The (somehow) still existing Atari has announced that its previous teaser (that numerous individuals may have glossed over) is in fact announcing a new console, possibly earning favor with the oldest of gamers who actually remember the ancient wooden consoles back in the old days.
Atari CEO Fred Chesnais confirmed this news in a special interview stating “We’re back in the hardware business” and that the console would be based on “PC technology”, a vague declaration that has naturally spawned various theories attempting to deduce its significance.
The announcement video:
Due to the name of the YouTube channel for the announcement video and the teaser website on which the video can also be seen, many believe that this new console may be called the “Ataribox”, though there has been no official confirmation on this.
Unfortunately, little else was revealed about this console and some are having doubts about whether it will be able to compete with other consoles on the market, let alone emulators – although the success of Nintendo in recycling its old consoles may indicate otherwise…
If they want to make a system to run PC games it will have to be pretty cheap compared to the other consoles too. So it would have to be cheaper than the ps4 and Xbox one, and possibly the switch(although the switch is a joke I it’s own right) and cheaper than a PC that could run these games. If they can do that then they may actually have a chance but it’s pretty unlikely they will be able to make a console under 300 dollars…
There are some crazy spanish guys making a portable steam machine under 350 bucks, so it’s actually quite possible…
Atari needs to die, i hope their new system fails so we can finally get rid of this ancient relic of a company
Well…what could you expect of something built from wood and stone?
It biodegrades nicely tho.
Well of course Atari is still around! You could clearly see their logo on the side of a building in Blade Runner, so that proved they’d last until at least 2019. Now if you’ll excuse me I must go on some errands in my flying car.
Great, yet another console with no decent games. f♥♥k games man, let’s just keep making new platforms. That’ll sell real fucking well.
what?