wtf?)
>no FPS
>no ubisoft games
>no discord support
how am I supposed to like something so pretentious? are you a vegan?

...'nuff said

Let's be honest. This is just some kinda hipster artpiece that is disguised as a gaming console.

It's not worth it to get angry over it as it isn't meant for any of the gamers on this board.

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>one hundred and fifty dollars
Oh no the price of 2 games for a novelty console. How will EDGE ever recover from this controversy.

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>has a crank (wtf?)
It seems like a legit fun idea. What's the issue?