{"id":249403,"date":"2025-10-05T07:36:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2153081"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:36:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:36:37","slug":"playdate-pre-orders-go-live-next-month-priced-179","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playdate-pre-orders-go-live-next-month-priced-179\/","title":{"rendered":"Playdate pre-orders go live next month priced $179"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Playdate, the mini monochrome handheld with a crank, will become available for pre-order in July priced $179 (UK price TBA). <\/p>\n

The exact date will be announced closer to the time, with a week’s warning so you can be ready. The first units are “expected” to ship later in 2021.<\/p>\n

Those details are different to those first announced back in May 2019<\/a>, when the price was mentioned as $149. But Playdate’s offering has now been improved, with a 4GB memory instead of 2GB, and an initial 24 game season: double the games originally planned.<\/p>\n

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Playdate, the mini monochrome handheld with a crank, will become available for pre-order in July priced $179 (UK price TBA). The exact date will be announced closer to the time, with a week’s warning so you can be ready. The first units are “expected” to ship later in 2021. Those details are different to those first announced back in May 2019, when the price was mentioned as $149. But Playdate’s offering has now been improved, with a 4GB memory instead of 2GB, and an initial 24 game season: double the games originally planned. 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