I’d like to take a moment to talk to you about yolk. Yolk is objectively the best colour. There will be some amongst you who say this cannot be true, that taste is personal and so one colour, therefore, cannot “objectively” be better than another. Well, those people are objectively wrong.
Playdate
- Made by: Panic Inc., Teenage Engineering
- Developers: Chuhai Labs, Sweet Baby Inc. and Friends, Chris Makis, uvula, more.
- Availability: Coming late 2021, pre-order from 29th July 6pm BST
The crank doesn’t charge the console or anything like that – it’s another input, the Playdate’s version of an analog stick, alongside a simple D-pad, the two A and B face buttons, a menu button and a lock one. There’s a little speaker, a headphone jack, and a USB-C port for charging and presumably downloading the new games when they come out. And… that’s it. Simplicity and charm are very much the point – the basic console is the simplicity, the crank and the colour and the branding the charm – which means they’re also the source of everything that does and doesn’t work with the Playdate so far.