[STEAM] The Playdate Stereo Dock has been shelved

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So long for now, Playdate Stereo Dock. | Screenshot: Playdate Well, we finally know

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. It’s not coming — at least, not for a while. In an

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, the company describes the challenges it faced in getting a good prototype, but says that, in the end, the device didn’t meet its standards.

The Stereo Dock was going to be a small desktop Bluetooth speaker and pen holder that you could attach a Playdate to. Panic first

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in 2021, when it was still working toward releasing the Playdate.

On the web page, the company describes the unexpected challenges it faced getting the Stereo Dock to market:

What happened? Well, our first regret was assuming that our factory at that time — a factory that made lots of Bluetooth...

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