| tinfamous12 said: Lots of disrespect towards Atari in this thread, especially when they paved the way for the big three we love today imo. I will buy a new console from them in a heartbeat. I'd love for a fourth major league console in the industry. It's only good for gamers. |
why does Atari get all of the credit? why not Intellivision as well?
I don't think people lack respect for Atari, I like the 2600 fine for what it is, but it's naturally expected that the first real home console generation would have a lot of rough looking games and the lack of regulation at the time allowed for a load of shovelware to be sold in stores.
but you're mistaken in how you address it- Atari the console developer died in the mid 90s, the company that exists now mostly just uses the Atari trademark to make money and does little else. They are a tiny company and will not be releasing a contemporary console ever. This is almost certainly an NES Classic like move, even that I'm sort of doubtful of though given the micro size of the current 'Atari' branded company
(just for further use, the 'Atari' wiki shows some loose revenue figures for whatever the current 'Atari' branded company is for like 2014/15 and they're vastly too small to being doing anything except for some sort of retro initiative console. Even that I'm uncertain of, unless there is another company/party involved that is paying them to use the license) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari,_SA
