More info on the new Atari gaming system

[AG1233]

I feel like 300$ might be a steep price for the machine but only time will tell if its worth the price tag.

[suicidalfranco]

4 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

 

will depend on if i can run steam in home streaming on it and if it comes with a good controller

[Master Disaster]

19 minutes ago, suicidalfranco said:

will depend on if i can run steam in home streaming on it and if it comes with a good controller

If it's running Linux then Moonlight.

[Drak3]

5 hours ago, Misanthrope said:

remember a few years ago when Valve almost convinced the world that Linux could work as a console OS.

I must have been asleep for that. I only remember SteamOS and Steamboxes being the vaporware that came up too short, too late, that relatively few people had faith in over other consoles.

[Misanthrope]

3 hours ago, Drak3 said:

I must have been asleep for that. I only remember SteamOS and Steamboxes being the vaporware that came up too short, too late, that relatively few people had faith in over other consoles.

It did became all that but for what Linux gaming support was before SteamOS was announced it exponentially expanded it by orders of magnitude. It's just that it wasn't enough without the driver support and for the reason you allude to, Valve-time, they squandered a decent initial push (but again, decent by the pathetic state of Linux gaming back then)

[pas008]

Isn't vulkan going to be able to run on this?

[Coaxialgamer]

Reality check. 

It's just a concept. There's no actual hardware, and atari hasn't even got the funds yet. They're hyping it up. 

 

Thing is, it takes a lot of money to sell a cutting edge console. Money that Microsoft, sony and Nintendo might have, but not atari. 

 

They might be able to make a cheap arm box or the like. 

This is just an idea of what could be. Fact is, they have no capital, no funding and no hardware, and it's going to be crowdfunded. They're making promises they can't keep. 

I'll be convinced when i see it in front of me, but for now it looks like the ouya all over again. 

 

 

 

[NumLock21]

Can get these Atari for way less.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Flashback-Classic-System-Games-2600/dp/B0111WVWHA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506562466&sr=8-2&keywords=atari

https://www.amazon.com/Atari-Flashback-Deluxe-Special-Games-2600/dp/B01N07VE70/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506562466&sr=8-1&keywords=atari

[Sniperfox47]

19 hours ago, JAKEBAB said:

under $300? Are they kidding? I can get an Xbone S for $299 AUD. They completely lost me, would have bought in a heart beat at around $100- $150 with lower specs.

Yeah, but Microsoft can also afford to bleed money on every console they sell since they pick it up in licensing fees, accessories, and games.

 

An ARM machine would be cheaper but would also cut down the functionality of the device incredibly. For example, no Steam In-Home streaming, or retro PC games.

 

The market of people who want a tiny box to just play Atari games on is a far more niche market than the people who want a small x86 Linux box. I'm not even an Atari fan and I'd love to get my hands on one of these if the processor is decent.

 

16 hours ago, Terryv said:

Since it's open source I wonder if they'll make the OS available for download (or at least the software components needed to buy and download their games) I'd make my own custom Atari box.

GPL requires them to release their kernel, so between that and the ability to just rip their app from it by the guts, it shouldn't be too hard to run it with whatever distro you want.

 

8 hours ago, suicidalfranco said:

will depend on if i can run steam in home streaming on it and if it comes with a good controller

Since it's x86 Linux, you can get Steam running, and therefore In-Home streaming.

 

2 hours ago, Coaxialgamer said:

Reality check. 

It's just a concept. There's no actual hardware, and atari hasn't even got the funds yet. They're hyping it up. 

 

Thing is, it takes a lot of money to sell a cutting edge console. Money that Microsoft, sony and Nintendo might have, but not atari. 

 

They might be able to make a cheap arm box or the like. 

This is just an idea of what could be. Fact is, they have no capital, no funding and no hardware, and it's going to be crowdfunded. They're making promises they can't keep. 

I'll be convinced when i see it in front of me, but for now it looks like the ouya all over again. 

When did they say this is a cutting edge console? This likely has the same APU design as most other systems on the market.

 

Where do you get that they have no hardware and are crowdfunding the whole thing? They explicitly stated that the indiegogo campaign is just a pre-order drive.

 

What promises are they making? That it's a Linux machine running an emulator with old Atari games running on an AMD APU? How is that a particularly hard promise to keep?

[suicidalfranco]

3 hours ago, Sniperfox47 said:

Since it's x86 Linux, you can get Steam running, and therefore In-Home streaming.

then let us pray that the custom AMD chip they're talking about doesn't come with drivers issues when running Steam