What is the new Atari console?

[JRPGfan]

mountaindewslave said:

JRPGfan said:

This will probably be better than that, it wont be a phone chip.

My thinking is its a tablet chip, kinda akin to the Nintendo Switch.

Power probably somewhere in the same ballpark.

Whats really questionable is what kinda games it ll play though. Which is really much more important than power.

no, it probably will be very similar to the Ouya in power. This is a company with a couple million in revenue yearly- they have no means to develop a unique piece of hardware. It's going to be something simple and not at all proprietary

Note: the way you also often know something like this is BS is when a company uses a somewhat legendary name (like Atari) and then says they'll be doing crowdfunding

this is not even at the level of the Ouya in terms of realistic projection because at least the Ouya had as somewhat clever idea of targeting indie gaming on the TV (even if it failed). This is more NES Classic than it is Ouya. I don't see the reason indie devs would even bother, they would get like 1/100 the audience on a device like this compared with what they'll already get on the PC or an established console

As someone else suggested, this appears like an attempt at a cash in through nostalgia and anyone hoping there are some big hidden plans for the device aren't being realistic because there is zero possibility of that. I expect we'll be seeing a lot of attempts at NES Classic like nostalgia cash ins the next few years, mainly from small companies who simply control somewhat revered gaming names

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-custom-tegra-processor-inside-switch-outed-as-standard-tegra-x1

"Standard Tegra X1 'confirmed' as Switch's processor"

So they could use the exact same chip (without any propriety technology added) and be equally good to the switch.

Even if they didnt/couldnt get that chip, there are other tablet chips they could get in the same "ball park"

But maybe your right, and they go for a lower priced console, and then it just ends up as a Ouya 2.