Atari VCS (retail deals/discount thread)

[The Helper]

Got the all in model plus a speaker hat for under 200 hell ya!  Hopefully they will sell out!

 

[The Helper]

I remember when I got banned from the official Atari VCS group on Facebook for complaining about the 399 price tag LOL

 

[GraffitiTavern]

Finally pulled the trigger and ordered, $200 for a full bundle was too good a deal, more interested in the console end(excited to finally play the Recharged titles and BPM Boy) but having the PC option as a backup is nice because currently I only have a weak laptop.

[RadiATIon]

1 hour ago, Atari_JaguarVCS said:

Ended up picking one of these up as I now have a family member living in the states who’s willing to ship it out to me here in the UK! No idea what I’ll do with it as it’ll be my 4th VCS I own but I couldn’t resist at the price and the speaker hat looks really cool. I don’t think these will be around much longer might just keep it boxed. 

I understand you, but let new users buy it. Otherwise, the ecosystem will remain focused on a few owners who have 4/5 and who only pay once each game... If you like the VCS let new owner acquire it. This will be more games sales for Atari and third-party developers, it will ensure the development of the OS and other games... By buying at this price without buying new games in addition because you have 1 or 4 you pay 1x the game and you get it for all your consoles, you do not do the business of the ATARIVCS ecosystem. You understand? This message is not only for you, but for all those, like me, who have several. I have 2. One in the office, one in the living room. That's good enough.

Edited December 30, 2022 by RadiATIon
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[Atari_JaguarVCS]

10 minutes ago, RadiATIon said:

I understand you, but let new users buy it. Otherwise, the ecosystem will remain focused on a few owners who have 4/5 and who only pay once each game... If you like the VCS let new owner acquire it. This will be more games sales for Atari and third-party developers, it will ensure the development of the OS and other games...

I really don’t think me or anyone else owning 2,3,4 is going to make much of a difference in the long run. The Discord is full of people who own multiple and use them as a PC. I actually think there lots of people out there who just use it as a mini PC and never boot to the Atari OS and buy games. I plan on giving my Onyx to a friend though so there’s a new user to the community who will use it as a console first and purchase games. 

Edited December 30, 2022 by Atari_JaguarVCS

[THX-1138]

21 minutes ago, RadiATIon said:

I understand you, but let new users buy it. Otherwise, the ecosystem will remain focused on a few owners who have 4/5 and who only pay once each game... If you like the VCS let new owner acquire it. This will be more games sales for Atari and third-party developers, it will ensure the development of the OS and other games... By buying at this price without buying new games in addition because you have 1 or 4 you pay 1x the game and you get it for all your consoles, you do not do the business of the ATARIVCS ecosystem. You understand? This message is not only for you, but for all those, like me, who have several. I have 2. One in the office, one in the living room. That's good enough.

I think Atari have plenty of stock.  Getting units sold and money in the bank is the only important thing for Atari as a company and us as customers.

[THX-1138]

2 hours ago, Atari_JaguarVCS said:

Ended up picking one of these up as I now have a family member living in the states who’s willing to ship it out to me here in the UK! No idea what I’ll do with it as it’ll be my 4th VCS I own but I couldn’t resist at the price and the speaker hat looks really cool. I don’t think these will be around much longer might just keep it boxed. 

 

Lucky you! I wish I could get someone do that for me at those insane prices.

Edited December 30, 2022 by THX-1138

[+jeremiahjt]

At that price I finally pulled the trigger.  The Speaker Hat was the piece de resistance!  Who could pass that up?

Edited December 30, 2022 by jeremiahjt
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[THX-1138]

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[Atari_JaguarVCS]

3 minutes ago, THX-1138 said:

 

Lucky you! I wish I could get someone do that for me at those insane prices.

I just hope it makes it here in one piece when they ship it out to me lol. I’m super excited about this speaker hat that’s included I can see myself using that quite a bit to be honest! I honestly can’t believe the price either definitely an amazing purchase. 

[THX-1138]

3 minutes ago, Atari_JaguarVCS said:

I just hope it makes it here in one piece when they ship it out to me lol. I’m super excited about this speaker hat that’s included I can see myself using that quite a bit to be honest! I honestly can’t believe the price either definitely an amazing purchase. 

The hat never interested me to be honest, but if I could have bought one, I'd have gone for the VCS bundle and a watch.

[RadiATIon]

26 minutes ago, THX-1138 said:

I think Atari have plenty of stock.  Getting units sold and money in the bank is the only important thing for Atari as a company and us as customers.

