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When Atari first revealed its Ataribox project at E3 this year, the announcement was met with skepticism as to whether the teaser was even real. The company hadn't made a home game console in more than 30 years and yet it was choosing 2017 to get back in the game? Welp, apparently so, because Atari CEO Fred Chesnais confirmed to GamesBeat on Friday that the company is doing just that.
I don't want to say they will fail, but their new system has to destroy the competition. It cannot be an equal competitor. If the performance and specs are the same as existing products, nobody will switch. I think of Apple. When they got into the cell phone game, everyone said that they had no business getting into the phone market because they were a computer company. Well, their phone destroyed the competition and people switched in droves. Atari has to do the same thing here.
This isn't even the same Atari that used to make consoles and games. The company, after becoming just a name only with some IP rights remaining, was merged with JTS. The name went dormant for a few years, then was sold to Hasbro Interactive, which itself swallowed up by Infogrames. After that, it has continues to exist only as a name/rights package that has gone through several more owners and a bankruptcy. The creative team of the 70's-80's has been gone for decades. As of 2013, the company only had ten employees.
Not sure how they think they can come up with a competitive console in this late day and age with no track record whatsoever, but maybe they can make 'em really cheap or something...
$250-300 for a console no one's clear about? Is there really a market for old Atari 2600 games, unless they are updated with modern graphics and gameplay?
Over the holidays, I tested out a Raspberry Pi that had every game from 2600, 5200, 7800, Coleco, Intellvision, NES / Famicom, SNES / Super Famicom, Sega MS, Genesis / Mega Drive and a few other games ever, played them all perfectly, and the guy was charging like $50 for it.
Over the holidays, I tested out a Raspberry Pi that had every game from 2600, 5200, 7800, Coleco, Intellvision, NES / Famicom, SNES / Super Famicom, Sega MS, Genesis / Mega Drive and a few other games ever, played them all perfectly, and the guy was charging like $50 for it.
I made one, the novelty wore off pretty quickly too before I wiped it.
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