Did a bunch of idiots just give a multi-million dollar company 2,500,000 USD—out of a "necessary" 100,000 USD—to show interest for a product that they still will still have to buy?
As if it wasn't obvious crowd funding became a money making scheme before, this all but shouts "IT'S A SCAM, STUPID".
It's their money to waste though, so have at it.
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Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
Its not just some "Legacy" console, either. Apparently, they're making brand new modern games. The only thing holding it back is that I haven't seen any "physical" disc/cartridge-based media.
It won't be near worth the money sunk into crowdfunding.
These things are as big a scam as investment banking and startup angel investing.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
But it won't have physical media. It's basically Apple TV. The only people who will buy this thing will players who want the kick at playing old Atari.
There is no way people are buying this thing for new Atari games...it's laughable if the company believes that's the case considering it's mos likely these games will be released on consoles/PC.
And...really....people who remember Atari are probably mid 40's and up and there is very little reason to believe they will buy this stupid thing.
Like PS4, Xbox One type games, at least I'd like to believe that this is the Atari entering back into the gaming scene, with brand new PS4-grade games released for their new cutting-edge game console.
No third party developer will make anything on this thing. If Nintendo has a hard time gaining third party developers, you really think publishers will even look at this stupid thing?
Hahaha....consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One cost hundreds of millions to develop. The reported cost for the Xbox One controller is upwards of 100 million.
The Ouya received 8.5 million dollars in Kickstarter money and it failed miserably. And....Atari is a shit company, I highly doubt they could make a console capable to replicate PS4 like games. They can barely make games.
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.