How many delays can one product have before everyone just gives up on it? The Atari VCS seems to be testing that question as it faces yet another delay.
Missing its launch date of March 2020, even though it already took your money on several occasions, the Atari VCS release is finally around the corner. Well, allegedly around the corner.
The console, which is still taking pre-orders, is now scheduled for a release sometime this fall, at the same time it is available to retailers. That is another great big “fuck you” to those that helped fund the project.
Oh, and as far as I can find only a single game has been announced to be launching alongside the console, and that game (Missile Command: Recharged) is already out on a bunch of current platforms including mobiles leading many to see the Atari VCS as the next Ouya.
What’s even worse is that comments are turned off on the newly released trailer for the game, almost as if the team was expecting a torrent of negative comments for a mobile game releasing at launch on its $400 console.
Raise your hand if you expect dozens of YouTube videos of regular schmucks like myself picking up a console in a store and reviewing it before most backers even get the consoles that they paid up-front for? I don’t know about you but that’s a pretty safe bet.
“Missile Command: Recharged is coming home to the Atari VCS where it belongs! It’s the perfect game to help kick-start our growing game and content library thanks to its retro roots and pulse-pounding gameplay that appeals to today’s gamers,” said Michael Arzt, COO of Atari VCS & Connected Devices.
As you might imagine, the Atari VCS doesn’t pay our advertising bills and considering the growing blacklist we’ve got placed on for calling out bullshit, we aren’t looking forward to the console.
We aren’t even against the idea of an Atari console, only how terribly this project has been run and the disgusting $400 bundle price during the same window where the PS5 and Xbox Series X both are releasing. It’s like they want this thing to be dead on arrival.
Made even worse is that we don’t a full spec sheet on the console even after we passed the original release date. Well, not the original original release date, but you get what I mean. Hell, even with this new announcement we don’t have a hard release date which is ridiculous.
Some people are still defending the console by suggesting its more a PC than a console. That’s idiotic because then it defeats the purpose of making a console. If I want a PC ill buy/build one that will last longer than this thing for roughly the same price.
But if that is the case you can expect a nice pseudo-pc for a great deal when this thing goes on sale as the same pace the Ouya did.
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