I still don´t see reasons for looking at gpd win as a competitor to the pyra, apart from form, everything else is different.
Kids hyped after a dream portable steam handheld are again in for a threat, games for the pc are usually made for desktops, this thing is not going to handle steam with AAA games and I will be amazed if the windows os handling itself is going to be any cooler. I have worked with windows for a long time and nowadays I can keep a system healthy and stable for more then 5 years of daily use. That is not the case with 100% of people I know, the majority bust the OS within months of use and end up with a broken thing since these same people can not reinstall the OS or something like that.
So the only costumers the Pyra might loose for the GPD are the ones that are not its target at all, specially impulsive buyers.
Sure their money could help the success of Pyra even if they have no idea what they are buying but is it really needed?
The whole Pyra production is an unique adventure in which I have seen no company do similar and I doubt any will.
Its base is trust and truth, and the way Ed is directing things is superbly honest.
I kind of think there is a fear lurking around that the GPD may pose a threat and that maybe whoever does the first campaign is going to pocket the other.
So pushing a Pyra campaign just to address that sounds like a rushed thing to pocket the impulsive buyers, something I feel this project is not intended to.
I feel the Pyra is not a product targeted as a boom tech that will sell millions of units day one, but a tool for those who know what they want or are learning to do so. It requires quite a modest boot sale (~1500 units). It is more of a product people will discover and sales shall be small but constant.
Within an year, Pyra will be going strong with its community while GPD will probably have a sequel unit coming to address problems of the first one should it sell enough. You all know GPD´s costumers will be left behind on support after the purchase. There is no ground to see that as a threat.
In 1993 my brother wanted to buy a sound system and decided for a panasonic rx-dt707. This system costed 4x the price of similar cheap chinese rebranded american crap and the issue of quality/price was discussed.
23 years later I´m still using this as my major sound system, it is as good as new and the quality can only be beaten by very expensive professional hardware.
By the looks of it, it is going to live and serve me for even more years, nothing that the 4 cheap systems could ever dream to achieve.
If you have been through situations like this, and I´m sure the majority of this community had, a cheap choice is not a choice. If you don´t have money you save for it.
GPD will be the usual buy-new-every-year entertainment handheld without support, the Pyra is a tool of work that can also do entertainment, VERY different things.
