To be honest, my little conspiracy theory (almost certainly wrong, yours is calculated whereas mine is probably based on a little bit of past frustration) is that the main driving force behind the high price is Teenage Engineering.
I own a lot of their devices, and actually the more I think about it, the more I can see where they fit. TE devices are generally very expensive for what you get, and often not great build quality (the playdate seems better, but thats not a purely TE project), but the fact is, you can't get what they make anywhere else. I hate the double trigs on my OP-Z, but there is no alternative.
Yes that’s a good point. If you factor in the cost of contracting TE in for this project they are definitely close to breaking even if not negative. Given that, my perspective is that I’m grateful something cool and different is being made in a field that’s dominated by large established players who operate with much larger budgets. Monocultures aren’t inherently bad but it’s been a bit too long since a new serious player entered this space.
Oh absolutely, I did preorder one afterall, despite the price ;)
The fantasy console handheld is something thats been much talked about and this seems like by far the most fleshed out version of that. I have a feeling a lot of people in this thread are thinking that all games are for the exact same audience, and thats the reason for some of the confusion and to some extent outrage.
