Atari full-year revenue tanks

This news is bad to hear. I personally LOVE Atari. And I'm pretty sure that they will rebound from this. Not everything can be pleasent. I feel sorry for any of the people who were cut off from the company / any game developer employee who is forced out due to losses.... Mark Ecko's game was well.... horrible. So I can see partly why Atari had a tough time. I'm surprised that The Path of Neo failed too. But things go up and down and soon enough another DBZ game (Super DBZ and BT 2) along with other Atari games should help. Go Atari!

"I am cool with a lot posters here at Gamespot but you in particular better steer clear of me from now on. " Hahahahahahahaha!!!! :)

Good! Thank you Lelio316 for being done with me, since I am done with you as well. Face it, you picked the wrong guy to start something with. I am cool with a lot posters here at Gamespot but you in particular better steer clear of me from now on.

"I am sorry Lelio316. I did not know the name of the other dumb a$$es that they sold to. I knew they sold it to someone and I read in a mag in the late '80's that Nolan Bushnell remained as the figure head after the sell for sometime. So I guess that means Time Warner made them a shining example in the game industry right? HELL NO!" Yes, a very warm apology, it made me weep, it really did. I'm done with you dude. Everything you do is something you're giving me hell for, when all I did was correct you. " Did I not say he started Atari's company culture? A company Pioneer will always be given credit on the momentum, strength and direction of a company in some shape or form. It does not make a difference if they continue with them or not. " Yeah, I make assumptions. Go ahead and make yourself feel better with another rant with lots of CAPS and remember to say that you're not yelling at anyone.

Once again Lelio316 you are not reading only assuming. Where did I say I made references to my first comment? I made all of my last set of comments on what you wrote from your first and second comment. Did I not say he started Atari's company culture? A company Pioneer will always be given credit on the momentum, strength and direction of a company in some shape or form. It does not make a difference if they continue with them or not. For example Shigeru Miyamoto will always be given credit as the greatest Nintendo programmer of years to come. Even after he leaves Nintendo someone somewhere will believe that nintendo's failure to re-capture the market will be his fault. Some may say he should not have left, others may say he promoted the kid friendly atmosphere that they are currently unable to shake. Nolan's bad decision making sent the company on a downward spiral that led to the crash. Just because he sold the company does not men that all his employees left too. What he started Warner com. did very little to change. Nolan does not to be there in order to have a lasting impact. "My goodness but you need a pill man." "Please provide ANY information that you can that indicates Bushnell created a "Let's not concentrate on quality" culture....Got any? Didn't think so." "Do you think that temper makes you look cool? " Sounds like an attitude to me. In my first post to you I apologized. I made no belittling comments to you. Yet, you feel the need to take shots at me to appear like you know what you are talking about. Why do you feel the need to do this? I have fun when I write sarcasticly. If you you have a problem with that then stop reading and commenting on my comments. "Wow, you blame others when you aren't clear, and are on a tangent, very mature." I don't blame other others only you. This was started by you. I went into a tangent based on what you said! YOU made all of these silly claims of what I said. Not me. I also pointed out you were only half right with no belittling attitude. I am also very clear. YOU seem to have a problem interpreting my information. So maybe this will be clear: I DID NOT SAY YOU MADE ANY GAME CLAIMS IN YOU 1ST COMMENT. I APOLOGIZED FOR NOT KNOWING WARNER COMMUNICATIONS (not Time warner) BOUGHT THE COMPANY. AND LATTER CORRECTED OYU HALF FACT. ONCE AGAIN, NONE OF MY SARCASMS WERE DIRECTED AT YOU. SAYING CRAP LIKE "My goodness but you need a pill man." AND "Do you think that temper makes you look cool?" WILL ONLY GET THINGS STARTED, ESPECIALLY WHEN I SAID NOTHING TO YOU OF THE SORT. I ALSO ANSWERED YOUR "Please provide ANY information that you can that indicates Bushnell created a "Let's not concentrate on quality" culture....Got any? Didn't think so." THROUGH A BREAKDOWN OF ATARI AND NOLAN BUSHELL. So, you got anymore cheapshots to make you look " very mature"? Otherwise, lets talk games.

Wow, you blame others when you aren't clear, and are on a tangent, very mature. I didn't start a problem. I corrected your entry with no attitude, or judging, or complaining. "Nolan Bushnell and his co-idiots single handedly caused the videogame crash of '84. " Your own timeline shows that that was not true. You attributed something to the man that he was not a part of. From there you extrapolated all of Atari's bad moves, which have nothing to do with your original post. The comment was about Busjnell, not Atari. i didn't defend any of Atari's moves, every one of them was stupid. Trudging them out doesn't mean Bushnell was part of the crash.

