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Apparently your missing one thing. The Atari VCS by default has the largest game library in gaming history, because it can play all Linux and Windows games.
Keep in mind this Atari is not the Atari that made the Jagar. There are like five different Ataris and they all have had horrible business practices, financial failures, or both.
The Ouya wasn't really a scam though. It delivered on what they promised: a cheap Android box for your TV. It just didn't live up to the hype it had generated. The VCS, on the other hand, is a massive obvious scam.
I mean, I wouldn't say that the ouya delivered on everythingit promised. E.g. free trail on all games was dropped. Everything else was issues with some sloppy design, the controller was notoriously cheap and shit. Not enough good games since it was literally an android box. And some contradictory ideas. E..g it was meant to good for Indies and easily developable. But that meant the device was easily modable, meaning it had little to no security. So why would you develop games for it if your game can easily be cracked on the system?
I don't like the console either, but AVGN and Cinemassacre have become so mediocre after that AVGN Movie that you have no idea. Anyone who remembers the 480p/Young James era Cinemassacre knows exactly what I'm talking about.
This makes the 3DO console look like a best seller Despite a highly promoted launch (including being named Time magazine's "1993 Product of the Year") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price and an oversaturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to veteran competitors Sega and Nintendo As a result, it was discontinued in late 1996
They were American, what do you expect? All massive American Corporations from the past are nothing but a shell of its former glory, remember RCA? Yeah exactly, IBM? Same story. There only like a handful left like Apple and Microsoft and even they are starting to crumble.
Remember the atari that held a competition where the prize was a real fucking sword with gold and rubies and shit? Yes that atari died, but we remember it in a good way.
originalscreenname44 the first two prizes which were a chalice and and a crown were given out. The others, including a philosopher’s stone and the sword were returned to the Franklin Mint where they were made and melted down in order to recover the gemstones that were added into the prizes. It’s more mundane, but that’s what happened.
I lay the ground work, you beauties Google what I was too tired to do haha. All my brain could muster was the sword, I think I remember seeing an image of whoever bought atari with the sword in his room, maybe why I only rembered that.
I'd give it to Soulja Boy. It was hilarious watching an irrelevant rapper with one hit song trying to break into the games industry with that shit. This is just sad because of how iconic Atari used to be.
These companies are racking their brains trying to find ways to make money, when what they really need to do is just make a good product that speaks for itself.
@@snaynation Not true at all. Playing the hype game or doing just about any other effective marketing can be just as profitable as making a good product. People in general just aren't that discerning with what they spend their money on. Many good products are unknown and unsuccessful, because many creative people are not good at marketing or any of the business side of things. Look at all the garbage on Steam, early access or not, that people still buy. Look at the scourge that is 'crowdfunded game development' (be an adult and take out a loan like everyone else if you can't fund the thing you want to do, like buying a house or car). Maybe some of the devs now have a bad reputation from doing these things, but so what? They don't have a bad reputation with their bank manager, and that's what we're talking about: making money.
@@othertalk3313 You probably do the same line of work as these "Atari" guys do. When you see people going for Chevrolet instead of Mercedes, which is what this pos is trying to do (considering it costs as much as PS 4), you might see them succeed. You might see some unicorns grazing too while youre at it.
@@Qlicky But there's truth in what he's saying. Marketing is very effective of selling games and, on average, accounts for more than 50% of a AAA game's budget. You have to realise that gaming is a money making venture for the suits and not a hobby that's supposed to make you all fuzzy and warm inside. Good products don't necessarily sell as well as products that had better advertising or a prettier finish. The actual quality of a game doesn't matter nearly as much as the marketing does. I'm incredibly salty about it too but there's no way around it. Have you noticed that in pretty much any videogame there are only 5 ways to interact with the game and advance the game state? Press "use" on something (press F to pay respects), stand in a specific place, kill all enemies in the arena, kill a specific enemy in the arena, and timers/counters. Everything in modern games is built by mixing and matching those triggers, and it has been this way since fucking Half Life. But why bother improving that when you can make fancier graphics with photogrammetry and ray-tracing and whatnot? On average, prettier graphics will sell the game way better than any actually good and innovative mechanics. If your goal is making money, it is far more efficient to spend your existing money on marketing and graphics than on anything else. When you get let's say 500 million from your investors, your first thought is not that you can make an awesome game with that money, but that you need to sell enough shit to make a good return on those 500 million in a negotiated time frame. Which means that your game has to sell millions of copies and lootboxes. Which means your game needs to appeal to the mass market instead of niche audiences and pursue "engagement" for online portions or projects. Which means that you have to allocate resources into graphics instead of gameplay. Which means you will most likely end up with a common action or action-adventure game with fancy trailers and filled with expensive setpieces and pointless season passes. A "good product that speaks for itself" is very hard to make and inherently a very risky investment, and for every one that succeeded there were countless failed investments which either failed to deliver or simply got buried in the sheer volume of games being released nowadays.
@Agent 005 Sure. When I say: "It takes money to make money" that is also correct, no? So, how come loads of people went bust when its such an easy concept to grasp? By that logic, you just need to invest in marketing, have a decent idea and youll be swimming in cash. It is very easy to talk about stuff, a lot harder to pull it off.
On a side note, calling the OUYA a scam is really unfair, even more so when comparing to Atari VCS. OUYA was made by a small company, tried a new idea (which, true, didn't work out, but hindsight is 20/20 after all), had an active developer community, had active support, had a bunch of games which launched on the platform, and most importantly cost something like $99. Yes mistakes were made and the platform failed, but it was a genuine attempt at launching a console.
The fact that they said you can upgrade the RAM or *install your own operating system* was a huge red flag and immediately tipped me off that this was just an underpowered PC. When the developers stated that they weren't making a version for VCS and that all their featured games are already on Steam cinched it.
It's basically like the C64x that came out a few years ago by this shady company called "Commodore USA" who at that time held the Commodore brand license.. They too released overpriced underpowered hardware (basically netbook or entry-level laptop hardware) in brand new C64 and Amiga cases. It didn't last for long though till it collapsed and now their website is scrubbed.
That’s not emulated Windows. That’s literally just Windows 10 installed on this machine. I have an SBC on my desk with the exact same specs as the VCS running Windows 10.
