Atari Flashback... whaaahuh?

[syzygy]

http://www.atari.com/us/games/atari_flashback/7800


looks pretty cool but It would have been great if they had included Robotron (with a two joystick holder :-P :-P ) and Xevious :-P. Another thing, why did they not include a cartridge slot, that would have been great.

[Nuadha]

It would have been great if this had included a cartridge slot, but I seriously doubt they would have ever done it.

[Flack]

Someone already mentioned it here:
Atari Flashback (New Hardware from Atari)
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41141

Which will lead you to the original discussion here:
Atari Anthology for PS2, XBox
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41095

Jump on in that last thread, fellas. I'm interested to find out what you all think of this thing!

[Sniderman]

Cartridge slot? Bad idea. Before you grab the pitchforks, think about this - who would the slot be for? Sure, it'd be gret to those of us who HAVE carts for such a device. But Atari's not gonna want to re-enter the cart-production field.

A stand-alone console is great for a game company because you release it and -BLAM - it's done. A console that needs new games and applications is a resource-killer as you need programmers, designers, etc. CONSTANTLY churning out new product to feed the console. And if no one's buying the carts, that's a whole lot of wasted resources. At least if a stand-alone fails, it's done and over.

And since this is being discussed in the two threads above, please begin posting there. Other message boards apparently have 6 or 7 seperate threads on this same subject. :eek 2: I'll lock this one and point y'all to the other threads. Thanks.