New Atari Console that Ataribox?

[AlecRob]

VCS May just be considered the continuation of Ataris little known IBM PC compatible series of machines

 

 

I think people should keep an open mind. This new Atari could turn into an awesome company, if they play their cards right...

Edited May 7, 2018 by AlecRob

[JBerel]

[+KaeruYojimbo]

ATARI SA isnt Atari but Atari hasnt been the original Atari since the late 70s... I see this Atari as being every bit as legit as the one who made the Jaguar...

 

Even when Atari was Atari, they were barely Atari hahahahha

 

When Atari was sold to Warner it was still the same company, with the same employees operating out of the same building, just with someone new controlling the purse strings. Even when it was split and Jack Tramiel bought the home division, it was still a continuation of at least part of the original company.

 

Atari SA is a software company (Infogrames) with no connection to the original Atari that bought the name from someone who bought the name from someone who bought the name after Tramiel's Atari closed its doors.

 

My problem isn't with them calling themselves Atari. They paid for the name, they should get to use it. My problem is that in three weeks they're going to start taking money for a console that doesn't exist.

 

Unless they call off this latest crowdfunding campaign pre-order too.

Edited May 7, 2018 by KaeruYojimbo

[Dr Manhattan]

What is "success" here? They just want your money, as much as they can get. It doesn't matter how much, unless their "preorder" numbers make it look like they'll lose money, in which case they'll bail like usual. So don't give them any money.

 

There's a part of me that wants to pretend that NuTari wants to make a legitimate product and not just a nostalgia based cash-run scam. I say this knowing full well that the people making this product are borderline criminals.

 

I think we should start a betting pool. Will the VCS crowd funding campaign succeed? Will the campaign be delayed again? Will the product ever see the light of day?

[Flojomojo]

Should be AtariVc$

 

 

V¢S

[CommanderGrimm]

Atari Pi prototype version 1.0

[JBerel]

Nice render. ​

 

Now go the the hardware store to get you a strip of that adhesive back wood laminate and an exacto knife and you've completed 3 years of development at @tawee.

Edited May 7, 2018 by JBerel

[+Nathan Strum]

Atari SA is a software company (Infogrames) with no connection to the original Atari that bought the name from someone who bought the name from someone who bought the name after Tramiel's Atari closed its doors.

 

I think calling them a software company is being far too generous. They couldn't even get a new version of RollerCoaster Tycoon off the ground themselves, without doing a (now failed) crowdfunding campaign.

 

At best, they're an intellectual property holding company.

[+frankodragon]

I'm taking a guess but I think Infogrames.. err Atari SA is just doing this so they can receive bragging rights. I mean, what other video game company invested $50K in a 3 minute song about themselves? Do you know how many tacos $50K can buy?

 

 

Maybe the V¢S should be, in value, the same as Japanese Pesos?

 

[+frankodragon]

Forget about Tuesday. I'm having a Taco Monday.

 

[+KaeruYojimbo]

 

I think calling them a software company is being far too generous. They couldn't even get a new version of RollerCoaster Tycoon off the ground themselves, without doing a (now failed) crowdfunding campaign.

 

At best, they're an intellectual property holding company.

 

Yeah, it probably would have been more accurate to say something more like "Atari SA was a software company."

 

I never really paid much attention to Infogrames, so I have no idea how much of the original company still exists in what now calls itself Atari SA.

Edited May 8, 2018 by KaeruYojimbo

[RAShepherd]

News:

It seems as if Atari just can't escape the woes of the gaming industry. This time around the company is facing a rather debilitating lawsuit from the developer of RollerCoaster Tycoon, all because there's now a big dispute when it comes to what Atari owes the developer in full.

TMZ is reporting that Frontier Development is suing Atari for $2.2 million. This all stems from work done on previous RollerCoaster Tycoon games that have been released over the years, but Frontier claims that there have been no royalties paid from those sales.

The $2.2 million is the combination of royalties that Frontier claims Atari owes them for work that had been done on the series since 2003. In response, Atari removed the ability to purchase RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 from Steam and GOG.compending the outcome of the lawsuit, as reported by Game Informer. What's very interesting here is that in April, TMZ reported that Frontier examined the ownership data from another website which showed the RollerCoaster Tycoon games had sold more than what Atari had reported to Frontier.

The lawsuit states that total royalties should have come up to $3.37 million, but the company was only paid $1.17 million instead, and that there's $2.2 million missing from the stack.

The lawsuit spawned from the fact that after Frontier attempted to find out what the real sales data was like from Atari's own books, the company delayed when attempting to have an audit done on the sales reports.One interesting thing of note here is that when Frontier mentioned that it checked a website for ownership data, I do wonder if the company was referring to Steam Spy? The owner of Steam Spy mentioned previously that the reason he brought it back (after Valve changed the privacy data that crippled the service) was because developers and indie studios all wrote to him thanking him for the service and mentioned how invaluable the data was when it came to user engagement, sales trajectory, and comparative analysis.

One definitely has to wonder if Steam Spy played any role in Frontier Developments measuring the ownership data with what data Atari had provided them when it came to sales?