@@madwolf0966 In the voice(and character) of The Vulture from Brooklyn 99: "The 'y' makes it cooler, like how racing stripes make your car go faster. Or maybe you just can't appreciate dope spellings." LoL, I love how they made him friends with the guy who scammed everyone with that disaster XD
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Holy shit it's already been 5 years? I remember watching YongYea do the 30 day lore thing before MGS 5 was about to come out like it was yesterday. Holy crap
I subscribed to his channel originally due to his Skyrim movies. Would definitely love to see a final conclusion to the series. I hope he doesn't go full Valve and stops knowing how to count to 3
I've owned the Atari Vault for years and recognized it right away. Fun fact: it replace an earlier "Atari 50 Games In One" or something like that package that got pulled because it never worked. And no, Steam never gave us refunds
This whole situation makes me almost wish we could legally force them to give up the Atari brand to someone more worthy... unfortunately current law lacks such options...
@ Bro what the hell? It's literally just a name. You have to be kidding, this is the most consumerist stuff ever, worshiping a brand, and you're somehow tying it to socialism. Imagine actually thinking that your worship of the name "Atari" is a good defense of socialism. "every time a country expropiated a brand or enterprise a large amount of people benefited out of it" - EVERY time? I seem to remember you people killed millions doing that stuff.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD lol "When people die under socialism it is because of socialism. When people die under capitalism it's because they deserved it." Really not looking forward to that invasion of Iran. But yeah, video games aren't a need and there's nothing special about brands. Make your own Atari style games however you want - it's not like the means of production aren't open and free. The internet is literally communist, after all. Stuff like VVVVVV very much revives the feeling of the 2600. Hell, the 2600 aesthetic is the easiest to replicate since you don't even need MUSIC - one person is more than enough. I do understand being jelly about the power of advertising it gives them, though. We literally wouldn't even know or care that this AVCS thing existed if they didn't own a trademark. This thing has less value to humanity than some bad 8 page long webnovel an 11 year old kid wrote and then gave up on over a weekend - by virtue of it not being a scam. The envy is very reasonable.
@@BMoser-bv6kn "When people die under capitalism it's because they deserved it" - Either post the quote where I said anyone deserved to die or admit you're a liar.
You could literally buy a dead Atari put in a Raspberry Pi Linux based emulation rig, buy the games on Steam and install them, throw on some emulators and it would be a better product for like half the price as this scam
@@christopherwollard5117 few places have enough internet to do what stadia originally promised (4K) and if you have enough money to afford both that internet speed and to pay for the service, you may as well pay for a good PC and get better results.
SaicaFox i was being IRONIC do you know what IRONY IS?? I guess you dont cause if you did you wouldnt have left such a dumb comment. Congrats bud you just played yourself. 🖕😝🖕
This machine is just a PC built from off the shell parts. That explains the price as well. They don't even have a special deal with manufacturers. They're just ordering off the shelf parts.
"Keep in mind this isn't the Atari of old". What I can tell you is, Atari was purchased back in the day by Infogrames. And Infogrames was the french equivalent to LJN. Same rainbow of shit. And games that looked great, but were way too hard to be enjoyed. Infogrames decided to keep the name Atari. So don't be surprised if Atari makes anything stupid.
It's almost amazing how they've managed to create things with no value. Like maybe, maybe if they had built the brand up and had an army of fans that would buy stuff no matter what it is, just because it has the Atari logo on it, then the console would have at least one thing to market to. But Atari hasn't been a thing for like, forever, afaik. It's been long enough since they were popular that there's no sense there's an audience to sway on that. So there's no pool to capitalize on, and the items themselves aren't valuable or polished enough to draw in new fans and customers. The cryptocurrency thing, too, sounds like a generic off the shelf platform with a lot of nothing written about it.
What's confusing me is that YongYea keeps addressing the Atari VCS 800 as an "Ouya level scam". The Ouya had a fully working prototype before it launched on kickstarter. The ouya was overwhelmingly successful on kickstarter, it did get delayed but it did ship. I know because I backed it. I got one. The Ouya Kickstarter wasn't a scam at all. The product worked as advertised and I got a good solid several years out of it as a retro games emulation machine and indie game box. It's the Coleco Chameleon that was a scam. That NEVER had a working prototype and in fact, went as far as to fake a working prototype on several occasions.
Sounds like someone came up with the ideas who genuinely had a passion to make this but the people in charge just thought it as a cash cow to rip people off with their incompetence
There is no passion behind it just a scam tactic that Sony used when they sold the mini PS1, anyone with a laptop or gaming PC can emulate Atari and PS1 games no problem
“The current, modern day Atari’s lack of due diligence” ...Yeah, modern Atari... Pac man and E.T for the 2600 weren’t a similar shit show because Atari stoped caring about quality the moment money was guaranteed. Let’s be honest here, this is very in line with how the company has been acting since ‘82, possibly even earlier.
Is it better or worse if the modern owners of the title are all sober? At least original Atari has the excuse of being super high to excuse their over extension and other mismanagement.
Ok, the people running this have *nothing* to do with the Atari Corporation back then. Atari was sold off, then sold off again, than again, until there was pretty much nothing left. Yes the people running Atari back then were idiots who didn't understand video games at all (just like the current idiots...which are different idiots).
Yep. Can't help but think someone thought the badge would be worth buying in order to have a go at a quick cash-grab. smh. I sure hope people aren't dumb enough to fall for this...
Well it's all the french company (infogrames) vault who bought atari and make this sh*tshow. They think by buying a worldwide known company name that bankrupt in the past will make people buying their game whatever the price? Hell no, the value of the product matter!
@@raharii12345 Atari bought Infrogames , not the other way around. Infogrames was a quite good company back in ps1 times with hogs of war wich sold over 100 milion copys.
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Chances are high it'll either be one 3-star hotel they pour tons of money in to try and truss up, or they franchise with some La Quintas and do the bare minimum of advertising their brand. Either way, it's going to end miserably for them.
It's a shame to see the company that started my gaming interest get flushed down the toilet like this, but then it's the whole idea of if you repair all the parts on the car is it still the same car you bought originally? Like you have said Atari has been bought and resold so many times now i doubt there are many if anyone who is at the company that was present in the late 70's/80's back when they were a gaming giant. Also nice t-shirt dude!