Because you assume that only the happy owners of the console will buy one or several others. If you think like me that new users can buy it, for Atari, it brings as much money to the bank in the short term but it will also bring in more money in the medium term with new buyers on the store. What's the point of having 4? speculated on Atari's fall and that prices soar like the Jaguar ?

Edited December 30, 2022 by RadiATIon
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[THX-1138]

1 minute ago, RadiATIon said:

Because you assume that only the happy owners of the console will buy one or several others. If you think like me that new users can buy it, for Atari, it brings as much money to the bank in the short term but it will also bring in more money in the medium term with new buyers on the store.

Atari have a stack of them they need to sell.  There is more than enough for new customers and returning customers.

[bfollowell]

I really had no interest in a console, especially one that I didn't feel would get much support or last more than a couple of years. However, I certainly would've picked one up for $99 had I been one of the lucky ones to get in on GameStop's liquidation from a few months ago. Alas, that did not happen. $190 is still too much for my passing interest, but if these drop to $100 or less before they're all gone, I'll definitely pick one up. It would make a nice novelty console, as well as an excellent game streaming and emulation box for that price. If it never makes it to my target price, so be it. Good luck to everyone else buying them at any price. I hope you enjoy them.

Edited December 30, 2022 by bfollowell

[bfollowell]

1 hour ago, RadiATIon said:

I understand you, but let new users buy it. Otherwise, the ecosystem will remain focused on a few owners who have 4/5 and who only pay once each game... If you like the VCS let new owner acquire it. This will be more games sales for Atari and third-party developers, it will ensure the development of the OS and other games... By buying at this price without buying new games in addition because you have 1 or 4 you pay 1x the game and you get it for all your consoles, you do not do the business of the ATARIVCS ecosystem. You understand? This message is not only for you, but for all those, like me, who have several. I have 2. One in the office, one in the living room. That's good enough.

There has been very little support and only a small handful of titles released for it since it was introduced. Now they've stopped making them and are liquidating stock. What in the world makes you think there will ever be new titles released or more support offered for it?

Edited December 30, 2022 by bfollowell

[RadiATIon]

See Atari HALF-YEAR 2022/2023 RESULTS CONTINUED TRANSFORMATION EFFORTS :

 

● Hardware – The first-half of the year was primarily dedicated to the reorganization of the Hardware line of business which includes the suspension of direct hardware manufacturing relationships, notably with regards to the Atari VCS, for which a new commercial strategy has been implemented as of the end of calendar year 2022 and that will continue in calendar year 2023. In parallel, Atari is considering developing new hardware complementary to the Atari VCS with partners under licensing contracts.

● Licensing – Atari has focused its efforts on building new licensing verticals with the support of a brand licensing agency to drive new initiatives across new categories and geographies with well-respected and recognized international brands.

 

OUTLOOK In the second half of the year, Atari intends to continue to focus on executing its turnaround strategy and transformational efforts across all four lines of business:

● Games - Continue to launch new premium games leveraging Atari’s large catalog of intellectual property. Atari’s collaboration with Fig Publishing, Inc., part of the Republic ecosystem, to co-produce certain new video games in development is expected to start in the first quarter of calendar year 2023;

● Hardware - Implementation of a new commercial strategy for VCS and launching a complementary hardware strategy via partnerships and under license agreements;

● Licensing - Continued development of licensing opportunities with the support of a brand licensing agency across multiple geographies and verticals

[Atari_JaguarVCS]

For me I’d never look to profit of the VCS if the prices soared down the line just like the Atari Jaguar. I own 3 boxed Atari jaguars and multiple dental shells and the CD add on all boxed that I’d never ever sell even at todays crazy prices. I just love to collect hardware so owning 4 Atari VCS’s I would always have one if one breaks down the line and a replacement is difficult to find, although unlikely as the device has been super reliable to me 2 years in. I’ll continue to buy all new games released on the VCS as it’s been my favourite console by far, I’ll support it until Atari pull the plug but to be honest I think 2023 will be a great year for the VCS, there’s quite a lot of new games coming out and a lot of cool games in development from 3rd party devs on Discord so I see the software support will there even if they no longer manufacture the device or find a new manufacturer to launch the device outside the US. The beauty of the VCS is the ability to just use it as a PC it kinda reminds of back in the day when Sony allowed you to install Linux on the PS3 for a while lol.  I’ll definitely be giving my onyx up to my friend though so hopefully Atari will get a few sales in games but it’ll probably not do much good. 

[THX-1138]

1 hour ago, Atari_JaguarVCS said:

The beauty of the VCS is the ability to just use it as a PC it kinda reminds of back in the day when Sony allowed you to install Linux on the PS3 for a while lol.

PS2 did that, but in that case it was using a proprietary game console running a specialised Linux with support for the hardware. 

