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  3. Posted

    6 minutes ago, LoonyLucas said:

    If you didnt do either, you sure seem to care a lot about what other people decide what to do with their money.

    Cendejas, I don't care if someone simply lights their money on fire. It's theirs.

     

    Tacos and fun aside, the question we've posed from the very initial announcement of the Ataribox was how a company the size of the current Atari planned to design, develop, release, and support a console of any marketplace relevance. We posed it here, we posed it on the Atari and Atari VCS Facebook pages, and we posed it on their Twitter and Reddit feeds. We never got an answer, but we were labeled haters and trolls and generally banned for daring to ask.

     

    We're now seeing the obvious answer to that question. I'm glad it's worked out for you, but it's not remotely what was pitched at the beginning. No, I didn't back it, but I'll bet plenty who did are wishing they'd listened to the haters and trolls.

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  4. Posted

    37 minutes ago, LoonyLucas said:

    I actually agree with this.  But obviously that's what Atari is deciding to do, so that's on them.

     

    Personally I don't care.  I dont need game footage.  I didnt back the VCS for triple A titles.  When it gets released, I'll get mine, its gonna fit my gaming setup nicely and I'll be stoked to play with.    I already know how I plan on using mine.

    Is this gonna be the hill the most rabid backers have chosen to die on?

     

    "Yes, it's looking like the VCS is going to be every bit the marketplace failure everyone predicted, but it fits my needs and I'm still stoked?"

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  5. Posted

    5 hours ago, LoonyLucas said:

    Aside from the Twitter person, there's actually been a couple people who have posted pics on Instagram that also got one of those early units, so there isn't only "one" person who got their hands on a one.

     

    Just sayin.

    We know three people have them...CJ Melendez and Mario Kroll of UberStrategist, and Shelly Murphy, who apparently got one because she's trying to develop the Atari hotels and whose kid posted a pic on Twitter.

     

    The two PR flacks couldn't wait to put theirs through their paces that first weekend, and then we never heard about them again.

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  6. Posted

    2 hours ago, TACODON said:

    @Chopsus the IGG page is like the wild west again. I suppose the intern is off break and back to school...

    I used to check that page out every now and again, but good grief. Most of the people still posting there seem to have enjoyed a healthy appetite for paint chips as kids.

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  7. Posted

    8 hours ago, zzip said:

    Superfans AND Supercritics.  (Supercritics who call it a complete failure because it obviously won't compete against the big 3)

     

    I wonder what kind of sales numbers Atari is projecting for it?

    I call it an absolute failure because at least to me, it's an absolutely redundant piece of hardware. There's nothing it does that I can't already do, which is the yardstick by which I buy new hardware.

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, AlecRob said:

    Imagine if sega announced a new console and sega fans bitched about it like atari fans today are bitching about the VCS. That would be unthinkable!  Sega fans have been asking for a console for years, and i have no doubt they would snatch up whatever they put out without a second thought...even if it was a console-shaped PC like the VCS.     

    I'd imagine if Sega released an underpowered pc in a vaguely Genesis shaped case that focused on middling streaming services and crypto without displaying any advanced, exclusive versions of classic properties weeks before shipping, Sega fans would be bitching, too.

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  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, Matt_B said:

    Yeah, they're like one of those Chinese car companies that bought a defunct marque from twenty years ago so they can sell to befuddled old brand loyalists.

    Change "Chinese car companies" to "French software publishers" and that's literally what happened.

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  10. Posted

    21 minutes ago, zzip said:

    Add in memory, storage and game controllers and you are in the same price range.

    Let's face it...the VCS is going to need more storage at the bare minimum as well, and more memory should be on the shopping list, too.

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  13. Posted

    At this point, the unhinged fans/investors are an even more entertaining spectacle than the VCS train wreck itself.

     

    The part where Dubs wonders if he's been shadow banned because so much of his content has been deleted is especially poignant.  😂

     

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  16. Posted

    7 hours ago, CPUWIZ said:

    Which is puzzling, because if you come out with a strong console and major software support, their stock should be a lot bigger now.

    Even more damning, their one year return has been hovering around -30%. Investors are obviously less confident now than they were a year ago.