Been a long time since anyone last mention Ouya, that was a major big-time dumpster fire. Can you actually believe that after Ouya flopped and was than bought by Razer, Ouya creator Julie Urhman some how some way managed to land a job at noted film studio Lionsgate and is now currently the head of media at Playboy??? Yes THAT Playboy.
Makes a ton of sense actually. Look at the media space today: it's 90% hype and 10% product (anthem, fo76, some movies I'm sure, etc). They made Ouya massively popular, it just turned out to be garbage. Some companies value shallow hype like that. Wish they didn't tho
I looked on the website and it actually looks like the controller's are wired, like you can see where the wire is but then it's been edited out. For instance on the console itself it has two slots for the wired controller's... Wow!
The worst part? Wires are a Good thing. So many times I've wished my PS3 and PS4 controllers just had wires so I didn't have to deal with the nonsense faults caused by the way their wireless and battery tech works. Meanwhile the wired Logitech controllers I use with my PC have a fault list that amounts to 'sometimes if I'm not paying attention, I'll catch the wire with my leg as I stand up and have to grab the controller before it falls off the desk'... Of course, those things are so well built that even if I miss they're still fine. Cost a hell of a lot less, too.
@Laurence Fraser you can literally just keep the usb cable connected to your ps4 if wireless is such a hassle for you, you can find a 10ft one for $5 🙄
The Ouya wasn't really a scam, it actually delivered on all of its promises with a pretty decent premise. It just flat out flopped and had some obvious flaws that never got addressed because it didn't make any money.
@@Aagggyy Yeah, but all it was advertised to be was a mini Android console with mobile games and emulators that allowed indie devs to publish with - it did everything it promised. It just wasn't THAT compelling and never took off. It was a decent product nobody really wanted.
“An emulated version of Windows”? It’s just Windows. The whole system is just a regular mini PC supposedly running a custom Linux distro. You can upgrade the RAM/SSD and install whatever OS you want.
Not only is the Atari Vault on Steam for £7, but there's a £3 DLC to get a further 50 games. So you can actually get more Atari games on Steam right now than the VCS offers. Thanks for letting me know about that, by the way. I just bought 150 Atari games.
Putting the performance into perspective the Atari has only 1.86X the performance of a PS3 from 2006 and the Atari will have to compete directly with a PS5 which has about 25X the performance.
It’s too bad, because I really like how the console looks and making some really good updates retro games with fun spins on it would be really fun...if it was dropped to like 100$ imo
Sony: We really screwed up with the Playstation Classic. I wish someone would take the heat off of us. ::2 years later:: Atari: Hold my beer. Sony: Ummm I'm kinda in the middle of getting ready to launch the PS5. Where were you and why is your console weaker than the Vita but costs more? Vita: Senpai finally noticed me!
This might not be "the Atari of old", but you sure are making it sound like a repeat of the Jaguar- up and including that bit about not paying their developers.
@@voiceofthemachines Ok, sure. how about I subtract the Jaguar's 40k polygons per second from the 32x's 50k, leaving a difference 10k more polygons per second that the 32x can render compared to the Jaguar. or you can just compare Checkered Flag to Virtua Racing Deluxe and see the difference for yourself.
ninjacat230 Wow that joke went over your head, “do the math” was the Atari Jaguar slogan while trying to compare itself to real 64 bit graphic systems of its era. Didn’t work.
Ok Atari has just lost their minds , like all those greedy game companies that went out of business in the 1980’s and 1990’s . This is totally crap , I feel that Atari had a great name of old retro gaming that a lot of us remember when we were young . I still stream on twitch, my original Atari 2600 I got from sears new nearly 40 years ago ! If they had a great plan for a console even today people would buy it , they could make new games but choose not too . Look at all the indie games , bad graphics and still sell . To me this is not a great plan ! This is a get money fast scam that is going to upset a lot of people , including me . I heard about it and though I am going to get one , but now .... well .... maybe after it’s clearance down to nothing at the store . Great video , great info ! , I subscribed
If they just put “paint” on a Linux PC and package it up with software that’s already been out. Mushing it all together into a mess, where did all the money go?
I don’t see this as a scam, it’s basically a small computer in a specialized case. Zotac sells a core i3 10th gen mini pc for $400. So here you’re buying a $380 custom case mini pc with two controllers. Not really a “video game system” per se but on par with what would be expected.
@David Hinkle I’m not sure how they won’t release it since they’re dealing with Wal-Mart since Wal-Mart would just refund people who preorder. WM must have been pretty fairly convinced by them somehow that this thing is indeed being released to have even offered preorders on it. Wal-Mart must have been convinced of a firm arrival timeframe and likely even fronted money to ensure they get supply for the holidays. WM has money and lawyers who would pursue action against them. If the intent was to release nothing at all they never would even bother with WM. I’m pretty convinced they’re just gonna deliver your ordinary small form factor pc in an Atari shaped case.
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I would take out the nice part.
Apparently your missing one thing. The Atari VCS by default has the largest game library in gaming history, because it can play all Linux and Windows games.
It's a pretty ugly box honestly.
With E.T
It also woodgrain
I can’t believe Atari have made a worse console than the Atari Jaguar, and in 2020 no less.
They didnt even make a console. They just put a budget smartphone into a big wooden box.
well you got it right there
it's 2020
Keep in mind this Atari is not the Atari that made the Jagar.
There are like five different Ataris and they all have had horrible business practices, financial failures, or both.
The jaguar was cool tho
I love my Atari jaguar :(
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The Ouya wasn't really a scam though. It delivered on what they promised: a cheap Android box for your TV. It just didn't live up to the hype it had generated.
The VCS, on the other hand, is a massive obvious scam.
If they upped the specs it would be fine. Too bad, a laptop can do all this and is portable with its own screen and battery.
I mean, I wouldn't say that the ouya delivered on everythingit promised. E.g. free trail on all games was dropped.
Everything else was issues with some sloppy design, the controller was notoriously cheap and shit. Not enough good games since it was literally an android box. And some contradictory ideas. E..g it was meant to good for Indies and easily developable. But that meant the device was easily modable, meaning it had little to no security. So why would you develop games for it if your game can easily be cracked on the system?
Rip out the OS of the OUYA replace it with Linux and it makes for a great emulation box.
