Solely Walmart will supply the Kevlar Gold design.
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The basic Atari model is making yet one more return, this time as a retro-styled set-top field gaming console. Initially launched as a crowdfunding marketing campaign in 2018 and elevating greater than $three million, the Atari VCS console is out there to preorder immediately from retailers Walmart and GameStop, in addition to from the corporate web site.
A number of fashions are being provided, with barely totally different specs, designs and equipment. The Atari VCS 400 mannequin has 4GB of RAM, and prices $249, whereas the 8GB 800 model is $279. A $389 “all in” model of the 800 console contains each a joystick and gamepad. The $49 classic-style joystick and $59 fashionable gamepad will even be bought individually.
In order for you essentially the most traditional-looking Atari expertise, the model bought instantly by Atari is your greatest guess, coming in a retro Black Walnut design. GameStop is getting the all-black Onyx design, whereas Walmart is getting a design named Kevlar Gold, with gold particulars on its entrance panel.
The basic walnut look.
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Orders from Walmart and GameStop are anticipated to ship in March, 2020, whereas supporters of final 12 months’s IndieGoGo marketing campaign might get their methods as early as December of this 12 months.
The Atari VCS runs an AMD processor with Radeon Vega graphics, and helps 4K video output for streaming video in addition to for video games. The native dashboard UI runs beneath an Atari OS, which the corporate has beforehand mentioned is “primarily based on a modified model of the Linux kernel.” The system will even supply a sandbox mode, which the corporate says will flip the VCS into an “open and expandable multimedia PC.”
The basic joystick and a extra fashionable gamepad controller.
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It is a considerably totally different enterprise mannequin than the final wave of retro sport consoles. Led by the Nintendo NES Basic Version, gaming manufacturers have been pushing small, under-$100 set-top containers preloaded with emulated variations of basic video games.
The NES Basic and SNES Basic containers had been real hits. The PlayStation Basic was not, maybe indicating the bounds of retro gaming demand.
The Onyx model, out there at GameStop and instantly from Atari.
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By supporting each basic and new video games, and giving avid gamers the choice of getting a easy plug-and-play expertise, putting in new software program and even operating streaming video apps, the Atari VCS appears to be like to be extra of an all-in-one leisure machine. From these early particulars, it feels a bit just like the Nvidia Protect, a front room machine that gives entry to each PC and Android video games, video streaming and way more.
Extra particulars on the Atari VCS and its options, video games and hardware are anticipated later in 2019.
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