godslabrat

You just don't understand... Atari made this lump of shit, and they've been making lumps of shit for 40 years. The rest of the world is tired of lumps made by Nintendo and Sony, and it's time a real lump expert returned to the scene. Now pre-order your lump and wait four years for it to arrive.

Based on the clientele, they really should have tried to make a console and sold it as a paperweight.

It would also take roughly the same amount of hacking to make it play netflix

Agreed. I really don't think the VCS design is that interesting. But since the aesthetics are the least important thing, I don't much care.

I don't even think l'Atari knows. It's just a buzzphrase they can use for publicity. File it away with "blast processing" and "hybrid emulation".

Answer: Nothing that we can't already do with spare parts sitting in our homes right now. (If that's the discussion you want to have, it won't be a lengthy one.)

So you're making the case of "Compared to other boring things, it's less boring?" Am I getting that right? I think a key point is, people don't buy PCs to have fun, at least, not super-low-end ones, which is what the VcS is. People buy them for basic PC functionality, and frivolous cases or logos aren't likely to be a big draw. Sure, it'll sell 10-20k to nostalgic fans, but it won't be able to create a viable product line. On the other hand, people DO buy consoles to have fun, and it's been well established how the VCS is failing to be a console. The system is failing to do anything except maybe be a paperweight.

Aside from that, which is truly the Best Answer(TM), I would say: 1- Device is released, everyone who bought one gets it. 2- YouTube goes nuts for two weeks while every shill talks about how cool it is, and creates "hacking" videos that are indistinguishable from Raspberry Pi projects. 3- Atari almost immediately stops acknowledging the project, claims the shipped units are "a special gift for the true fans" or some garbage, and casts doubt that there will be a second run. 4- Five diehard fans continue to tinker with it endlessly. No one else cares. 5- A year later, Atari announces another cash grab. The cycle begins anew.

I love how the VCS can't even get watered-down mobile games.

Thanks. No quibble if you really want this thing, I hope you get it.

I'm kinda curious how difficult it would be to add support for a retrode and basically make a Polymega.

I contend that "no news is good news" is the Atari's ass-zipper moment

2020 strikes again.

The sooner l'Atari releases this thing, the sooner they can get on with pretending this whole mess never existed. You just know they're already thinking up their next scheme.

Pat and Ian, the guys who went out of their way to be neutral and fair to polymega, are calling it out now. TLDR, it's a mismanaged project that has outlived its relevance before it even got released.

You have to ask yourself, how much is the name worth? Like you said, a great modern game could be built off something like (to use one example) Asteroids. But if some talented dev goes and makes an amazing game about blowing up space rocks, does it really benefit them to brand it as Asteroids? At this point, the Asteroids name has so little cache that they might get more publicity just by having a cool game. These IPs have been lowered to the point where, between l'Atari and the devs, it's not clear who is doing who the favor.

I like long games. Since I don't buy many games, in theory a long game for me is great because it will take me a year or so to get through it. My problem begins when I GET the game, and it takes me an evening or two just to do all the setup and tutorial nonsense. If it's a 60-hour game, and the first 5 hours is handholding and infodump, then it's probably going to be a week or two until I'm actually having FUN with the game. That discourages me from trying new games often.

The herb cannot be legally hidden. If it's not on the label, it's not in the bottle. We've told you that, your pharmacist told you that, the Food and Drug Administration told you that. If, after all that, you still think Dragon Punch is the authority on the matter, there's no helping you.

"Guidelines for the labeling of inactive ingredients from the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP), which sets standards for medicine that are enforceable by the FDA, require manufacturers to disclose every single ingredient in all medications. So it's possible to learn whether something you need to avoid is lurking in your drugs." So if there are no "herbs" listed on it, there are no "herbs" in it. Unless you're thinking the FDA is in a conspiracy to wreck your video games.

I'm sorry, but I'm calling bullshit. Is this "herb" theory found anywhere except a website called "dragon punch"?

L'Atari will move on to their next cash grab. I don't think they'd even still be talking about the VCS if people weren't waiting for them and hounding them on social media.

I have no longing for Atari of old. Despite being on this forum, I am happy to leave it in the past. I just dislike people being sold literal garbage and being told it's something it's not. It's not a good console, it's not a good computer, it's debatable if it's even Atari and I'd make my case that it isn't. It's crap, so that's what I call it.

If l'Atari is actually producing these at all, and they seems to be, I think it's going to end up filling the thousands of pre-orders, with a modest number more for show. This would have the effect of not making the unit rare enough to be worth seeking, but also not common enough to catch on.

In short, it's the most visible example of the current trend of "retro-ish consoles that serve no actual purpose". It's also the latest project by the company currently calling itself "Atari" to raise money and deliver nothing of substance. It offers nothing to consumers, and anyone who's thrown money in its direction was lied to. The only variable is how much they care about being lied to.

"Herbs"