Can they pull it off?

Can they pull it off?

Hopefully.
If the leaked specs are anything to go by it's going to be a pretty good Xbone alternative. That is if it's going to have any games and 3rd party support.

>leaked specs
Huh?

What exactly is it again? I thought it was just gonna be one of those emulator things with some games on it. If it's a full fledged console, I'll support it. I haven't bought a next gen system yet and it would be nice to have something new into the mix.
I'm hoping it does well and they make enough money to make their own line of consoles again. Not sure if it'll be good to have a 4th competitor or not.

Doubt it but I'll meme it till the death.

It's not announced what it is exactly but all signs point towards built in Atari games and indie mobile stuff. Basically an Ouya.

>leaked specs

You better elaborate on this my guy.

what are the specs

tell us the specs

normies these days don't even know what an Atari console is/was. The next OUYA guaranteed

>leaked specs

(you) need to elaborate.

>Atari Ouya
the 2600 was fucking shit and people dealt with it because it was either that or the competition which was even worse. There's a handful of games that are even tolerable and even then they get boring after 5 minutes.

You're welcome for pulling the industry out of the dark ages

It will flop hard. Normies under the age of like fucking 40 have never played atari, under 20 they've never even heard of it.

>An atari ouya
Cmon, they can do better than that. Imagine if they made a bunch of retro games for the thing, maybe even some 3d shit.

Means nothing. Marketing can achieve anything. A good product can achieve anything.

I want it to succeed because the groovyposting memes are fantastic.

W O O D G R A I N
It can't fail.

Anyone have the webm link?

While at the same time literally putting it back in there. Daily reminder Nintendo tried to fuck over John Carmack our lord and fucking savior of the 90's golden era.

I forgot where I heard it from but it's talked to contain an 8 core cpu and a customized rx 580

This post made me happy.

It's going to fucking crowdfunded.

Ouya all over again.

>marketing can achieve anything.
Exactly, how the fuck can you market a console from a dead company to a demographic incredibly prone to brand loyalty. Why the fuck would timmy get an Atari when all his friends play on PS4/PC/XB1?

Sounds like a load of shit.

That shit is ugly though

user, you do know there's a daily limit to how much you can shitpost right? I hope you're not going about your quota.

All they've said is that it will support old games and new games. Anything else is speculation.

That would be impressive but hard to believe. Where would they even get the money?

>crowdfunded
Sorry boys but it already failed right out of the gate. I really wanted this to work.

with good games and a low price

>where would they even get the money
Crowdfunding

Cancer of the taste gland is a horrific disease. At least it's terminal so you won't suffer much longer.
F

>good games
There are zero good publishers who would put their game on it, are you actually retarded? All it will have is shovelware and maybe MAYBE indieshit.

There just isn't room for another competitor in the console market as long as Xbox PlayStation and Nintendo exist.

It can still be somewhat successful if they don't go with the android console approach and actually make a modern PC in a console form

>implying xbox still exists
microsoft is going back to pc

>there's no room in the market for Microsoft as long as Sony, Nintendo and Sega exist.
Not saying it will succeed but if it's a good enough product there will be room for it.

I sure am excited for the Infogrames Plug&PlayStation

Dude by the time the Xbox came out Sega was donezo.

>Can they pull it off?
nope, atari twouya

here's your (you)

But one of them had to die so the other could take its place.
If Atari is planning on being successful then one of the current players will have to go. By the looks of things it may be Microsoft since the Xbone's the worst selling console from this generation not counting the Wii U.

I hope they can, just for the memes.

Same generation. The announcement of the Xbox and the PS2s phenomenal launch success encouraged sega to pull the plug on the DC earlier.

ATARI IS BACK BABY!!!

Theres no unwritten rule that says there has to be three. If they make a proper console with great games there will be a market for it, thats all assuming its not a plug and play 2600.

hell that would make a nice steambox

>Digital Only
Nope

I would genuinely like to see a timeline where Xbox flops out of the market while Infogrames 'Atari' becomes a serious contender in the console industry.

>I forgot but its gotta be true cause i heard
fuck off with this shit retard. Like the kid in second grade that always said retarded shit and could never back up. But never grew up and now spreading autism all over the place.

thats my jam

(you)

Valve has been trying to make that work, and they're in a much better position with thousands of games ported already, and a bunch of big name developers on the payroll which has to be costing them a small fortune every year working on stuff like SDL, and Mesa that are really cool but won't make them money in any way other than indirectly if Steam Machines ever take off.

