I don't know. I think the main thing is selling all the Pyras that can reasonably be built with the available stocked components.
Then depending on how many orders remain, and how difficult it is to source components for the same design, decide whether to build more Pyras with the current design.
A new redesign now seems an academic exercise. It's obvious that after 8 or 10 years designs seem outdated, but it seems the available resources now are even less than back then . so any new design now would be as doomed or more than it was.
I don't mean to say we can't all discuss priorities, connectors and wanted features this decade. But someone has to go there, do the designs, build prototypes, write software, test it all, do a small production run, optimize, redesign maybe, do a mass production...
(and put money upfront for all of that).
For what? for 200 orders ? It makes no sense. And 100 of those orders would be from people who already have a Pyra and might forget to contribute to the current Pyra when they have a newer model.
I think there're more handheld devices today, either game-console like or microlaptop like, and it's harder to fit a new one in. And I don't like any current SOC, because they all need blobs, even to boot. I don't like the OMAP in the Pyra so much, but nowadays it's all worse. The last usable SOC was RK3399, and it's now old and I think too hot and power demanding. New Mali GPUs require blobs, TF-A is often released as binary without source, DRAM init is usually a blob... Nothing that inspires any confidence, and if I can't be sure of what the most privileged code does to my device, I could as well buy Android or Apple crap.
I think it's best to sell Pyras with the current design to those who still want them, and hope some more software contributions come this way. If one wants a longer dinasty for the Pyra, one could open source hardware designs, like case or PCBs or something in case someone wants to evolve it somehow. Maybe newer batteries can be smaller in size with the same charge, and win some room to fit some almost standard SOM (Rapsberry Pi CM4, MNT reform, or whatever non Pyra-specific). But even opening it more is a lot of work for no pay, and once done, there's no warranty anyone will take it and evolve it, so... let's just build what's already designed. If there's no time or money to do this, there's still less to do new designs. Unless someone wants to do it as a hobby and pay it from their pockets.
