Those hoping to get their hands on Panic's unique, retro-inspired handheld console, the Playdate, will have to wait a little longer.
2023/8/30 Play Date Introduction Demo
The company just announced via email and blog post that Playdate has been pushed back to 2022, with Panic adjusting the release date to early next year. The reason? Poorly functioning batteries in the final product.
“When our first 5,000 completed Playdate units arrived at our California warehouse for 2021, we began testing a few of them and quickly became concerned that some of them weren’t giving us the battery life we expected,” they wrote.
“We found a number of devices where the batteries were so low that Playdate would not turn on at all and could not be charged.”