Yeah, the Ouya actually delivered unlike these clowns.
Also the ouya wasn't asking you spend 400 dollars on it.
I can't wait for the AVGN to cover this entire console in 10 years.
"Atari VCS? More like Atari BS!!"
"What were they thinking?!?"
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I don't like the console either, but AVGN and Cinemassacre have become so mediocre after that AVGN Movie that you have no idea. Anyone who remembers the 480p/Young James era Cinemassacre knows exactly what I'm talking about.
This thing will be worse than LJN
"innovative gambling games"
EA be like:
Write that down!
No, they don't wanna admit their games are gambling. I guess at least Atari admits it though. 🤷♂️
@@MobileDecaydont say gambling, its less surprising surprise mechanics
2K: Already ahead of ya!
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Just glue the Atari Joystick to the wall next to your TV and
HIT THE LEVER
This feels like a Scam from Ed, Edd, and Eddy.
More like Always Sunny.
It ends with a naked Danny DeVito as the main sprite in Pitfall, then oozing out of the TV.
I miss that show..true words tho😂
*25 cents*
@@tychothefriendlymonolith Always Sunny is just Ed, Edd, Eddy fused with Seinfeld anyway.
Haven't seen a ed, edd and eddy reference in a very long time.
This makes the Atari Jaguar look like a bestseller.
It makes the Virtual Boy look like a best seller. Hell, it even makes Stadia look like a best seller.
This makes the 3DO console look like a best seller
Despite a highly promoted launch (including being named Time magazine's "1993 Product of the Year") and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the 3DO's high price and an oversaturated console market prevented the system from achieving success comparable to veteran competitors Sega and Nintendo As a result, it was discontinued in late 1996
where did you learn to fly.
@LTNetjak 3 years? Not a chance. 6 months. The backlash this thing is going to get when it finally releases is going to make history.
“We put the original atari flashback in an all new box” is what I think this is going to be if it ever gets released.
"Activate Windows"... They are just litterally putting in your face how scammy this is going to be.
It's the devs working on this cursed console sending us a silent warming XD
Remember how old Atari screwed up so bad they destroyed their own monopoly and just imploded in epic fashion?
Every time the Atari brand gets passed around this happens
They were American, what do you expect? All massive American Corporations from the past are nothing but a shell of its former glory, remember RCA? Yeah exactly, IBM? Same story.
There only like a handful left like Apple and Microsoft and even they are starting to crumble.
@@SMGJohn IBM's still making almost $80 billion a year.
@@SMGJohn imagine thinking Apple and Microsoft are going anywhere
I miss them back when they were infogrames. catchy theme they had
Remember the atari that held a competition where the prize was a real fucking sword with gold and rubies and shit?
Yes that atari died, but we remember it in a good way.
Yeah. I think only one of those prizes was given. They didn't even carry that out completely.
@@originalscreenname44 First two prizes were given out. The last 3 likely ended up with the new CEO after they were bought out
originalscreenname44 the first two prizes which were a chalice and and a crown were given out. The others, including a philosopher’s stone and the sword were returned to the Franklin Mint where they were made and melted down in order to recover the gemstones that were added into the prizes. It’s more mundane, but that’s what happened.
@@DaFro3713 i didn't know that. And here I thought someone actual won it. I'm kinda sad now
I lay the ground work, you beauties Google what I was too tired to do haha. All my brain could muster was the sword, I think I remember seeing an image of whoever bought atari with the sword in his room, maybe why I only rembered that.
Is anyone else mentally hearing Yahtzee's jingle: "Lets all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, teeheehee!" ?
Yep. his words have rung in my head for the last decade and a half.
Soulja Boy console vs Atari VCS. Who wins as the best worst "console"?
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Damn.. I just can't choose right now! 🤷♂️🤷♂️
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I'd give it to Soulja Boy. It was hilarious watching an irrelevant rapper with one hit song trying to break into the games industry with that shit. This is just sad because of how iconic Atari used to be.
For now Soulja Boy console currently exists. Soulja Boy released with his, Atari haven’t.
So For now the Atari VCS wins as worst console.
*Stadia: "we're the worst gaming console."*
*Atari: "hold my 1982 E.T. game."*
Will they bury these Vcs800's on top of the ET games?
ET 4K 60 FPS remaster let's go
But stadia is so much better than when it released so much improvement
@@pessimisticdiabetic717 it was a joke, don't be so butt hurt.
@@shutitfukface the stadia is a joke 😂
These companies are racking their brains trying to find ways to make money, when what they really need to do is just make a good product that speaks for itself.
That's true, both for hardware AND software.
@@snaynation Not true at all. Playing the hype game or doing just about any other effective marketing can be just as profitable as making a good product. People in general just aren't that discerning with what they spend their money on. Many good products are unknown and unsuccessful, because many creative people are not good at marketing or any of the business side of things. Look at all the garbage on Steam, early access or not, that people still buy. Look at the scourge that is 'crowdfunded game development' (be an adult and take out a loan like everyone else if you can't fund the thing you want to do, like buying a house or car). Maybe some of the devs now have a bad reputation from doing these things, but so what? They don't have a bad reputation with their bank manager, and that's what we're talking about: making money.
@@othertalk3313 You probably do the same line of work as these "Atari" guys do.
When you see people going for Chevrolet instead of Mercedes, which is what this pos is trying to do (considering it costs as much as PS 4), you might see them succeed. You might see some unicorns grazing too while youre at it.
@@Qlicky But there's truth in what he's saying. Marketing is very effective of selling games and, on average, accounts for more than 50% of a AAA game's budget. You have to realise that gaming is a money making venture for the suits and not a hobby that's supposed to make you all fuzzy and warm inside. Good products don't necessarily sell as well as products that had better advertising or a prettier finish. The actual quality of a game doesn't matter nearly as much as the marketing does. I'm incredibly salty about it too but there's no way around it. Have you noticed that in pretty much any videogame there are only 5 ways to interact with the game and advance the game state? Press "use" on something (press F to pay respects), stand in a specific place, kill all enemies in the arena, kill a specific enemy in the arena, and timers/counters. Everything in modern games is built by mixing and matching those triggers, and it has been this way since fucking Half Life. But why bother improving that when you can make fancier graphics with photogrammetry and ray-tracing and whatnot? On average, prettier graphics will sell the game way better than any actually good and innovative mechanics. If your goal is making money, it is far more efficient to spend your existing money on marketing and graphics than on anything else.
