Retro handhelds never go out of fashion. They keep on coming back every few years with new company designing them. Nintendo kept it alive even to date, then came Lyra and also the Steams handheld too contributed into the new handheld market.
And now the new handheld is coming into the market using the retro games and the design but this time with the blockchain power. Ordz games has decided to create one such device and they are building it with blockchain in mind, they named it Bitboy.
Let's talk about what is bitboy and how it is coming into the market and if it has any future based on the gaming market.
What is Bitboy Handheld? Who made it?
Ordz games has been into the retro games for a while now. And they are making the retro games based marketplace. And it is like integrating the blockchain into the retro games market. And then they thought why not make the handheld specific to the blockchain based crypto games and have the marketplace around. That is how the bitboy gaming handheld came into the world.
This handheld would also earn you crypto for playing the games on the handheld. And this would also make it easier for you to work around Gamefi market in the decentralized physical infrastructure network. You can check out the smalll handheld prototype which is very small to handle but can be used to play, in this tweet here.
Future of Blockchain Powered Handheld and Games Marketplace
Play to earn is a good marketplace and it can be used to bring new users and also pay them for the time they spent on the device and the marketplace. So this can be a good idea and it can make the marketplace lot easier to monetize and people who build handheld devices would be covering their investment very easily. Though size of the handheld is in question but it can be tweaked to compete with Steam deck.
Another interesting thing is that this is a market that can be tapped if the right amount of people and the their efforts are put into the handheld device. This would bring the blockchain games and the publisher in one umbrella competing for the game market and the exposure.In fact bitboy has got the seed rounds too. You can check the tweet about it.
Play to Earn Bitcoin on Handheld?
So the concept of getting paid for playing is not new. There are very simple puzzle games that offer you SATS for playing the game. And you get paid through the ZEBEDEE wallet. That concept can be used in variety of other games and it would make you hold the funds into the handheld. So you play on it and also earn the SATS along the way.
It's good to see that kids get to earn something for their time. In our time we had literally no access to such tech and also the parenting was bad that we barely had access to the computer. So in short such play to earn can be good for parents and the kids both if done in moderation. Hoping that more such games come into the market and sustain the gaming market.
Ordz games has not only made the retro games work on a new small handheld but also managed to get the funding for the further development. And it does not end here they are also into play to earn. In short the future for the Bitboy looks very bright.