Atari VCS Preorder

**c0axial** · 30th May 2018

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Atari® returns to the living room with a retro-inspired, completely modern video computer system! New and classic games meet streaming media and a universe of web-powered entertainment on Atari’s first-ever connected home platform.

Atari VCS™ delivers unprecedented levels of flexibility and control that will help transform how we Interact with our TV’s, just as the original Atari 2600 did four decades ago.

Built on an open source Linux OS so you can add your own software and apps to customize your own platform.

A planned line of Atari VCS peripherals and accessories will let you build your own Game and Entertainment-Powered “Connected Home” experience.

**CominAtcha** · 31st May 2018

This and the recent [Only registered and activated users can see links. ] have got Ouya written all over them.

**Clownfish** · 1st June 2018

I'm right in saying this is the same VCS that failed to ship last year?
And that box was just an android spec stb for like £200.

The stench of failure is already wafting through this thread and the thing does't even ship until 2019.

**Mickey** · 1st June 2018

TBH do we really need yet another console on the block

**Clownfish** · 20th July 2018

A little update to this piece of vapourware from a Q&A which is linked below

Can you give more details or updates on the Atari VCS hardware specs? Any possibility you and the team might be considering and/or able to share news of any upgrades from the currently published hardware?The VCS hardware will be powered by an AMD Bristol Ridge family APU with Radeon R7 graphics and is now going to get 8 gigabytes of unified memory. This is a huge upgrade from what was originally specified and unlike other consoles it’s all available, we won’t reserve 25% of hardware resources for system use.

So it's morphed into a PC now.

Full Q&A
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My advice .... A fool and his money are easily parted.