When you get let's say 500 million from your investors, your first thought is not that you can make an awesome game with that money, but that you need to sell enough shit to make a good return on those 500 million in a negotiated time frame. Which means that your game has to sell millions of copies and lootboxes. Which means your game needs to appeal to the mass market instead of niche audiences and pursue "engagement" for online portions or projects. Which means that you have to allocate resources into graphics instead of gameplay. Which means you will most likely end up with a common action or action-adventure game with fancy trailers and filled with expensive setpieces and pointless season passes. A "good product that speaks for itself" is very hard to make and inherently a very risky investment, and for every one that succeeded there were countless failed investments which either failed to deliver or simply got buried in the sheer volume of games being released nowadays.
@Agent 005 Sure. When I say: "It takes money to make money" that is also correct, no?
So, how come loads of people went bust when its such an easy concept to grasp?
By that logic, you just need to invest in marketing, have a decent idea and youll be swimming in cash.
It is very easy to talk about stuff, a lot harder to pull it off.
On a side note, calling the OUYA a scam is really unfair, even more so when comparing to Atari VCS. OUYA was made by a small company, tried a new idea (which, true, didn't work out, but hindsight is 20/20 after all), had an active developer community, had active support, had a bunch of games which launched on the platform, and most importantly cost something like $99. Yes mistakes were made and the platform failed, but it was a genuine attempt at launching a console.
Spot on! Not sure why people call it a scam. It's simply a product which failed.
They should just call it the Atari VCR, that's how much it's worth
VCRs play awesome old school movies, don't you dare compare the shitty VCS to a VCR!
VHS was and still is the most successful home video player of all time. This thing WISHES it was a VHS player.
a VCR is useful. this thing isn't (no seriously its great for capturing legacy consoles with a neat filter.
Nah, VCRs do what they're designed to do.
@@pleasuretokill I still have VHS tapes in my room! I used to watch them in the early 2000s as a child.
"Perfect for Children with no necks."
-JonTron
Finally! A game console for me!
The fact that they said you can upgrade the RAM or *install your own operating system* was a huge red flag and immediately tipped me off that this was just an underpowered PC. When the developers stated that they weren't making a version for VCS and that all their featured games are already on Steam cinched it.
Would be even more hilarious if the Atari Vault wasn't pre-installed, but instead you'd get a download-code for steam :D
It's basically like the C64x that came out a few years ago by this shady company called "Commodore USA" who at that time held the Commodore brand license.. They too released overpriced underpowered hardware (basically netbook or entry-level laptop hardware) in brand new C64 and Amiga cases. It didn't last for long though till it collapsed and now their website is scrubbed.
That’s not emulated Windows. That’s literally just Windows 10 installed on this machine. I have an SBC on my desk with the exact same specs as the VCS running Windows 10.
Yeah, unless you meant a virtual machine, emulated windows does not have a watermark
Sounds like Fire Festival: The Console
at least you got a half of a sandwich at the fyre festival
With Jarul as the key influencer for the VCS
Still can't get over how they spelled Fire as Fyre.
@@madwolf0966 In the voice(and character) of The Vulture from Brooklyn 99: "The 'y' makes it cooler, like how racing stripes make your car go faster. Or maybe you just can't appreciate dope spellings."
LoL, I love how they made him friends with the guy who scammed everyone with that disaster XD
Yo the soulja boy console is a more complete product lol
6:30 with how large that activate windows watermark is, the resolution is LOW
That too.
I just realize I've been watching YongYea for over 5 years. Since before Metal Gear Solid 5 even came out and I have to say, not only was he such a reliable source for the game I was looking forward to the most at the time, but he's become an incredible gaming news anchor that deserves the 1 million subscribers he has. Keep it up, Yong!
If he could stop stretching to the 10 minutes ad mark, that'd be great.
If he could stop stretching to the 10 minutes ad mark, that’d be great.
Holy shit it's already been 5 years? I remember watching YongYea do the 30 day lore thing before MGS 5 was about to come out like it was yesterday. Holy crap
I subscribed to his channel originally due to his Skyrim movies. Would definitely love to see a final conclusion to the series. I hope he doesn't go full Valve and stops knowing how to count to 3
He isnt THAT great. He is pretty negative honestly only about 1 out of 10 videos he makes are positive.
He isnt bad but he isnt great.
Wow, a Raspberry Pi with an emulator would be cheaper!
I've owned the Atari Vault for years and recognized it right away. Fun fact: it replace an earlier "Atari 50 Games In One" or something like that package that got pulled because it never worked. And no, Steam never gave us refunds
This whole situation makes me almost wish we could legally force them to give up the Atari brand to someone more worthy... unfortunately current law lacks such options...
Yeah, so unfortunate that the law doesn't let the mob take whatever it wants from whoever it wants.
@ Bro what the hell? It's literally just a name. You have to be kidding, this is the most consumerist stuff ever, worshiping a brand, and you're somehow tying it to socialism. Imagine actually thinking that your worship of the name "Atari" is a good defense of socialism.
"every time a country expropiated a brand or enterprise a large amount of people benefited out of it" - EVERY time? I seem to remember you people killed millions doing that stuff.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD lol
"When people die under socialism it is because of socialism. When people die under capitalism it's because they deserved it." Really not looking forward to that invasion of Iran.
But yeah, video games aren't a need and there's nothing special about brands. Make your own Atari style games however you want - it's not like the means of production aren't open and free. The internet is literally communist, after all.
Stuff like VVVVVV very much revives the feeling of the 2600. Hell, the 2600 aesthetic is the easiest to replicate since you don't even need MUSIC - one person is more than enough.
I do understand being jelly about the power of advertising it gives them, though. We literally wouldn't even know or care that this AVCS thing existed if they didn't own a trademark. This thing has less value to humanity than some bad 8 page long webnovel an 11 year old kid wrote and then gave up on over a weekend - by virtue of it not being a scam. The envy is very reasonable.
@@BMoser-bv6kn "When people die under capitalism it's because they deserved it" - Either post the quote where I said anyone deserved to die or admit you're a liar.
Yeah, it’s painful how these scummy jackouts are dragging Atari’s name through the mud.
