toiletunes Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 April is here, and we await the Ataricorpboxvcs announcement. We can afford to wait, there are other options... 28 days, Atari. Tick, tock. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 28 days, Atari. Tick, tock. Yeah, no. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Such negativity. All they have to do this month is announce a pre-order date. They don't actually have to use that pre-order date for taking pre-orders. First, they announce a date. Then they miss it. Baby steps. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 NBH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoRacer Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I'm looking forward to which excuse they'll use to delay the release date. I think we need to make a spinnable wheel full of standard excuses and see who can spin to win, so to speak, by getting the excuse they inevitably use. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osgeld Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 STUUUUUUUUPIIIIID! YOOOOU'RE SOOOOO STUUUUUUPID!!!!!!! -Thom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racerx Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Nintendo also makes money with the hardware. Atari will have a shop and will surely keep the usual 30%. Did you also email the CEO of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo? Welcome, Latest New Guy Posting Exclusively For The Ataribox. As your other three examples are actual, Fortune 500 companies with more than a couple dozen employees, no... he likely did not. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 FWIW, Jeff Minter mentioned he stopped by this thread, and walked away because it devolved into "an insane discussion about tacos, or something." I would seriously consider this a badge of honor for those in this thread, somehow, you've out-weirded Yak. -Thom 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bojay1997 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 (Emphasis above is mine; wanted to keep as much of the original quote as possible for context.) Online delivery of software is not free by any stretch of the imagination. The data has to be housed somewhere. In a modern context, that means multiple geographically-distributed datacentres, each sucking down power and occupying land. Bandwidth isn't free, either: the various carriers providing it each want their cut, and charge each other for traffic ingressing and egressing their networks. Then there's the back- and front-end infrastructure that has to be built so that an end user can click 'buy' and start the whole process, as well as the internal and customer-facing support processes that make sure that the buy button actually works. There's a lot more to it than that, but saying that online content delivery is free is absolutely incorrect. I wouldn't spend too much time parsing what this guy says. He's the same guy who got upset when several of us pointed out that he didn't invent Internet video game reviews or in-store video reviews. In any event, the fact that Atari didn't respond to him about his desire to develop games for their non-existent platform probably reflects well on their judgment if nothing else. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 My guess is the reason you never hear them talk about games or developers, is that they are planning to use existing content...That plus maybe Roller Coaster Tycoon and some Atari Flashback type titles... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tschak909 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 1. Build Ataribox 2. ??? 3. PROFIT! ...they're still stuck on step 1. -Thom 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetick1 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 My guess is the reason you never hear them talk about games or developers, is that they are planning to use existing content...That plus maybe Roller Coaster Tycoon and some Atari Flashback type titles... Well that's a given and also HOW could one plan to line up developers without a HDK nor even a SDK ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 1. Build Ataribox 2. ??? 3. PROFIT! ...they're still stuck on step 1. -Thom I'd say... 1. ??? 2. "build" Ataribocs 3. Assume profit And they're stuck on step 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thetick1 Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 1. Build Ataribox 2. ??? 3. PROFIT! ...they're still stuck on step 1. -Thom "Watch out for that first step Mac, it's a lulu!" http://bugsbunnypage.tripod.com/wavs/1ststep.wav 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 The next product by Atari SA™ ® will be the Speakertoupée ™ speaker_toupee.jpg UNLIKE when notAtari tries to ruin one of my favorite things, the Real® Atari VCS®, I like that you reminded me of another of my favorite things, the Flight of the Conchords. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Atari SA's stock price totally looks like one of my favorite games, Alto's Odyssey. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoRacer Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Guys... guys.... I got it. I have THE idea they need to make this work for Atari. So, if they put the system in an Atari Jaguar shell, and then..... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_convoy Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Atari SA's stock price totally looks like one of my favorite games, Alto's Odyssey. atari stock price.png didyouknow.png Atari to rename themselves as ATARI Blockchain Cryptosystems iminently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoRacer Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Hindsight is a bitch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Atari to rename themselves as ATARI Blockchain Cryptosystems iminently If they hurry, they could merge with Floyd Mayweather's crypto thing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad-Mike Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 Atari to rename themselves as ATARI Blockchain Cryptosystems iminently Actually, needs to be a picture of the BMX race from California Games with the guy crashing and the little pixels (birdies) floating around his head. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 I kid you not, I saw at Goodwill the other day about 10 sealed Roller Coaster Tycoons (1 or 2) games for around $.99 each. They also had sealed copies of Backyard Baseball sealed too. So I'm guessing those who actually BUY the AtariVCSBOXwhatever (if it ever comes out but we know better) are going to be disappointed in the fact they have games under a dollar installed in their boxthingyfromnotATARI. And I'm guessing their new technology chip is actually a recordable tape player with TDK tapes that break when they rewind back to the beginning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacman000 Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 That's too bad RCT is a good game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+x=usr(1536) Posted April 4, 2018 Share Posted April 4, 2018 This is all well and good, but that 'really difficult post to write' isn't going to write itself. Atariboxcorp, you know what to do. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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