Originally Posted by
Steve W
With these license holders for the Atari name, they're expecting everybody to pay a fortune for what I'm sure is a Linux-based OS on top of okay-ish hardware, and now that they've screwed the pooch so badly everybody can bypass the expensive hardware and run the OS on any crappy machine. They've stumbled so badly, I'll be shocked if this thing is still around a year after launch. One of their biggest financial streams, the hardware, is now irrelevant. Once people figure out how to install the OS and drop in their own ROMs the VCS will be dead in the water.