Single board pc with the same cpu/gpu at the Atari VCS 80

[Rob Merritt]

There is now a single board pc running the same cpu/gpu combo as the Atari VCS 800. The Ryzen 1606G with Radeon Vega 3 graphics. It only supports 4 gigs of memory. Oh and it cost over $500. Something to remember when people mention that they think the VCS is overpriced. 

 

 

 

 

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38 minutes ago, Rob Merritt said:

There is now a single board pc running the same cpu/gpu combo as the Atari VCS 800. The Ryzen 1606G with Radeon Vega 3 graphics. It only supports 4 gigs of memory. Oh and it cost over $500. Something to remember when people mention that they think the VCS is overpriced. 

 

 

 

 

A lot of the price complaints were before the chip shortage.   It's gotten harder to find a comparable system at a much better price.

 

Also a lot of the criticism compared the bundle price ($399) instead of the standalone price ($299).   If the system it was being compared to didn't have a pair of $60 controllers then it wasn't really a fair comparison.    At the end you will likely pay more for the Atari name vs a generic system, but that's true of virtually any other product.