Glow In The Dark Analogue Pocket Announced

Neat. Nice shade of glow in the dark green. I still want an Analogue Pocket, just don’t need one.

The Pocket hasn't had an update in 4 months and multiple promises like additional display modes and DAC support remain behind schedule and unfulfilled. The Dock continues to feel jury-rigged with limited resolution options compared to prior Analogue hardware.

But at least they made a glowy version?

What the hell is going on at Analogue? The Pocket remains a nice piece of hardware if you have the time and patience to get the most out of it. But Analogue is quickly turning into a weird reclusive company that sells only one product, can't bother to support it correctly, and thinks the best way to address customer communication is to ignore it.

Lovely, but personnally i am happy with my white, not sure if they are competing resources, but their firmware updates are way behind planning, so they should focus on that...

Great that they have production now under control

Releasing a limited edition model a month after finally shipping orders that were placed nearly 18 months ago isn't a good look IMHO. They could've at least given those waiting longest the option of the glow-in-the-dark model before they shipped the originals.

Looks like this Limited one is going to be on sale before I've even received my original order from Nov last year (some have been waiting since April22). Got the 'processing' email a couple of weeks ago, then the 'shipping' email on Friday with a tracking number - it still hasn't moved yet...

@dmcc0 Not sure why you're complaining though, you could always cancelled your original pre-order for the glow in the dark one. It's just gonna be a bit longer wait and more expensive.

@Serpenterror Actually it could be a shorter wait. These glow in the dark ones ship out a couple days after they go up for orders.

@Serpenterror Except that the final day for me to cancel the original pre-order was 20th August so cancelling not an option. I'm guessing most of the pre-orders that are shipping this month have received the email or even their Pocket by now and are not able to cancel if they wanted to. Would've made more sense to announce the LE one and allow folk to cancel before a big batch of pre-orders got shipped.

Thankfully I don't like the LE one, so not really an issue for me personally, but might be for some.

@dmcc0 - If they had announced this months ago while people had been still waiting for their pre-orders for over a year in some cases then people would be attacking them for announcing a new design before they'd fulfilled their massive existing backlog. People were going to complain either way.

@Geonjaha of course there's always someone going to complain - I just think if they'd announced it in July at the same time as the announcement about shipping the latest batch - and given customers that were still waiting for their pre-order the option to upgrade - it would've generated a lot of goodwill from those that were still waiting.

I guess the numbers still waiting for pre-orders meant they couldn't risk too many people wanting to upgrade to the LE version and potentially not having enough - the announcement said numbers were extremely limited.

Not really interested. Glow in the dark things are a nice novelty but eventually that aspect wears off and you're left with a green analogue pocket.

I would rather they focus on further developing the Pocket. I've been having issues with the dock and my wireless controller. It could be the firmware on the controller, but I'd like to use the controller and have it work (8bitdo Pro 2 Wireless) but if I want to get out of certain cores I have to unplug the system from the dock and such from that way.

Honestly, I might as well just play my Retrofreak.