New Atari 2600 is coming in November
New Atari 2600 is coming in November
The Atari 2600–the console that shook the world in the late 70s and early 80s–is back, courtesy of a hardware partnership with PLAION.
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Very cool idea, but $129 is kind of pricey considering we're talking 1980s technology.
Emulation is free
Yeah but when you can play any game for free none of them are as interesting.
Yeah, that price tag is kind of bugging me, especially after the NES Classic, SNES Classic, and Playstation Classic were all $100 or less and had more built-in games. The ability to play 7800 and 2600 carts is cool, though.
I think the ability to play carts is part of why this is over $100, that takes a lot more hardware than just an emulation box does.
1970s technology actually
I think they're going for the Analogue market. Real hardware for real cartridges, built to modern standards (like HDMI).
Two problems:
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Analogue consoles are all FPGA. This isn't. It's more like the Hyperkin consoles from that perspective.
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I'm not sure how much demand (read: nostalgia) there is for these older consoles these days. At retro game conventions I haven't seen much. It's mostly NES and later.
Atari probably could have won over some of that market if they used an FPGA, but they've gotten this wrong again and again by contracting with companies who put an emulator on a SOC in a box.
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It does hit as pricy at first, but I don't think it's unreasonable given what they're doing here and what (I'm sure) BOM costs are right now.
It should be $20