Regardless of how Frontier Developments acquired the data, the studio decided to sue Atari for back-pay on royalties. This will likely hamper Atari's upcoming efforts to crowdfund the new Atari VCS this month, especially if the company will have to spend time and money battling it out in court with Frontier Developments.

The developers, however, have a fall back in the form of Elite Dangerous, which was also crowdfunded and made its way to home consoles and PC. Atari, on the other hand, doesn't quite have any modern day success stories to use as leverage. The latest few games released by Atari actually happened to be RollerCoaster Tycoon World, which did not go over well with fans at all, and before that was the poorly received reboot of Alone in the Dark called Alone in the Dark: Illumination.

Things could get hairy for Atari once more if the courts find favor with Frontier Developments and force Atari to pay up the $2.2 million. At that point, one would certainly have to question what might become of the Atari VCS?

(Sorry crap knows what happened to the formatting!)

[carlsson]

To be honest, if I understand correctly the VCS is developed by a subsidiary on the west coast so in terms of staff resources it shouldn't be affected with what Atari back in France are battling, unless of course the dev team needs to be in constant touch with the mother company during the crowdfunding/preorder phase. In the end the VCS is an Atari product of course so all the questions about what it is, what it will do, for whom it is intended etc should be directed to either party.

 

I have no clue what the liquidity of Atari (SA) was either before or after the recent investor reissue, if their wallet was big enough to take a hit of 2 million USD even before the addition of 7.5 million Euro planned to be spent on developing existing intellectual properties. If RollerCoaster Tycoon really has sold that much more than they reported to the developer, supposedly there should be money left in the bank unless Atari used it for other expenses.

[godslabrat]

$2.2 Million? Is Atari SA even worth that much?

[pacman000]

News:

The developers, however, have a fall back in the form of Elite Dangerous, which was also crowdfunded and made its way to home consoles and PC. Atari, on the other hand, doesn't quite have any modern day success stories to use as leverage. The latest few games released by Atari actually happened to be RollerCoaster Tycoon World, which did not go over well with fans at all, and before that was the poorly received reboot of Alone in the Dark called Alone in the Dark: Illumination.

Things could get hairy for Atari once more if the courts find favor with Frontier Developments and force Atari to pay up the $2.2 million. At that point, one would certainly have to question what might become of the Atari VCS?

(Sorry crap knows what happened to the formatting!)

I might've bought RCT World, but according to the back of the box I'd need an internet connection to get it to work.

[Atariboy2600]

[Flojomojo]

Website "Fatherly" is an apologist for the AtariBox.

 

It’s honestly a miracle that Atari was able to pull this off, having gone through the ringer of bankruptcy as well as having been bought and sold multiple times over the course of the last two decades.

Um, what have they "pulled off" thus far? A bunch of promises? I could have done that for free, from prison!

 

Atari promised that the new system wouldn’t cost more than $300. If that still sounds expensive in the era of virtually limitless games like Skyrim and Minecraft, consider the fact that when the first Atari system was released back in 1976 it cost $199, which, adjusted for inflation, is about $856 in today’s dollars.

And if you released a "video computer system" with 128 BYTES of memory in today's market, you wouldn't be able to ask eight dollars, let alone $856. What's your point, Daz?

 

Now, while it feels a lot like buying a dinky calculator watch that can also do your kid’s calculus homework, it also sounds perfect for the person who’s looking to indulge in some simple 1970s gaming while never missing a beat in the new digital landscape.

There we go, that's more like it. Damning with faint praise goes down much easier than simply regurgitating "Atari's" talking points.

 

Unfortunately, even though pre-orders start at the end of this month, Atari won’t be shipping the new VCS until some time in 2019.

Truly unfortunate that they will sell no console before it's time. Hey, maybe Atari should bring back Orson Welles to sell the VCS!

 

[JBerel]

Edited May 8, 2018 by JBerel

[cybercylon]

Let's look at the first sentence...

 

"The Atari VCS isn’t just a classic gaming system, it’s the classic gaming system,"

 

Let's fix that

 

The Atari VCS Mini NT and Super NT isn’t aren't just a classic gaming systems, it’s they are the classic gaming systems,

 

If the recent news about the Retron 77 is mostly true, there is even less of a reason for this Ataribox dingus to exist.

[godslabrat]

I saw TacoBox promoted on my Facebook feed yesterday. I have to wonder how much of it was clickbait greed, and how much of it was outright payola. For a company who has no details to offer the public, they're desperate for media attention.

[carlsson]

Can one really orchestrate a scam hype campaign from prison without helpers on the outside?

Edited May 8, 2018 by carlsson

[toiletunes]

All I know is the initial price to make that Notarivcmess just went up $2.2 million

[+KaeruYojimbo]

[The Historian]

Just out of curiosity..

 

For the 3 of you that might actually buy one, how important is the Wood-grain Vs the Black unit?

[Flojomojo]

Just out of curiosity..

 

For the 3 of you that might actually buy one, how important is the Wood-grain Vs the Black unit?