Panic’s Playdate continues to be one of the most anticipated devices by many users today. Especially for all those video game lovers and it is not for less, because this portable console has a very particular design and now it has just announced that you can play with it on a big screen (or almost).
Play with Playdate on the big screen
Panic announced that its particular and striking Playdate portable console will allow you to enjoy your games on a big screen. Or more or less that is the idea, because really everything consists of taking advantage of the mirror mode to be able to see on a computer screen what the device shows on its own.
How this is done is very simple, through the latest update of the application available for PC, Mac and Linux . You just have to run it and after activating the mirror mode, start seeing everything that happens on the console in real time.
Here’s a fun little new thing we made. Plug in your Playdate, launch this app, and it will mirror your Playdate screen to your PC / Mac / Linux in real-time. Perfect for streamers, YouTubers, and better accessibility. Input from the PC can pass through to the Playdate also! pic.twitter.com/OE8q1X0txC
– Playdate (@playdate) March 24, 2021
Thus, as you can see in this small clip published by the company on Twitter, although the size is still small compared to that of the screen where it is displayed, it makes sense that this is the way it should be, since stretching the pixels would cause it to lose image quality as it happens. with Gameboy emulators and the like.
Anyway, this function is not really designed to play on the big screen but to make it much easier to perform one of the fashionable activities today: streaming content.
Thus, having the image on the computer screen would be much more convenient for its broadcast on platforms such as Twitch mainly or on other types of Instagram or YouTube.
Playdate, a long-awaited laptop
It is one of the most anticipated releases and we still do not have a definitive date. Playdate , in case there are any clueless still in the room, is a portable console developed by Panic that does not seek to compete against more popular options such as the Nintendo Switch or directly mobile devices. The idea of the company is to offer something different and we believe that they achieve it.
This device, which has been delayed and will not be officially launched until mid-2021 and at a price of $ 149 , remains one of the most interesting among all lovers of gadgets and video games. Because by design it is very striking, but also because of the games that it is going to play.
These titles are designed for the device and seek to give it extra value in everything related to entertainment. In addition, as they already mentioned, the idea is to launch a kind of service where new games will appear every week for a certain number. That would be a first season and then a second would come which, depending on the success, could be prolonged more and more.
Now, with this new feature that will facilitate streaming, the company seems to have seen very well what is the ideal way for many more users to learn about its product once it is on the market. Because it cannot be denied that Twitch and other live streaming platforms are right now the number one entertainment option for millions of users.