You could literally buy a dead Atari put in a Raspberry Pi Linux based emulation rig, buy the games on Steam and install them, throw on some emulators and it would be a better product for like half the price as this scam
even your phone would be more competent at doing this lolz
Prwtty much the same scenario for those useless mini consoles too 😂😂
There's also Atari Vault on Steam.
Yeah, except you forgot the part where you boot qemu because the games aren't ARM.
Go with a MiSTer FPGA base and you have essentially the actual hardware of the original consoles, everything up until the 32-bit era.
These people are shadier than televangelists wanting a private jet.
That comment is almost as dumb as all the other ‘I want to say something mean’ comments here by other clueless people
Google: stadia is the biggest failure in gaming
Atari: hold my beer
Stadia is most definitely not the biggest industry failure.
@moo nee Atari has been dead for years. Its just few people throwing its corpse around.
@moo nee stadia isn't crap it works fine if you have the right internet and you just want top play some games
@@christopherwollard5117 few places have enough internet to do what stadia originally promised (4K) and if you have enough money to afford both that internet speed and to pay for the service, you may as well pay for a good PC and get better results.
Hold my box
Dang son, Yong didn’t even use lube in this review just went in bareback.
Didnt even cuddle with the atari after either just walked out.
SaicaFox i was being IRONIC do you know what IRONY IS??
I guess you dont cause if you did you wouldnt have left such a dumb comment.
Congrats bud you just played yourself.
🖕😝🖕
"Atari just went FULL KONAMI. You should never go full Konami!"
I hope you mean current day Konami?!
FucKonami News [tm]
Does this mean we get E.T. themed Yu-Gi-Oh cards?
the difference is konami makes bank lmao rip atari
At this point, i'm waiting for The Culling on this console...
LOL nice Penguinz0 reference...
Come on Yong. If you think I'm watching the same video twice
You are goddamn right bro
Atari in the 1970s: we're leading the gaming industry with revolutionary hardware and software
Atari today: hEy ReMeMbEr ThE 70s?
A true shame that our hopes and dreams of finally being able to play E.T in stunning 4k might not see the light of day.
Hopefully one day we will get to play the game in 8k
I know this was sarcasm, but it's easy to play E.T. in 4k...just grab Stella, lol.
Bring on the 2nd Video Game Crash!
This machine is just a PC built from off the shell parts. That explains the price as well. They don't even have a special deal with manufacturers. They're just ordering off the shelf parts.
STOP! STOP! HE'S ALREADY DEAD!
Atari: "CRYPTO CURRENCY"
Atari stonkholders: *SCAM IS PROFIT*
"Keep in mind this isn't the Atari of old". What I can tell you is, Atari was purchased back in the day by Infogrames. And Infogrames was the french equivalent to LJN. Same rainbow of shit. And games that looked great, but were way too hard to be enjoyed. Infogrames decided to keep the name Atari.
So don't be surprised if Atari makes anything stupid.
Good to know. Guess we can call Atari anything we want now!
Atari was already bought by Warner bros in the 80s
legacy of goku 2 and super sonic warriors was good but thats it really
Wouldn’t catch us doing anything like this.
Hello billy
Shush, Bill.
_red ring of death sounds_
Shut up bill, help your Xbox now!
I love Gamepass
"Now introducing Atari coin"
That's a big no from me dawg.
😹 yeah dawg, hard pass on the VCS.
You could make this on a raspberry pi 4gb ddr4 with emulators for $50USD saving you $320 for what they are offering.
I actually did that. 🙂
That's a good idea
The average American does not find that convenient
You have to pirate the games though
@@james-ch It's not piracy if it's from the stone age.
It's almost amazing how they've managed to create things with no value. Like maybe, maybe if they had built the brand up and had an army of fans that would buy stuff no matter what it is, just because it has the Atari logo on it, then the console would have at least one thing to market to. But Atari hasn't been a thing for like, forever, afaik. It's been long enough since they were popular that there's no sense there's an audience to sway on that. So there's no pool to capitalize on, and the items themselves aren't valuable or polished enough to draw in new fans and customers.
The cryptocurrency thing, too, sounds like a generic off the shelf platform with a lot of nothing written about it.
The Atari VCS was a scam from day one. Its like the coleco chameleon... except it actually exsists
@TheDragonDAFan haha so did I, but I can't help but think about it when someone brings the VCS up.
@TheDragonDAFan It wasn't a thing. The furthest it got into "development" was putting an SNES motherboard in a Jaguar shell.
It's Atari's version of the Vega+
What's confusing me is that YongYea keeps addressing the Atari VCS 800 as an "Ouya level scam". The Ouya had a fully working prototype before it launched on kickstarter. The ouya was overwhelmingly successful on kickstarter, it did get delayed but it did ship. I know because I backed it. I got one. The Ouya Kickstarter wasn't a scam at all. The product worked as advertised and I got a good solid several years out of it as a retro games emulation machine and indie game box.
It's the Coleco Chameleon that was a scam. That NEVER had a working prototype and in fact, went as far as to fake a working prototype on several occasions.
Does this exist?
Sounds like someone came up with the ideas who genuinely had a passion to make this but the people in charge just thought it as a cash cow to rip people off with their incompetence
There is no passion behind it just a scam tactic that Sony used when they sold the mini PS1, anyone with a laptop or gaming PC can emulate Atari and PS1 games no problem
I want people to remember one important thing, especially with how ridiculously obvious this Atari VCS scam is.
Atari also wants to make hotels.
“The current, modern day Atari’s lack of due diligence” ...Yeah, modern Atari... Pac man and E.T for the 2600 weren’t a similar shit show because Atari stoped caring about quality the moment money was guaranteed.
Let’s be honest here, this is very in line with how the company has been acting since ‘82, possibly even earlier.
Is it better or worse if the modern owners of the title are all sober? At least original Atari has the excuse of being super high to excuse their over extension and other mismanagement.
Ok, the people running this have *nothing* to do with the Atari Corporation back then. Atari was sold off, then sold off again, than again, until there was pretty much nothing left. Yes the people running Atari back then were idiots who didn't understand video games at all (just like the current idiots...which are different idiots).
@@morganrobinson8042 while I suspect you are right, for all we know, there is still the possibility that they are all high as a kite.
