Teardown shows the Playdate won’t suffer from controller drift like the Switch

Although the Panic Pinic game handheld will not visit the first adopters until the end of the year, the Ifixit had a chance to look inside the unit. “Unfortunately, he did not come with any match, then a slip was on everything she was good,” IFixit said, for those who could be jealous that the company had a unit before doing it.

Taking away from the pocket hand, IFixit found a console with mainly modest internal components. Playdate has an 180 MHz processor supported by 16 MB of memory and 4GB flash storage. The power supply is a 2.74 WH battery with about 25% of the capacity of the electric cell you will find inside the iPhone 12.

But what you want to know is the signature of the game game. According to IFixit, panic and teenage engineering have swam a cylindrical magnet in the component tree. This magnet works in conjunction with a shell effect sensor to trigger a crank input. It’s a simple but effective design that should last. “One thing this crank will not do? Drift. There is no wiper surface or spring or sensor to arrange,” says the company, referring to the well-known controller number of Nintendo.

Although this is not a laptop-frame, it is clear that panic and teen engineering have designed the game game with at least one eye to repair. A charming IFixit sticker found when opening the device has declared “break”, do not remove, the components would cancel the warranty. Many internal most likely to fail first, including the battery and headphone jack, were either modular or easily accessible. The components like the display and the USB-C port will be more difficult to replace, but the game game looks enough friendly to enjoy a modding scene as the Game Boy advance.