Look Lelio316, you must really have some kind of problem. My gripe is not against you but ,it seems you want to pic a fight. I DID NOT SAY YOU MENTIONED ANY GAMES AT ALL. I SAID " PLEASE DON'T TELL ME " . I was being sarcastic. I APOLOGIZED TO YOU BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW THE NAME OF THE OTHER COMPANY. I AM ALSO SORRY YOU ASSUMED ALL COMMENTS WERE DIRECTED TO YOU AND THEY WERE NOT! THEY WERE GENERAL! MY COMMENT TO YOU ENDED AFTER THE APOLOGY. MAYBE I SHOULD HAVE SAID SO. Please provide ANY information that you can that indicates Bushnell created a "Let's not concentrate on quality" culture....Got any? Didn't think so. Did you not read that I mentioned E.T. ? Have you played it? Have you played dodge'em and atari football? You are probably too young to remember this stuff. E.T. has been rated by many magazines as the worst game of all time. And had you seen some of the documentries on G4techtv like, icons you would know Horward Scott Warsharw said he was pressured to make this game in a short amount of time (six weeks) to catch all the movie hoopla. Strike one. Atari ( if you read there website) at one time created "innovative" controllers that people complained broke easily and were difficulty to handle for long periods of time. Mine broke 2 days after I got it. Strike 2. This controller failure was due in part to Atari's habit of largely ignoring product information from test groups. Strike 3. Sounds to me like they don't understand quality. And there is more on top of that. Oh, I checked up on your time warner claim. Warner communications bought Atari in the seventies. It did not merge with Time inc. until 2 years after their merger announcement in '87. So you were only half right. And now Bushnell. Even after the sell he remained with the company until being forced out ,due to company directional differences, in November 1978. He returned to ATARI in 1988 as a marketing attempt to increase sales. He certainly did not help the Atari XE's battle against the NES. Nolan also started over 20 companies in his lifetime. Corporations value ( and keep) CEO's that make their companies top stock purchases. A guy that moves around that much has little value. A jack of all trades ,a master of none is what they say. All of my extreme sarcasm and down-rating does not come from your silly idea of " thinking that your temper makes you look cool". I love the USA and I am bothered that we started the videogame industry but probably won't finish it on top due to the "quantity over quality" attitude we held in the '80's. Its changing, but slowly. I do not like commenting on other comments. So next time you feel the need to start a problem or take offense at someone elses comments, read all of it and ask questions first. Find out why think the way they do and you may find out that you completely misunderstand them.

Also I think Test Drive Unlimited looks damn good...adds alot of elements to your standard racer that you dont see in other games

"am sorry Lelio316. I did not know the name of the other dumb a$$es that they sold to. I knew they sold it to someone and I read in a mag in the late '80's that Nolan Bushnell remained as the figure head after the sell for sometime. So I guess that means Time Warner made them a shining example in the game industry right? HELL NO! Please don't tell me games like Area 51 and Primal Rage are hall of fame nominees. Time Warner made a lot of crappy nap time hits too. Bushnell started a company culture that said " Lets not concentrate on quality. Let's just pump any and everything out." Thats how we got E.T. the game and .... Chumpy Cheese now that I think about it . That trend continues even today. They ALL just plain suck! " My goodness but you need a pill man. Where did I mention any games and make any claims about them? Did I say that TW didn't put out any crappy games? Please provide ANY information that you can that indicates Bushnell created a "Let's not concentrate on quality" culture....Got any? Didn't think so. ALL, i said...and NOTHING else, was that Bushnell was gone from Atari when the crash occured, and he was. He'd been running "Chumpy Cheese" and only relenquished his daily duties in 1983 (at CC) to move on to his next vnture, which was NOT Atari. He'd been gone for a long time. Do you think that temper makes you look cool?

I am sorry Lelio316. I did not know the name of the other dumb a$$es that they sold to. I knew they sold it to someone and I read in a mag in the late '80's that Nolan Bushnell remained as the figure head after the sell for sometime. So I guess that means Time Warner made them a shining example in the game industry right? ;) HELL NO! Please don't tell me games like Area 51 and Primal Rage are hall of fame nominees. Time Warner made a lot of crappy nap time hits too. Bushnell started a company culture that said " Lets not concentrate on quality. Let's just pump any and everything out." Thats how we got E.T. the game and .... Chumpy Cheese now that I think about it . That trend continues even today. They ALL just plain suck!