     

    Unless you snapped up a bunch when it tanked a couple of months ago to .17, you're going to have a lot of ground to make up if you've held the stock for a while.

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  17. Posted

    27 minutes ago, TACODON said:

    How much is it to finance my VCS? I heading to my Credit Union to find out!

    They're partnering with Klarna.

     

    A sleazy "videogame company" partnering with and even sleazier credit/financing company.

     

    I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.

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  19. Posted

    From a pure production standpoint, it would cost a hell of a lot more to print specific 400/800/Onyx/Walnut/Collector's/whatever boxes, like this appears to be.

     

    That's the kind of stuff usually relegated to an endflap sticker, especially by a tiny company like Atari.

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  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, MarioMan88 said:

    Nintendo has the gold standard of IP...Mario, Zelda, Pokémon, Animal Crossing, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong...and the list goes on and on. 
     

    Atari has Asteroid and other old IP’s they can’t even spell right. This argument is laughable.

     

    People have been clamoring for the next installments of 3-D Tic Tac Toe and Surround for decades.

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  21. Posted · Edited by racerx

    13 minutes ago, Tidus79001 said:

     

    Not championing either console over the other perhaps you missed the part in my post I where said the following...

     

     

     

    And perhaps you missed my entire post.

     

    One company is historically, demonstrably, a piece of shit. The other, at least to this point, doesn't appear to be.

     

    I'm not having wet dreams about either of these consoles, but your touting of Atari's transparency over this three year process is laughable. This is why you get laughed at. Spend your money how you want. Enjoy your VCS. But spare us your martyrdom tears around here.

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  22. Posted · Edited by racerx

    54 minutes ago, Tidus79001 said:

    Intellivision can put out cornball videos each week that have no value at all towards informing us as to the production status of the Amico console, and you guys have wet dreams over that project, but when Atari on a regular basis is giving detailed production updates, news about partnerships and content on the upcoming Atari VCS you crap all over them saying there is no transparency to the how the project is being conducted.

     

    Wow.

     

    I don't care one way or the other about the Amico. As a Day 1 backer of the VCS though, did you not see the 11 month span where they completely abandoned their Facebook page? That was likely while they were switching PR companies from the ineffective Rain Factory to the equally ineffective UberStrategist. They routinely broke Indiegogo's update frequency rules, and also routinely skirted them with useless "updates" like potential front applique treatments or virtually identical updates spread over two posts a month apart. As far as I know, Tallarico doesn't have a history of deleting posts or banning users for nothing more than inconvenient questions. Tallarico doesn't have a history of non-payment of developers and contractors stretching back far before Fergal Mac or Rob Wyatt. Tallarico doesn't have a history of faking gameplay and quietly adding a disclaimer afterward. The Amico has had a vision from its initial announcement that hasn't wavered in the face of developer disinterest.

     

    Get down off your cross. I have no interest in either machine, but if you want to champion a POS organization like Chesnais' "Atari," don't have the temerity to feign indignation at the reactions from those of us who know these guys.

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  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, Agillig said:

    The only thing that looks mildly interesting to me is Antstream.   Most people have other ways to play these games, but if the service was released on Xbox and the price was right, I'd give it a shot.

     

    Good news

     

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    8 minutes ago, Agillig said:

    Atari's behavior has had an aura of impropriety the entire time.  Maybe they aren't actually crooks, but are just really incompetent

     

     

    Except for their extended history of non-payment to contractors and vendors, as well as abandonware releases.

     

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    9 minutes ago, Agillig said:

    Yeah, he was a bit high strung.  Not sure if it was ban hammer worthy, especially since he provided some discussion as opposed to taco talk.

     

     

    Yeah, I'd just as soon keep a few of these types aboard. Nothing highlights the complete disconnect from reality of the truly fanatical backer like the old chestnuts of "You're not a fan! You weren't there! Atari WAS gaming! Atari's back!"

     

    They aren't seeing the pros and cons of a product. They're defending a religion.

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  25. Posted · Edited by racerx

    2 minutes ago, Iron-Marine Soldier said:


    Ooohhhh...so cool. 

     

    I don't understand your perverse fetish with being wrong, F1JV, but you're as obnoxious here as you are elsewhere.

     

    I've found it helps if I read your posts in William Shatner's voice, though.

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