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highly limited quantities 🙄

When I saw the title I was excited but I'm pretty disappointed by the look on these. I was hoping for an atomic purple style transparent case but these look flimsy and plasticky in a way that is a turnoff. Plus something about using transparent buttons comes off as cheap.

I'm sure this will still sell out in about 12 seconds but it's not for me.

Yeah they look cheap to me as well. They’re quickly overstaying their welcome with these highly limited releases etc.

Shipping is pretty high. These things were an easy 150-200 flip. Now they’re saturating the market with tons of them so I don’t know if you’d be able to move them.

The colors add zero value. Not to mention, those of us who pre-ordered had to wait a year+ or those who paid $600 in the aftermarket, now you can just order and they ship within 2 weeks

The glow one was in hand within 10 days. They’re milking these things now. I’m holding out for hello kitty version.

yea, I like the products, but I don't love their business practices. The ridiculous shipping costs, the long wait to receive product, the clearly artificial scarcity...They are one R&D division (I think it's just Kevtris and one other guy) away from being LRG.

Nah, don't care about these at all. At least the glow in the dark version was novel.

I'll start paying attention if they refresh with a horizontal form factor like the original GBA.

Oh yeah the OG GBA form factor would be in instabuy - especially if it was sold in Glacier.

Also if they released the GameCube's Indigo or Spice Orange i'd be interested as well. These translucent ones look like someone bought a transparent shell off of AliBaba.

I think clear, black, purple and green will be in demand. Maybe red and blue would be easier score.

The green one looks pretty nice with their photo lighting. Probably wouldn't look nearly as cool in everyday light though

They make their photos in predator vision or something. The glow photos are awful.

I won't be getting. I'm happy with the White Pocket I do have, although I haven't been using it as much within the last year. These limited edition releases/colors are just geared toward fomo-addicts.

Glow in the dark still better. Or $199.99 OG models.

Milking that thing as if there was no tomorrow.

As long as they keep selling out in 12 seconds, wouldn't you?

They made a product that a lot of people really want. It apparently plays all your old game boy games as good or better than on original hardware.

And with the cost of original hardware getting up there (not to mention the age/wear and tear), I can see why so many people are into these.

It's not the hardware I'm crapting on. It's the deceptive practice of artificially "selling out" and producing highly limited quantities.

@Lunar You don't think they are actually selling out of the units?

No, they are not limited to anything. Nothing is keeping them from churning out more units of any of their hardware...except for themselves. And the only reason I can think of is to artificially inflate the demand.

Is there risk to overproduce? Sure. So why not take pre-orders, fulfilled those orders then do another batch of pre-orders.

At this time, they still owe me Pocket Cart Adapter set pre-order, Duo pre-order, but instead they are milking candy color shelled Pockets? If their resources are truly limited...then this shouldn't be what they are selling right now.

Fulfill your pre-orders first.

Lunar wrote:.

Now I understand why this recent rush to produce LE systems has you upset.

I fully agree with you then.

Idk who feels worse, the people who bought black/white Pockets that just got theirs after waiting years and saw glow in the dark limited units sold that ship in two weeks, or the people who bought into the glow in the dark unit only to see color-fun translucent models being offered not even two months after they just bought into the last gimmick. Or people who are still waiting on crap they ordered in 2021 throwing their arms up in the air at this crap in general.

This is definitely a company. Only reason they haven't gone bankrupt is squeezing all these LE units in to fund their backorders. Also how many times you fudgein dummies gonna buy the same gosh darn FPGA crap slapped in a new plastic case?

DarkFact wrote:

I suspect there is more than a little truth to that. Like companies who use future kickstarters to cover fulfillment costs from their prior ones because they were bad at money management. And the cycle repeats until it falls apart.

With this, though, now that "chip shortage" isn't the first thing out of every tech company's PR hole, it could be that they have finally gotten production to a point where they are cost effective to mass produce, so their profit margins on the base systems are probably pretty good.

The accessories and cart adapters on the other hand maybe not as much.


I don't think most people are buying more than one (not to keep anyway).

Does anyone here have multiple orders for multiple flavors that you just couldn't live without?

People didn't even do that with the fruit flavored N64 variants back in the day - it wasn't until n64 got cheap thst they started to collect variant systems and then it got uncheap again.

Oh, I mean in general. Analogue NT Mini, Super NT, Mega SG, other than having a screen and a separate FPGA chip even the Pocket's the same fudging thing. That said, I've certainly seen more than one person on Twitter being like "I don't need a third Pocket, I don't need a third pocket..." So even completely literally, there are dummies like that out there.

It's unbelievable how crap these guys have been at scaling. They have to keep crap canning products that they purposely made to be sustainable because they cannot scale to save their lives, and there's STILL nothing in their fudging store to buy, several years into this. It's still this exotic "Ooooh can I get it, I hope I get it, I hope I don't miss out, you might say I'm fearful on missing out, I mean they limit it to ONLY TWO UNITS PER SALE!" ugh. Cut my wrist into pieces.

Where is the Analogue Duo!!?

NO

RVM wrote:

There's a timeline where Analogue cancels all Duo pre-orders, but instead of refunding everybody, they send them a white/black and purple Pocket.

Then, they change their company name to Pocket.

Pocket Pocket, now available in beige. Highly limited quantities. Pre-order soon.
Pocket Pocket 2: Pocket Boogaloo, now with oversized battery pack and worm light. Ships 2027.

No joke they may decide to drop a PCE express / pocket. Hold out for that one in hello kitty too.

They don't need a whole new PCE pocket. They just need to release the cartridge adapter that they've had on Pre-order forever.

I was gonna say, if they didn't say a HuCard adapter was possible when they sold this thing to you, you got scammed

Course, if it never comes out, you got scammed anyways

Got mine, hope those who wanted it here had good luck.

If not, no big deal. In 2 weeks time, right before they ship out a single system from this batch.

Ultimate Limited Edition will be available, ships in 1 week!

I tried for a purple one but couldn't get it. I ended up with the blue one.

All gone. If you got one nice. Now go flip it asap.

My Analogue Pocket plays PS2, and it was cheaper than yours :D

And importantly it PLAYS EVERYTHING IN ONE PACKAGE WITHOUT HAVING TO BUY A NEW ONE FOR ANOTHER CART SLOT because it ain't got no slots

You should eBay it for $500 or so.

I could probably get a hundred grand easy

anyone selling a GitD pocket after upgrading? Let me know!

DarkFact wrote:

How do you put your legally owned Ps2 discs into this?

Kommie wrote:

Very delicately.

Those portable PS2s - even the cheap, broken ones from AliExpress - are not cheaper than an Analogue Pocket.

(They're still super sweet, though.)