Here’s What Atari Can Learn From Its Past Consoles To Make AtariBox A Success

Atari has made some mistakes with consoles in the past, but it can capitalize on these and make AtariBox its best yet. WWG has some suggestions.

[PhoenixUp]

"Atari also worked well with third parties to establish a strong library for the system, like with Activision."

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Here's a quickly history lesson. In the beginning Atari was the only publisher of games for the Atari 2600. This was particularly galling to the developers, as they received neither financial rewards nor credit for games that sold well.

Atari programmers demanded that the company treat their developers as record labels treated musicians, with royalties and their names on game boxes. Kaplan, who called the others "the best designers for the 2600 in the world", recalled that CEO Kassar called the four men "towel designers" and that "anyone can do a cartridge." These programmers then left Atari and formed the world's first ever third party publisher, Activision.

Against Atari's publishing policies at the time, Activision was the first studio to allow programmers to take credit for the games they designed. This achievement is one of the greatest keystones in this entire industry.

If longtime veteran Nintendo still has issues getting a lot of third party support on their successful new console, you better believe that Atari with its shady past will have a way harder time accomplishing the same feat. And unlike Nintendo, Atari doesn't have properties to completely sustain themselves.

[Elda]

Pass.

[yellowgerbil]

It can't be a success. First they have no real first party developers. So no compelling exclusives. Second they're brand is poison, and are credited with destroying the gaming industry. Third their IPs are trash, the few classics people DO fondly remember aren't owned by them, such as Pac man (namco) and pitfall (activision)

[joab777]

Or work on a game like Zelda and then you can release whatever hardware you want for it, and it will sell.

[Klonoa-dreamtraveler]

You guys do realize it's not the same owners from years ago they went bankrupt and were bought, the people who are making the decisions now are different people who made those mistakes in the past i don't know why people keep applying the past with now when even though the brand name it's a whole different company taking control now if they feel this confident about stepping back in they obviously got a plan and know something we don't and all anyone can come up with is someone elses past mistakes and decisions made years ago.

You can't just make a console on the spot they obviously had this planned for a while including making new ip's and finding new talent that want to work with Atari and making up their own new team of exclusives and what not. each console that has came out from other brands like sony, sega, microsoft and nintendo didn't have a number one ip at first either that everyone knew about that has made it's name known so no crap to us they don't have any ip's to push in the modern gaming other than their older ip's.

All we can do is see what they have in store and what exactly is their goal and motive and what are their plans to be relevant in the console market again.