Atari and Activision Are Re-Releasing Almost 40 Physical Atari 2600 Games | Retro Handhelds
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Atari and Activision are re-releasing 39 Atari 2600 games on physical cartridges, starting with a 10-game Treasure Collection priced at $249.99.
  • HumanOnEarth@lemmy.caEnglish
    1 month

    Right idea, wroooooong pricing.

    Yes physical media is now on the upswing again. But it doesn’t get a novelty surcharge like a fucking current gen lineup.

    You make it like 100, 200 and 500 you’re going to get way more gross sales. I can’t imagine inputs are very high for this, at all.

    If I was them, I’d push hard with this with better pricing, and then work on a modern physical console with gameplay as the focus and graphics as the lowest priority.

    That’s how you bring back the golden age of gaming.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1 month

      I can’t imagine inputs are very high for this, at all.

      The tooling for the cartridges is probably only a few bucks a unit at absolute most. And most of that is in plastic injection molding. The entire 2600 memory stack can be condensed onto a microscopic IC these days as they werent more than 64kb in bank switching, and bringing the already developed code over is an intern’s weekend project.

      This is a massive nostalgia-powered money grab.