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Welp, back with more news. Looks like Atari decided to hire Rob Wyatt and Tin Giant to work on the VCS. They are being hired as hardware engineers. By all accounts Wyatt and his company are pretty damn good at what they do. Great news, right? Well...Maybe?
So....They were going to open up pre-orders last year before "something went wrong" and they delayed them. Yet here they are, six months later, and are just now hiring a hardware design firm. They have never shown off a working system, they have never shown anything working on actual hardware, and apparently they didn't even have a design firm ready before opening pre-orders. Either that or things went so catastrophically bad that they needed to hire outside help to fix their shit. Neither is exactly a good sign. Really leads me to believe that Atari needs the money from the indiegogo campaign in order to even finish the VCS, which would mean they're not exactly being truthful about the purpose of the campaign. Also means that there is no way in hell that the 2.9 currently raised is going to be enough to cover everything.
To add some positive light to this: Bringing in Wyatt and Tin Giant should mean good things for the final product, whenever it appears, they bring a lot of design expertise and skill with them to the project.
So....They were going to open up pre-orders last year before "something went wrong" and they delayed them. Yet here they are, six months later, and are just now hiring a hardware design firm. They have never shown off a working system, they have never shown anything working on actual hardware, and apparently they didn't even have a design firm ready before opening pre-orders. Either that or things went so catastrophically bad that they needed to hire outside help to fix their shit. Neither is exactly a good sign. Really leads me to believe that Atari needs the money from the indiegogo campaign in order to even finish the VCS, which would mean they're not exactly being truthful about the purpose of the campaign. Also means that there is no way in hell that the 2.9 currently raised is going to be enough to cover everything.
To add some positive light to this: Bringing in Wyatt and Tin Giant should mean good things for the final product, whenever it appears, they bring a lot of design expertise and skill with them to the project.