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[–] Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Bad time to be doing this, the specs are lower than my tablet I dropped $800 on a few years ago.

Before anyone drops a console they need to wait for the RAM to stop being $500+ and a decent sized SSD costing more.

I even looked at sd cards to slap in the slot and move my media off the drive and those had also doubled in price over the time period they'd normally have halved the cost of a larger one.

[–] BakedCatboy@lemmy.ml 3 points 25 minutes ago

What kind of tablet do you have that has 16gb of vram??

[–] mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago

Awesome, glad they're doing it.

The problem is the price and the timeframe. The next batch is available next May?

For that price, more than a year from now, you'll likely be able to assemble or purchase a small form factor PC and build it out with similar or better components for significantly cheaper.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Man its gotta be a tough time to launch a console that can be cost competitive.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

I gotta say, business wise they are handling it well IMO, although who knows if it will work on yhe long run.

Due to high demand, Playnix Console will be sold in monthly batches and to offer you the best possible price, we adjust the cost of each batch based on the actual price of components (especially RAM) at the time of manufacturing. This means the price may vary from one batch to the next.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

So far they've sold out the first three batches already, so either they're lowballing their production runs or demand is strong.