Atari VCS Has Pulled in Nearly $2.4 Million Dollars in Funding in Three Days!

[VAMatt]

thismeintiel said:

VAMatt said:

I think it next to nothing when it comes to the launch of a new console.  At best, it is a good start.  

Well, even if you give them the best outcome possible, and everyone is ordering the cheapest console SKU, that's just a little over 12K consoles sold. 

The reported number is "over 9000".  

In fairness, they don't need to sell millions of consoles at this stage of a crowdfunding campaign.  They just need to raise enough money to get handle whatever amount of design and R&D works remains, and to pay for some marketing.  In theory, that will lead to more people pre-ordering, and the thing will snowball into a successful release.  But, even so, 9000 people is nothing.  I'll be impressed if they get to ~$25 million and ~100k backers.