Hum a little Everly Brothers with me ... "Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream"
No, seriously, I can't think that this rumor could possibly be true. It seems that everybody is jumping ship from the hardware business. Sega's already done and I hear tell that the GameCube may well be Nintendo's last console. Soon it'll likely just be Microsoft and Sony left to battle it out with everyone else providing software for the two giants. I'd be really surprised if Infogrames would even consider trying to go up against the big boys. They're doing pretty well with the Atari name for software sales, so why mess with a good thing?