The VCS is a just a standard x86-64 PC, it just has a custom mainboard and case.  It's games are Linux PC games.  This is the major point that critics who keep shitting on the VCS miss, it's not a proprietary console.  It's also way more capable than just streaming or running retro stuff.  It's a PC and even without the price cuts, it's great value as you cannot buy a similar spec AMD mini PC for less.  When Atari end support it will be -NO- different to any other PC without active manufacturer support, which is probably over 95% of all PCs out there.  Just install another Linux, copy your games and carry on and/or Windows etc.  You can't do that with the 'consoles' that haters keep comparing it to -  and missing the whole freakin point.  The VCS is not in the gift of Atari to kill, it would take the end of the x86 PC architecture to kill the VCS.  It will keep on going, keep on running software way into the future.

[Atari_JaguarVCS]

11 minutes ago, THX-1138 said:

PS2 did that, but in that case it was using a proprietary game console running a specialised Linux with support for the hardware. 

The VCS is a just a standard x86-64 PC, it just has a custom mainboard and case.  It's games are Linux PC games.  This is the major point that critics who keep shitting on the VCS miss, it's not a proprietary console.  It's also way more capable than just streaming or running retro stuff.  It's a PC and even without the price cuts, it's great value as you cannot buy a similar spec AMD mini PC for less.  When Atari end support it will be -NO- different to any other PC without active manufacturer support, which is probably over 95% of all PCs out there.  Just install another Linux, copy your games and carry on and/or Windows etc.  You can't do that with the 'consoles' that haters keep comparing it to -  and missing the whole freakin point.  The VCS is not in the gift of Atari to kill, it would take the end of the x86 PC architecture to kill the VCS.  It will keep on going, keep on running software way into the future.

100 percent everything you just said here! The VCS seems to surprise a lot of developers to who have developed games for it or are currently developing games for it. I’ve seen a few awesome game developer interviews recently on the Discord channel for the VCS and all I’ve heard is praise from the developers about the hardware and it’s capabilities in the right hands and how easy it is to work with, if I recall one dev compared it to the Nintendo Switch but a bit more powerful and if you ask me the Switch has some of the most stunning looking games I’ve seen like Botw and Metroid etc it’s plenty powerful for what it needs to be, all the GPU horse power in the world doesn’t make for a good game so I think Atari spec’d the device perfectly and the build quality is up there with the current devices on the market, it’s a very well built machine it just seems to get so much hate from people that I don’t actually understand it. It’s great this thing exists and I’m glad Atari do mainly market it as a mini PC as that’s what it is. 

[zzip]

On 12/30/2022 at 5:37 PM, THX-1138 said:

The VCS is a just a standard x86-64 PC, it just has a custom mainboard and case.  It's games are Linux PC games.  This is the major point that critics who keep shitting on the VCS miss, it's not a proprietary console.  It's also way more capable than just streaming or running retro stuff.  It's a PC and even without the price cuts, it's great value as you cannot buy a similar spec AMD mini PC for less.

It's a console capable of running virtually any game or application written for any Atari computer,  console or arcade cabinet that existed before it,  in a case that's much more attractive than the old Atari PC line.  Also the first Atari console that can be called 64-bit without controversy

 

Yeah I get it,  there are other options to do the same thing, so it's not for everyone.    But I can't wrap my head around the criticisms that bash it because it isn't proprietary.  You'd rather have a piece of hardware that can only play the limited number of games released and beg people on the internet to make ports to it?   No thanks!

 

 

[Rodgie]

On 12/23/2022 at 4:33 PM, leech said:

Ha, my shirts showed up, wonder when my Speaker hat / 2nd VCS will show up.

Waiting for my Speaker Hat / VCS bundle to ship... did you get shipping/tracking information yet?

[leech]

13 hours ago, Rodgie said:

Waiting for my Speaker Hat / VCS bundle to ship... did you get shipping/tracking information yet?

Yeah, the tracking info showed the two shirts and the Speaker Hat bundle as one shipment.  Shirts showed up in a bubble wrap pouch, the Speaker Hat Bundle is no where to be found so far... Atari support emailed me this morning saying they were still trying to sort it out with their warehouse. 

[+MrZarniwoop]

Valentine's Day 2023 Red Flash Sale 20% Off today on Atari VCS and everything else on their website store.

[boog]

Off-topic, but has anyone bought a hoodie from the Atari store? Are they lightweight or heavier material?

[RollOut]

1 hour ago, boog said:

Off-topic, but has anyone bought a hoodie from the Atari store? Are they lightweight or heavier material?

I have the kanji hoodie. It's good material and kind of medium weight (it's neither my heaviest or lightest hoodie). I'm a fan