I give it a small chance that its a AMD64 based system it just doesn't seem very likely even with AMD's new Ryzen+Vega SOC hardware launching enabling small form factor console-style devices. Atari could piggy back off the work Valve has done so they wouldn't have to start from zero, but they don't seem to be doing the things they'd need to to make that work.

Far more likely it will be a quick and dirty ARM based Android/Linux device. Possibly with an Nvidia SOC with Nvidia doing the heavy lifting for them making the new Atari a lot like the Switch in essentially being a Shield device in disguise.

Microsoft had a direct hand in killing Sega's hardware business. Who do you think fired that missile at Sega headquarters?

if it looks anything like this I'll buy it. so mid century

>Valve has been trying to make that work
they stopped years ago

You're an idiot. It's cashing in on the NES Classic thing.

>business fucking over people

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you

They actually didn't, and they've been increasing their efforts now that 10 S has moved from the realm of "Gaben's crazy Microsoft would never do that" to "Oh shit, its really happening".

I know the Windows-centric media has been very quiet about it, but Valve has hired a bunch of very big name Linux devs and since most of the projects they're working on are open source gaming infrastructure stuff you can actually follow what they're working on.

Atari on the other hand hasn't been making those kind of big hires, or even contracting some of the freelance guys. You don't have Atari devs making commits to the Linux kernel, or the Mesa project like you would expect if they were seriously building an AMD based non-Windows gaming device.

So if we see another console style device built on a Ryzen+Vega SOC, its way more likely to be Valve's than Atari's.

its going to be running android isnt it

Probably, or another ARM/Linux stack.

whatever Sup Forums thinks atari is doing, they arent

theyre coming out with a "nes classic" thing. atari does not exist as a company that has any interest in doing R&D and competing with anyone, they exist to make money off the name

Sup Forums is full of naive children with big weird dreams

Yeah, this whole thing reeks of zero effort beyond the marketing. They can't even get real investors interested or bother to dedicate money themselves to making it work.

In fact, it all kind of feels like a viral marketing exercise to keep the Atari name in the news.

>they're coming out with a "nes classic" thing
Why would they do all this hype build up if it's just for something that they've done for years now with their Flashback lineup?

Don't they license that out to another company to produce?
An internal hardware project would potentially make them a lot more money.
Especially if they do a kickstarter, produce a few thousand units and then take the rest of the money and run.

so what's the point of this console, anyway?

if they're capitalizing on the NES/SNES Mini craze, then why the need for a spec that (apparently) can play modern games / catch up to modern systems (I am so unclear about this)?

and if they are trying to jump in the modern console market, what the hell have they got to offer? Sony jumped in between Sega & Nintendo offering the benefits of CD media & 3D at an affordable costs, and MS joined the fray with some good exclusives and robust online play (before both said fuck it this gen).

Brand recognition? the only thing Atari is known for now are failed consoles.

Low costs console? okay, sure, then what about the actual games? are there any eye catching exclusives from them? and in the weird chance there's major 3rd party support for multiplatform games, what's gonna convince an Xbone/PS4 owner to jump ship?

No shit. 80% of atari thread are people shitposting and having fun

Marketing?

This
Samsung has a better chance at making a successful console than Atari

Make a good reboot of this a launch title and I'll buy

>doesn't have the money to make a console with competitive hardware.
>doesn't have the money to market their console
>no brand loyalty from people younger than 30
>no physical media (based on what we've seen from the console)
>focused on pushing LGBT nonsense
>no first party studios to make games for them
>no money to secure AAA third party exclusives
>console has no vents so it'll be weak or overheat
Atari has NO chance.
But I'd love them to succeed, don't get me wrong.

I'd say their best bet is going for a low cost "indy" console
Cheap, easy development, simple online distribution store stuff. Sell the console for 150-200$, commission a launch lineup of original games from the guys that made Shovel Knight, Super Meat Boy, Darkest Dungeon etc.

Market it as "Making videogames fun again"
I'd buy it.

>focused on pushing LGBT nonsense

>Can they pull off the next OUYA
Probably.

>8 core cpu and a customized rx 580
So, an XBoneX level Steambox?

From their wikipedia page
>On June 22, 2014, Atari announced a new corporate strategy that would include a focus on "new audiences", specifically "LGBT, social casinos, real-money gambling, and YouTube".[49]
And pic related

Reminder that modern "Atari" is actually just Infogrames under a different label and has no connection to the original Atari other than the fact they own the name.

Now that's what I call a desperate move for attention

Wasn't that what the Ouya was?

Its so /fa/.