Grench
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Happy birthday to my prototype pre-order! I placed my prototype pre-order on October 19th, 2015.
Current project status is:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/comprehensive-status-update.78390/
Just a few musings - nothing major for me to report on.
It has actually been a fun year. It is amazing how many details need to be worked through to make a device like this a reality. The fact that we all know so many of those details and have watched the progression in such detail is rather unprecedented.
Placing an early pre-order then watching the project progress actually adds a value that is hard to qantify. There is an entertainment factor that rests somewhere between sitting around a Japanese grill while watching a master performance chef preparing your dinner and standing at a roulette table waiting for the ball to stop spinning.
Several other gaming handheld companies have sprung up over the year. None of them have quite the intricacy of the Pyra though. The GPD Win is an interesting concept, but that keyboard, lack of ports, lack of expansion, lack of 4G - it isn't truly a Pyra competitor so much as another device in the space. PGS and SmachZ have both come along, left, returned and mutated. Still, none of them truly compete with the Pyra concept. The GPD Win, PGS and SmachZ emphasize handheld PC gaming - but have all made sacrifices that degrade the mobile handheld computer capabilities.
Years and years ago - it has been a truly long time - I justified my Pandora purchase on the basis of what it could do beyond games. I used it heavily for remote desktop, SSH, copying photo files between SD cards, reading/writing USB sticks - and yes, played a few games along the way. Those same reasons for buying a Pandora apply to the Pyra.
So, I'm $1700 and a year into the wait. Do I wish prototype production could have happened sooner? Yes and no. Greed for wanting my new toy says yes, practicality says no. I plan to -use- my prototype. Having it be closer in spec and function to the mass production systems has an advantage that should pay back over the years I plan to use it. That I was able to help support the project is a plus too.
Back to waiting...
Current project status is:
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/comprehensive-status-update.78390/
Just a few musings - nothing major for me to report on.
It has actually been a fun year. It is amazing how many details need to be worked through to make a device like this a reality. The fact that we all know so many of those details and have watched the progression in such detail is rather unprecedented.
Placing an early pre-order then watching the project progress actually adds a value that is hard to qantify. There is an entertainment factor that rests somewhere between sitting around a Japanese grill while watching a master performance chef preparing your dinner and standing at a roulette table waiting for the ball to stop spinning.
Several other gaming handheld companies have sprung up over the year. None of them have quite the intricacy of the Pyra though. The GPD Win is an interesting concept, but that keyboard, lack of ports, lack of expansion, lack of 4G - it isn't truly a Pyra competitor so much as another device in the space. PGS and SmachZ have both come along, left, returned and mutated. Still, none of them truly compete with the Pyra concept. The GPD Win, PGS and SmachZ emphasize handheld PC gaming - but have all made sacrifices that degrade the mobile handheld computer capabilities.
Years and years ago - it has been a truly long time - I justified my Pandora purchase on the basis of what it could do beyond games. I used it heavily for remote desktop, SSH, copying photo files between SD cards, reading/writing USB sticks - and yes, played a few games along the way. Those same reasons for buying a Pandora apply to the Pyra.
So, I'm $1700 and a year into the wait. Do I wish prototype production could have happened sooner? Yes and no. Greed for wanting my new toy says yes, practicality says no. I plan to -use- my prototype. Having it be closer in spec and function to the mass production systems has an advantage that should pay back over the years I plan to use it. That I was able to help support the project is a plus too.
Back to waiting...