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The planned July release of Android gaming device GameStick has been pushed back by one month to mid-August, GameStick has announced.
In a Kickstarter update posted yesterday, the firm wrote: “It has taken a while longer to prepare the review UI than we had hoped. This is in part because the DEV version of the hardware this will be delivered on is slightly different from the production hardware. This has required a duplication of effort that we have had to balance with ensuring that work on the final units maintained momentum.
“As a result we have not yet had the feedback that we wanted prior to finalizing the UI and going ahead with mass production. In the spirit of Kickstarter it would be disingenuous of us to cut out this process and not give those backers the opportunity to comment on and help perfect the UI prior to completion.
“We have therefore taken the decision to push back the whole project by 1 month to ensure we can fit this process in.”
GameStick added that it is aware that the delay will frustrate the project’s backers, but the feedback step was a key pledge that couldn’t be ignored.
Units are now planned to ship from China in early August, arriving with backers by mid-August before making their way to stores.
Does anyone else feel that all the fuss over Android gaming devices has fallen away now we have the next-gen consoles to get excited about? The likes of GameStick and Ouya may have missed the boat.
Source: Kickstarter
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