I'm one of the old ones. I was a young adult when the (original) VCS came out, and completely changed my perception of what game machines were about. Change the cart, and hey! totally different game on the same hardware. Amazing!

Problem is those primitive games have not aged well at all. A few are still fun in small doses, but by and large, they are best left in a museum. I certainly would not buy a new iteration of the VCS that just plays Atari games from the late 70s through the mid-80s. I don't need one for passive entertainment either. Let's wait and see what it actually turns out to be.

I mean what does Xbox have to offer anyway in the category of games other than Halo and Gears. Those are the only games that move systems and they only care about the entertainment aspect of it all. So we wouldn't be really loosing anything with the departure of xbox

@link,

You should open your mind a little if you think Gears and Halo are the only games on Xbox. Forza is the top rated exclusive racing game and is available in two different series, Motorsport and Horizon. Sea of Thieves is kind of hard to miss right now and Crackdown 3 is on the way. Quantum Break and Recore were nice exclusives as well as State of Decay. I know some gamers can’t tell the difference between an RTS and a FPS, but Halo Wars was a fun game if you are one of the few that knows the difference.

Only members of an opposing faction would want that.

As to why? Who knows... Maybe they want something new to bash?

@Chris

"As to why? Who knows... Maybe they want something new to bash?"

Bashing on the XBox, while easy, is just beating a vert, very, very dead horse.. So yeah, I guess it would be nice to bash on a different console, because XBox is like the brother that nobody knows about because he's an abomination that lives in the attic.

you can‘t replace something that‘s not really existant.

That was not meant to be directed at you. I assumed it was part of Ataris press release since that is the section I was referencing. I have heard Atari spokes"people" say something akin to this multiple times and its starting to become laughable like the turd in school that tries to tell everyone he is the cool kid, the ones who have to tell you they are cool... arent the cool ones.

While Nintendo is certainly to thank for the industry taking off to the point it is at now, Atari forged the market. There were other consoles before them, but they were the first to make gaming a mainstream thing. They also were part of destroying the market when people realized it was something that could be cashed in on and the lack of quality control meant a flood of garbage games ended up on store shelves, some that were fundamentally broken. Nintendo then resurrected it a few years later.

That said, we all know who Atari is, they are to thank for putting the gaming console in average joe's living room. They can claim to be iconic. Press releases often spend a lot of time bragging about the company, so this isn't too far out of the norm. That said, I did find it funny that they had to spend an entire paragraph bragging about the graphic design used to promote the console and its games, while not revealing a single fact about what the console actually does.

I think that I might be one of the few that has never owned an Atari console before. However, I did play on my uncle's Atari Jaguar quite a bit in the 90s (not to mention Atari made arcade games). Anyways, I get what you mean ;)

I'd rather have a system from Atari Games(Midway, Warner Bros) instead of Atari Inc(Infogrames). Atari Games made all the good arcade games from the 80's & 90's like Gauntlet, Hard Drivin, Toobin, Hydra, 720, & APB. Atari Inc makes Rollercoaster Tycoon World, Pridefest, & Deer Hunter...ugh.

Yes, it really depends on software platform. If there is intereface, which I can download games from 8bit/16bit(mainly atari XE and ST) era (or also from jaguar era), its very nice piece of work. If this is only 2600 emulator + some sort of steambox, it doesnt really appeal to me (I already have Ps4,Ps3, 3ds, PC, so I dont need another pc in a box). But thumbs up for Atari!