Atari VCS, som tidigare hette Ataribox, har varit utannonserad ganska länge nu och en prototyp visades under GDC-mässan. Däremot har ingen fått se en demonstration av en fungerande enhet ännu. Det har fått ögonbryn att höjas och nu anklagas hela konsolen för att vara en bluff. Det är Facebook-användaren Curt Vendel som offentliggjort ett längre inlägg i gruppen Atari Museum, där han berättar om maskinen utvecklarna hade med till GDC och citerar andra källor:
Här är ett utdrag ur hans varning till de som överväger att förhandsboka:
"Seems Atari is not only renamed its console, its renamed its Crowdfunding. So instead of using IndieGoGo... Atari plans to ahem.... start taking "Pre-Orders" (cough cough.... crowdfund)
So basically instead of going to Indiegogo, you'll go right to the Ataribox (vcs, scam.... whatever they are calling it this month...) and you will plop down your $249.99 happily and eagerly to "Pre-order" their snake oil, smoke and mirrors empty plastic box with pretty LED's on it and glued on USB and Network port on the back (yippie!!!) and then you will wait, and wait, and wait... and shades of Gameband will float through your head...
But but but... Feargal's not involved anymore (yeah, ummmm, a little birdie made a HUGE mistake in an email to me and accidentally tipped their hand.... more on that as time goes by and I'll make a HUGE reveal on the truth of that matter...)
So, let me forewarn you. If after all of the warnings you still want to blindly throw your money at a company who for nearly a year has shown absolutely NOTHING but a plastic box, a solid plastic mockup and oh, looky a joystick with pretty lights but the head of the project says he doesn't know if it works (yeah, that ignorance instills just soooooooooooo much confidence in wanting to plunk down my $$$ on it, not.) By now, any REAL developer would've had a buggy, messy prototype board to have at least shown, even if its chip was an older type and in final production they'd later use a next rev chip. They would've shown the joysticks working on the board and had it connected to a TV...
But that would mean that they actually had something, they haven't done ANYTHING other than say (ummm, Steam did it, so we'll do it) and ummm.... we'll use an AMD chip cause ummmm, well, people know who AMD is,right."
Tror du Vendel är något på spåren eller är det överdriven misstänksamhet mot en given succé?
