I would think that OMAP3 processors might have fallen enough in price for EvilDragon to do a cheaper run of original Pandora consoles.
The Pyra looks like nice hardware, but I can't imagine it will have a fraction of the developer or user base that Pandora did.
I don't see it attracting attention like the Pandora did years ago. Even in 2008, Pandora was teased to be able to emulate Dreamcast.
What will the Pyra do that the Pandora couldn't? Probably actually run Dreamcast acceptably, which, as we've already mentioned, Android devices can already do. (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K66AE-j5W2g <-Here's the Pandora running Dreamcast in 2014, a year after the Shield Portable was released and doing the same thing in full speed with sound.)
PS2? Gamecube? Xbox? No way.
The move from 480p to 720p will be nice for native applications but a step backward for console emulation.
The array of sensors ("GPS, a 6-axis digital compass, a pressure-, humidity- and gas -sensor.") is interesting, but their utility for most applications is hard to fathom. Again, most Android devices already have GPS and multi-axis directional sensors.
The "market" just doesn't seem right for the Pyra. It looks like, simultaneously, "too much" hardware and "too little" of an upgrade over the predecessor device.
I still wish ED success. I hope you get a lot of joy out of the device, team_andromeda. I hope the gas sensor saves your life in a scenario that's Batman-as-hell.