https://www.ign.com/articles/prime-day-discount-drives-2475-spike-in-atari-7800-sales-at-amazon

She won

>>715223932 (OP)
2000% of zero issues still zero.

>>715224005
I still want the VCS version

>>715224083
Then its not an increase retard

>>715223932 (OP)
We are SO BACK.

>>715224005

>>715223932 (OP)
>not 2600%
Missed opportunity

What's the actual number?

Let's goooooo

>>715223932 (OP)
It has to be a lie, why would anyone buy something from a dead company with zero games.

>>715224609
2,475%?

>>715224668
What do you mean

>>715224510
Buy more anon

>>715224667

>>715223932 (OP)
Groovy
>This years
My standards for grammar aren't high usually but I would expect better from a big journo outlet

>>715224668
They bought out Nightdive (for some fucking reason) and somehow are making enough to not be dead. I don't get it.

>>715223932 (OP)
This is the biggest retvrn to tradition I have seen in a minute

>>715226505
They own like 20 studios

>>715226505
They always managed to do something to not die.
I dunno what the fuck are they doing to manage that

>>715228202
Laundering money

>>715224668
But enough about Sony.

>>715229086
Kek

>>715228202
They aren't. Atari has actually died multiple times. Its just that different companies keep buying the name for cheap once the previous company dies and renaming themselves Atari only to repeat the cycle.
The original Atari split into two entities in 1984, Atari Corporation and Atari Games. The original Atari effectively died in 1996. From there the licensing for Atari was spun off in two directions. The games division became Midway Games, which died in 2010. The corporate assets (owned by JT Storage at the time) were bought by Hasbro, which created a new subdivision called Atari Interactive. This was basically defunct by 2001 when Infogrames SA bought Hasbro and its games division became Infogrames Interactive. This was renamed to Atari Interactive in 2003. Another subsidiary of Infogrames SA, Infogrames Inc (formerly GT Interactive), was renamed to Atari Inc. that same year. Then in 2009 Infogrames SA renamed itself to Atari SA. Atari SA then nearly died in 2013, but barely managed to hang on.
So to sum it up, there are now currently at least 3 different companies all names Atari, none of which have any actual connection to the original Atari that made video games beyond being called Atari. The actual legacy of Atari's games was with Midway, Midway died and all its game rights were bought by Warner Bros Games, which is actively in the process of killing itself.

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>>715231652
What a fucking mess, holy shit.

>>715224805
>$130 for something with the hardware equivalent of a toy you'd get at the dollar store

>>715224005
Not Atari

>>715223932 (OP)
Okay, in all seriousness: why?
I refuse to believe that there's that kind of nostalgia out there for the 7800. Is it because, like the original, it's backward compatible?
The 7800 was an utterly crap console that was obsolete when it was released. And not just in a Nintendo Switch kind of way, but in a dead-on-arrival, you're-going-to-be-bullied-for-having-one kind of way.
It's not completely a lost cause, I suppose. The ports of Dig Dug and Ms Pac Man were decent, the Double Dragon port is serviceable, and Impossible Mission isn't bad. But I also wouldn't go back and play any of these today, not even emulated, and certainly not for the price.
And I say this as someone who actually owned one back in the late 80s.

>>715234403
Probably Atari collectors looking for replacement parts

>>715234403
the 7800 was on par with the NES which was the only major system out at the time (1986). People thought it was mechanically inferior because 90% of the games were just rereleases of 2600 games, which massively undersold what it could do. Imagine if most games for the PS2 were just budget rereleases of PS1 titles.

>>715224668
People still make Atari games to this day. Picked this one up a few days ago and I've been really enjoying it.

>>715233710
It plays real cartridges. I do agree $130 is a bit steep though. They should sell for $50 like the used to back in the 80s.

>>715235969
None of the parts are interchangeable. The 7800 is half the size of the original and is just an ARM based emulation box internally.

Damn I missed the deal... I'll bookmark it though.

>>715234403
I just think the 7800 and Atari consoles in general are neat. They've got an entirely different philosophy and design language from the Japanese consoles that took over the market.

Didn't the 7800 only end up with like 50 games much of which were arcade ports?

>>715223932 (OP)
2,475 copies sold

>>715237495
There's a lot of homebrew stuff for it, and Atari is making new games for the new console along with licensing the homebrew games. I think they're also finishing and releasing some old prototypes.

>>715234403
I never grew up with Atari stuff, I just find their stuff to be pretty interesting and a grand majority of their old games are still pretty fun

It says 1000+ sold on Amazon. Someone else do the math for how much it sells normally to translate to a 2475% increase.

>>715238149
The lowest number it could possibly be is 40, but that says 1000+, so it could easily be higher. What's the time span we're talking about here anyways? Is this per month? Per week? Per day?

>>715224005
palp

>>715238275
Amazon does it by month and if it was 2000+ it probably would have said so so I can trust that it's less than that. I'm not sure they do hundreds after getting into thousands.

>>715224005
mama