@@fixman88 that is the most brutally honest thing I've ever read. 🤣
Atari Before: *beloved and popular*
Atari Now: *a complete joke*
Sega: first time
Atari Now. Like PS Now, but with even less games and significantly more expensive.
Yep. Can't help but think someone thought the badge would be worth buying in order to have a go at a quick cash-grab. smh. I sure hope people aren't dumb enough to fall for this...
Well it's all the french company (infogrames) vault who bought atari and make this sh*tshow.
They think by buying a worldwide known company name that bankrupt in the past will make people buying their game whatever the price? Hell no, the value of the product matter!
@@raharii12345 Atari bought Infrogames , not the other way around.
Infogrames was a quite good company back in ps1 times with hogs of war wich sold over 100 milion copys.
Hey Yong, just wanted to say that for me you're a cut above the rest as a result of the wonderfully straightforward manner with which you present you're opinions and content. I love that you clearly show the articles being discussed, aren't afraid to read verbatim, and even show your highlighting as you editorialize. Don't ever change my man.
Last time I heard, Atari is also talking about going into the hotel industry as well. I don't know how well that will turn out.
As soon as Air Quest comes out.
Chances are high it'll either be one 3-star hotel they pour tons of money in to try and truss up, or they franchise with some La Quintas and do the bare minimum of advertising their brand.
Either way, it's going to end miserably for them.
That's when I checkout 😆😆😐
Like in Blade Runner?
Just like the forgotten Nintendo Hotel
Ah, the whole purpose was to make a micro transaction machine without regard to actually using it for gaming.
I noticed that the rating for this unreleased, yet-to-be-manufactured device has dropped from 4-stars to 3-stars. Interesting.
Take a shot every time Yong says "point four six terraflops"
A Raspberry pie can run an atari and it's like 80 bucks. ......Atari can hire me, I can make this real.
A smartwatch could run an Atari.
They won't pay you.
A Raspberry can run GTA V if you're determined enough to go full potato.
Then all you have to do is 3D printed the case which isn't hard
Dude, abithing can run Atari
Old nokia phones could run Atari....
It's a shame to see the company that started my gaming interest get flushed down the toilet like this, but then it's the whole idea of if you repair all the parts on the car is it still the same car you bought originally? Like you have said Atari has been bought and resold so many times now i doubt there are many if anyone who is at the company that was present in the late 70's/80's back when they were a gaming giant.
Also nice t-shirt dude!
Been a long time since anyone last mention Ouya, that was a major big-time dumpster fire.
Can you actually believe that after Ouya flopped and was than bought by Razer, Ouya creator Julie Urhman some how some way managed to land a job at noted film studio Lionsgate and is now currently the head of media at Playboy??? Yes THAT Playboy.
Interesting
He showed to be good at marketing.
Life finds a way
@@ServantBerserkerZero my favorite quote
Makes a ton of sense actually. Look at the media space today: it's 90% hype and 10% product (anthem, fo76, some movies I'm sure, etc). They made Ouya massively popular, it just turned out to be garbage. Some companies value shallow hype like that. Wish they didn't tho
"Innovating gambling" is just Corporate Speak for "we want to keep exploiting users without regulations", right?
I looked on the website and it actually looks like the controller's are wired, like you can see where the wire is but then it's been edited out.
For instance on the console itself it has two slots for the wired controller's... Wow!
The worst part?
Wires are a Good thing. So many times I've wished my PS3 and PS4 controllers just had wires so I didn't have to deal with the nonsense faults caused by the way their wireless and battery tech works. Meanwhile the wired Logitech controllers I use with my PC have a fault list that amounts to 'sometimes if I'm not paying attention, I'll catch the wire with my leg as I stand up and have to grab the controller before it falls off the desk'... Of course, those things are so well built that even if I miss they're still fine. Cost a hell of a lot less, too.
@@laurencefraser yea i dont get the hate against wires they work perfectly for me.
His point is that they're editing them out, not that the wires themselves are bad. Jesus people.
@@phase_1471 Its almost like false advertising to me?
@Laurence Fraser you can literally just keep the usb cable connected to your ps4 if wireless is such a hassle for you, you can find a 10ft one for $5 🙄
They should port Raid: Shadow Legends as their main title
Probably can't even play the raid advertisments smoothly 😂
Only 90’s Kids remember the original upload
That awkward moment when Windows licensing kills your exclusive "emulator" on a third party commercial console.
they should have sold the console for 200 bucks or less, 400 is insane when you can get a ps4 pro for the same price
$200 is too much. $100 or less would be fine.
nah just make $400 pc with used rx570 or so, install windows/linux buy $10 100 games included in price.....you will x3 have a better gaming machine.
This console is dominated (hardware wise) by the PS4 pro now let alone the PS5 which will come out later this year
Nathan A. Torres not everyone wants a pc
It’s trash I wouldn’t pay $20 for it
Sony: We Got Horizon Zero Dawn
Microsoft: We Got Halo
Nintendo: We Got Zelda
PC: We got Half Life Alyx
Atari: We got *Yars Revenge*
I love Yars Revenge! Unironically.
The Ouya wasn't really a scam, it actually delivered on all of its promises with a pretty decent premise. It just flat out flopped and had some obvious flaws that never got addressed because it didn't make any money.
xOogieBoogie3x yeah, this is a misinformed comment that lowers the credibility of what is being said in the video.
The ouya is shit
+1. The Ouya failed, but there's a difference between a scam and an honest product that failed.
@@Aagggyy Yeah, but all it was advertised to be was a mini Android console with mobile games and emulators that allowed indie devs to publish with - it did everything it promised.
It just wasn't THAT compelling and never took off. It was a decent product nobody really wanted.
The OUYA is a great retro console emulation machine. I played Earthbound on it 👍
They were probably wondering: „what’s the price of that Sony console again? Right, we go with that.“
16 TIMES the LESS DETAIL!!!!!
So what is that rectangle?
That is you.
Oh, what about that triangle?
That is your sword.
16 TIMES the DETAILESS
“An emulated version of Windows”?
It’s just Windows. The whole system is just a regular mini PC supposedly running a custom Linux distro. You can upgrade the RAM/SSD and install whatever OS you want.
This makes the ouya look like an incredible point of history for the game industry.
Ouya for all its faults was at least reasonably priced.
