- Hakuso@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish2 hours
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.mlEnglish9 minutes
I mean that is true, but still nowhere near the same thing as 16GB ram and 16GB dedicated vram. This thing has a 9070xt and a 600W PSU, so the other commenters claim that they have a higher specced tablet is just kind of absurd, especially since I don’t believe there’s a tablet in existence with discrete graphics. And even if it did, beating a recent gen card like a 9070 would be a really tall order.
- realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish5 hours
Man its gotta be a tough time to launch a console that can be cost competitive.
- ogeist@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
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.worksEnglish3 hours
So far they’ve sold out the first three batches already, so either they’re lowballing their production runs or demand is strong.
- mctoasterson@reddthat.comEnglish3 hours
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.
