$400k worth of Playdate game consoles have disappeared in Las Vegas.
That’s according to Panic, the hardware maker behind the palm-sized, crank-operated console, with company co-founder Cabel Sasser calling it “a bit of a true crime drama” (thanks, Game File).
Sasser spoke at GDC last week, when he revealed this news, stating pallets containing the consoles had gone missing in Las Vegas. Panic, he said, was still trying to track them down.
“We checked up on our inventory levels and it was a little bit short,” Sasser said during his GDC panel – so much so that the company quickly contacted its shipping centre.
“And they’re like, ‘Yeah, weird. These pallets – FedEx said they were delivered, but we have no trace of them. But another thing you might want to know that’s weird is, two weeks after your pallets went missing, two other pallets were delivered by FedEx to the construction site next door instead of our shipping warehouse’.”
Panic subsequently received a picture of these particular Playdate pallets “just sitting where they’re building a Circle K in north Las Vegas,” Sasser said.
“The person that signed for the two pallets they recovered was the same person that signed for the two pallets [they] have yet to recover,” Sasser continued, adding “there’s a lot of research happening” on the whole thing right now.