Atari is working on a new console - Sensationalist Headlines

[url]https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/16/atari-is-indeed-working-on-a-new-console-says-ceo/[/url] [QUOTE]Chesais also revealed that the new product, which has been "years in the making", will include the woodgrain panelling seen in the teaser video though the final design has yet to be determined. He also noted that the hardware will be PC-based. The Atari CEO remained mum on most other details of the project.[/QUOTE] [media]https://twitter.com/atari/status/875032249711898624[/media] [url]https://www.ataribox.com/[/url] Can't imagine this working out that well, but good luck Atari.

Reminder that the Atari that created all of the previous consoles is long dead and that this is actually Infogrames using their name. Actually it seems to have gone one or two layers deeper now. I wonder how many companies will be able to to use Atari's name before the brand is rendered completely worthless.

presumably a NES classic type device under the guise of being something there is any demand for. Atari 2600 plug in consoles have been around for years, so that wouldn't be anything new if that turns out to be what it is. Most of the demand for an Atari console along these lines has been satisfied for years, even by the previous entity before they went bankrupt I think. Besides that, pretty much all Atari games from the early years have aged horrifically.

[QUOTE=nintenman1;52369934]presumably a NES classic type device under the guise of being something there is any demand for. [/QUOTE] [url]https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/16/atari-is-indeed-working-on-a-new-console-says-ceo/[/url] [QUOTE]He also noted that the hardware will be PC-based. The Atari CEO remained mum on most other details of the project.[/QUOTE]

i'm smellin' bankruptcy..

Atari is basically a bunch of lawyers sitting on old IPs, it's not a tech company. This is most likely them just licensing the name to somebody else.

[QUOTE=Wii60;52369956][url]https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/16/atari-is-indeed-working-on-a-new-console-says-ceo/[/url][/QUOTE] ok, I'll bite I guess. PC based to what end? Atari is nothing but a shell company as it stands, they exist solely to hold the IP acquired after the second Atari went bankrupt after the failure of the jaguar. They don't really have any money, and have shelled out a few shitty games in the last 10 odd years (as a publishing brand). They have no internal capacity to do anything like this aside from the most barebones by the book "PC in a box" sort of thing possible. Atari as a brand in gaming is pretty much irrelevant now, has been for over 15 years. I am not sure what they hope to accomplish if this supposed system is anything noteworthy from a hardware point of view.

The bigger news is that Atari still exists

Who's gonna make games for it?

Can't wait for the Atari Tiger/10,400 and Atari's inevitable bankruptcy.

Atari 8200

Time will tell whether this is actually worthwhile, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

If its not completely covered in fake wood paneling I'm going to be disappointed.

If it's an actual new console, they're fairly fucked. It's considerably impossible to start a new console without it being an Xbox, a Playstation, or a Nintendo product.

The fact that they're trying to do a woodgrain Nostalgia thing shows how out of touch they are. Nobody is going to pay big console money for something like that.

You know what? Fuck it. Go for it. The triumvirate of dominating consoles are beginning to falter. Now is a good a time as ever to enter the market.

If it's an Atari brand Steambox then I could see it being a good idea depending on the hardware. If they think they have a chance at competing with Sony and Microsoft it's going to be a trainwreck.

[QUOTE=General J;52371066]You know what? Fuck it. Go for it. The triumvirate of dominating consoles are beginning to falter. Now is a good a time as ever to enter the market.[/QUOTE] I'm somewhat skeptical that a company that literally has never released a good game ever is ready to uproot fucking Microsoft and sony

i feel like it's a wood paneled atari brand prebuilt pc

[QUOTE=Aredbomb;52369910]Reminder that the Atari that created all of the previous consoles is long dead and that this is actually Infogrames using their name. Actually it seems to have gone one or two layers deeper now. I wonder how many companies will be able to to use Atari's name before the brand is rendered completely worthless.[/QUOTE] One or two layers deeper might also be an understatement

[t]http://i.imgur.com/1bQOrdd.png[/t] Best of luck, Atari.

[QUOTE=Wii60;52369956][url]https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/16/atari-is-indeed-working-on-a-new-console-says-ceo/[/url][/QUOTE] I mean that proves fucking nothing really since it emulation could fall under the system being PC based

[QUOTE=madnath619;52371381]I mean that proves fucking nothing really since it emulation could fall under the system being PC based[/QUOTE] IIRC they use an ARM-based system for their flashback consoles aside from the first two, which were based on NES & 2600 hardware respectively. I doubt they'd hype up their PC hardware if it's going to be playing the same games they've recycled over 7 times now.

Atari Ouya 2.

[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;52371231][t]http://i.imgur.com/1bQOrdd.png[/t] Best of luck, Atari.[/QUOTE] Nintendo: Doomed since 1992!

I kind of want to know more about how MS wedged their way into the console market with Xbox, I can't imagine how a company could do that today

[QUOTE=Nebukadnezzer;52370063]The bigger news is that Atari still exists[/QUOTE] They kind of don't. They were swapped around so much that it's not at all the same company anymore.

[QUOTE=Bob The Knob;52372422]I kind of want to know more about how MS wedged their way into the console market with Xbox, I can't imagine how a company could do that today[/QUOTE] What is there to wonder; they had already established DirectX on PC and had infinite amounts of money to brute force themselves on the console market with crazy marketing and some high profile exclusives. They were also lucky enough that Dreamcast and GameCube had their share of issues and didn't sell well. Sega had to drop out because they didn't have as much money to keep burning as MS, and after GameCube Nintendo started making more casual consoles. There was only Sony left to directly compete with. This could be repeated today only if a same thing happens; one of the 3 companies drops out and other one replaces it, and most likely candidates would be Apple or Google; they have their own stores already and they have plenty of money to burn, similar to MS in early 2000s, they could brute force themselves.

[QUOTE=TectoImprov;52372202]Nintendo: Doomed since 1992![/QUOTE] The funnest part of this is that Sony debuted the original Playstation around the time he claimed that the industry was going to crash.

[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;52371231][t]http://i.imgur.com/1bQOrdd.png[/t] Best of luck, Atari.[/QUOTE] Who is this? Can I get context?