Atari has just announced at the Game Developers Conference, which is held these days in the United States, the new name that the next console it has been working on in recent months will receive. Initially, this console was scheduled to arrive on the market under the name Ataribox, but as the company has announced this will be renamed Atari VCS.
The new Ataribox is Atari's answer to the NES Classic and SNES Classic consoles that the Nintendo company has launched in the last two years and that they have been so successful in the market. The new Ataribox will offer us a design inspired by the company's classic game consoles, specifically in the Atari 2600 and will hit the market with the classic lever-shaped control and a gamepad.
This new device was scheduled to hit the market last year, but the company was forced to delay it, stating that it "needed more time to create the platform and ecosystem that the Atari community deserves." The company has not specified a planned launch dateHe has only been able to say that it will be soon. For now, the reservation date will begin in April but the console could reach users sometime before the end of the year.
This device, will not only be able to run classic Atari titlesIt will also be compatible with PC games that do not require many resources, thanks to the AMD processor designed for the device with Radeon graphics and a Linux-based operating system. Just as the date on which it could hit the market has not been announced, the price that this console will have on the market has not been announced either, but it is likely to be between $ 250 and $ 300, a price that if it only executed Atari classics would be overkill, but by offering greater compatibility, it may be a suitable price for many users.