Playdate delays to 2022 amid scramble to revise entire handheld console
The global chip shortage has made a serious impact on the production of upcoming portable gaming devices this week. Barely a day after Valve announced that its handheld PC, the Steam Deck, would be delayed two months, the Game Boy-like Playdate console, initially slated to arrive by the end of 2021, followed suit on Thursday.
The system's producers at Panic have given a lengthy explanation for why the console is being delayed to "early 2022," with orders beyond the first 20,000 pushed back even further.
In a newsletter sent to Playdate preorder customers, Panic details the reason for the delay: broken batteries in the first batch of 5,000 systems. "We found a number of units with batteries so drained, Playdate wouldn't power on at all-and couldn't be charged," Panic writes.
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