Earlier this year, Panic, the company behind the whimsical Playdate gaming handheld, revealed that a shipment containing more than a thousand of the devices had been stolen. Several months and a lot of sleuthing later, the rogue shipments have been discovered after seemingly being dumped on the pavement outside a random restaurant in North Las Vegas. “Did you hear the story about how $US400k worth of Playdates were misdelivered by FedEx to a construction site near our warehouse?” the Playdate account tweeted today.
“And then someone just...
stole them? Seriously. Well, guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning? Welcome back stolen Playdates!” Did you hear the story about how $400k worth of Playdates were misdelivered by FedEx to a construction site near our warehouse? And then someone just..
. stole them? Seriously. Well, guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning? Welcome back stolen Playdates! pic.
twitter.com/LseJKp9sOO — Playdate (@playdate) May 30, 2024 Photos from the location showed dozens of boxes full of Playdates outside of what looks like an unfinished steakhouse in a vacant lot that’s still under construction. Some of the boxes were just hanging out in the street like whoever was ditching them decided halfway through stacking them along the wall that they didn’t actually give a fuck.
The Playdate is a $US200 handheld with a crank that plays indie games designed for it its unique screen and inputs. One of t.