@@Qlicky true and it wasn't a scam. They were upfront with everything.
Indeed, for the money, the OUYA was a solidly built piece of equipment
So how does it feel being wrong?
Absolutely nothing. He's been wrong several times already and he's still getting views lol.
I get the feeling this console is going to ...teraflop.
Well it doesnt even have one, so how's that possible?
@@Blob69 It can still gigaflop, and that's good enough for me.
I'm gonna do it...(drums) YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh!
Not only is the Atari Vault on Steam for £7, but there's a £3 DLC to get a further 50 games. So you can actually get more Atari games on Steam right now than the VCS offers. Thanks for letting me know about that, by the way. I just bought 150 Atari games.
So there's no reason to buy this console at all.....
And yet they are charging it for $400 thinking that people will buy it lol
The worst is that some people did pre-buy it already.
With that kind of money you could buy low-end to midrange PC and play all those 100 games and could play current AAA game with 1080p high
The VCS is shaping up to basically be a fancier AtGames console.
Me: It can't get any worse for the VCS
YongYea: I was just getting started
Overpriced PC with bad spesifications.. Let atari names sleep forever ffs....
Putting the performance into perspective the Atari has only 1.86X the performance of a PS3 from 2006 and the Atari will have to compete directly with a PS5 which has about 25X the performance.
*VCS 800? Was wondering what the number is for... I guess it's the price*
@@xraymind r/whoosh
It's definitely not the Gigaflops (a metric not used for 10 years or so because it's too outdated. It's Teraflops now)
Because it fits the taste of customers from year 800
It’s too bad, because I really like how the console looks and making some really good updates retro games with fun spins on it would be really fun...if it was dropped to like 100$ imo
Bring back the C64 with exotic custom hardware.
Every time someone buys the Atari name, they dragg it trough the mudd more and more
Sony: We really screwed up with the Playstation Classic. I wish someone would take the heat off of us.
::2 years later::
Atari: Hold my beer.
Sony: Ummm I'm kinda in the middle of getting ready to launch the PS5. Where were you and why is your console weaker than the Vita but costs more?
Vita: Senpai finally noticed me!
*Sempai
A Floyd there it is pronounced sempai, but when written out in kana it’s written as senpai so Whitney is correct
There is no Windows emulation on the VCS. Just like on any other PC, they simply installed Windows 10 on it and did not activate it.
Every year more and more companies are finding new ways to take advantage of the gaming community. When will we say enough is enough?
It's a whole new generation of suckers to exploit.
James Rolf must be cussing up a storm for these devs spitting on Ataris legacy.
Atari always been shady ever since Roller Coaster Tycoon World
This might not be "the Atari of old", but you sure are making it sound like a repeat of the Jaguar- up and including that bit about not paying their developers.
At least the Jaguar was an impressive machine for its time; there are phones nowadays that pack more punch than this VCS wannabee.
@@chromplex the Jaguar was less powerful than the 32x
ninjacat230 do the math
@@voiceofthemachines Ok, sure. how about I subtract the Jaguar's 40k polygons per second from the 32x's 50k, leaving a difference 10k more polygons per second that the 32x can render compared to the Jaguar.
or you can just compare Checkered Flag to Virtua Racing Deluxe and see the difference for yourself.
ninjacat230 Wow that joke went over your head, “do the math” was the Atari Jaguar slogan while trying to compare itself to real 64 bit graphic systems of its era. Didn’t work.
Only OGs remember the first video
Feels like it was up only a couple minutes ago 😭
I thought this was a reupload till I read even more embarrassing, how the fuck is that possible????
Bruh this thing as powerful as intel hd graphics
My $149 phone is on par with it, and it has a battery and a display to boot.
My OnePlus 7 Pro is more powwrful than this thing, so uhh
Ok Atari has just lost their minds , like all those greedy game companies that went out of business in the 1980’s and 1990’s . This is totally crap , I feel that Atari had a great name of old retro gaming that a lot of us remember when we were young . I still stream on twitch, my original Atari 2600 I got from sears new nearly 40 years ago ! If they had a great plan for a console even today people would buy it , they could make new games but choose not too . Look at all the indie games , bad graphics and still sell . To me this is not a great plan ! This is a get money fast scam that is going to upset a lot of people , including me . I heard about it and though I am going to get one , but now .... well .... maybe after it’s clearance down to nothing at the store .
Great video , great info ! , I subscribed
3:55 who tf uses an analog joystick like that? Methinks they're not even playing the game
If they just put “paint” on a Linux PC and package it up with software that’s already been out. Mushing it all together into a mess, where did all the money go?
All the cash was profit. It was a lucrative success for whoever did this thing.
An island
As a wise man would say:
"This is the greatest console of all time"
Kupo!
What???
How have I never heard even rumors about this??
As Evitel & Taliesin likes to say:
"Its a shitshow"
As George Carlin would say, “That’s pretty fucking stupid.”
Who are those?
@@KnakuanaRka UA-camrs - they do WoW related videos
They are trying to monetize sentimental and nostalgic value, and maybe to some people (maybe small demographic) , $380 is worth it?
I have the real thing, and I paid $15 for it.
Atari vcs sounds like as if illumination bought dreamworks and was remaking all their movies....
Wait a moment....
Good video. What do you think of the Intellivision Amico?
"A beloved company like Atari"
Ya, I'm gonna stop you right there, Yong.
I don’t see this as a scam, it’s basically a small computer in a specialized case. Zotac sells a core i3 10th gen mini pc for $400. So here you’re buying a $380 custom case mini pc with two controllers. Not really a “video game system” per se but on par with what would be expected.
@David Hinkle There’s no fundamental reason not to. They’re selling $150-200 worth of hardware at a $100-200 markup.
@David Hinkle I’m not sure how they won’t release it since they’re dealing with Wal-Mart since Wal-Mart would just refund people who preorder. WM must have been pretty fairly convinced by them somehow that this thing is indeed being released to have even offered preorders on it. Wal-Mart must have been convinced of a firm arrival timeframe and likely even fronted money to ensure they get supply for the holidays. WM has money and lawyers who would pursue action against them. If the intent was to release nothing at all they never would even bother with WM. I’m pretty convinced they’re just gonna deliver your ordinary small form factor pc in an Atari shaped case.