"Nolan Bushnell and his co-idiots single handedly caused the videogame crash of '84. " Bushnell sold Atari to Time Warner in the 70's.

Too bad for them. $.60 on the Nasdaq is nothing to be proud of, can't even be optimistic with that number. Oh well, sh*t happens.

Parallel Lines isn't all that bad. I think people need to get off the GTA syndrome. I'm rather enjoying it, myself. I also planned on picking up Getting Up in the near future as well.

its all good.

HAHAHAHA! Let me continue the chorus started by a lot of commenters: ATARI SUCKS !!!!!! Now to set the record straight once again, for all of you that keep stating Atari is not the same company that it was when Nolan Bushnell owned it : IT DOES NOT MATTER! Atari is synonymous with crap games point blank ,period, end of story. infrogrames deserves the stupid a$$ award for even attempting to make the Atari name mean something. Nolan Bushnell and his co-idiots single handedly caused the videogame crash of '84. Then they sold the company to some other dumb a$$es and I am suppose to think of old atari as better or different? Yeah right. They are all nothing but a bunch of freakin' morons tried to peddle crap off as "quality" games.

Their games aren't all that bad, Getting Up wasn't bad, stuff like NWN were great. I don't understand all the hate. Every company releases some bad games

"Hah!, Infogrames, hiding under the Atari name don't work. Once rubbish always rubbish. " Well said.

I would like to see em on XBLA

Quote K1llswitch: Even if Atari agreed to put their old games on Xbox Live Arcade, it still wouldn't save them due to the fact that not many people want to play those old games again. Gamers are looking for something new, something fresh. That is why they put their old games on emulation, where you purchase a disc with 300 plus games on it, for cheap. Seriously though, who is going to spend $2- $5 for Pac-Man or Joust. Not many. Did you not read the posts before you!!!! Clearly you didnt or you would realize that the atari that is doing bad is not the orginal atari with all those old games. Not to mention the fact that namco owns pac-man NOT ATARI and midway owns the gaunlet legend series and joust NOT ATARI. And your a fool if you think that people dont like old school games. Collections like Namco museum and midway arcade treasures sell a great deal. I work at a game store and you dont understand how much games like that sell. And xbox live arcade has been doing well particulary with certain games. And I can't wait personally for the revolution...yes i still call it that cause that other name is terrible. But I can't wait to play the old school games super nintendo has easily been my favorite game console and still to this day I say it is the best one ever made. With playstation 1 coming in close second because of all the amazing rpgs and different style games that came on it. Each of these systems had amazing game libaries that i feel have never been achieved yet by the newer consoles. So yes I can't wait to play the old school nintendo games just like many many others can't wait as well. Look at Super Mario on the DS. Not excactly fresh its very much taking from the old mario games. But it is selling like crazy cause its just a great FUN game. The DS is easily the console that has been coming out with some great games that are just fun and inovative.

Hah!, Infogrames, hiding under the Atari name don't work. Once rubbish always rubbish.

They published Neverwinter Nights, which I liked a lot.

For years now, Atari hasn't released anything that is worth buying. The only major title that they have is the Gaunlet series, which suck. At least this time if they do go down in the history books again, they won't take the industry with them this time around. Even if Atari agreed to put their old games on Xbox Live Arcade, it still wouldn't save them due to the fact that not many people want to play those old games again. Gamers are looking for something new, something fresh. That is why they put their old games on emulation, where you purchase a disc with 300 plus games on it, for cheap. Seriously though, who is going to spend $2- $5 for Pac-Man or Joust. Not many.

Atari need release all their old classics on Xbox Live Arcade. That would definately help them out.

They haven't put out anything good for a long time that I can recall. I did think Enter the Matrix was fun while it lasted and LITTLE KNOWN FACT that game supported 1080i HD on Xbox 1! (yea not 360)

I haven't played Atari games in a long time, and I see no reason to.

Getting Up was a lousy game... and The Path of Neo? Ugh...

Really bad news for Atari... they have been producing some interesting games lately and I thought that the Dragon Ball games could help the company. I hope that the new layout for the company woks out. It would be a shame to lose a company like Atari.

That is a Huge hit. They make Majesco stock look good. Atari Sucks is a little strong. They have published a lot of good games but like many they have fallen on hard times. Besides why all the hating? Did Atari hurt you? Do their games make fun of you? Get over yourselves.

Getting Up was a really good game. I thought more people would buy it.

QUOTE: They should hurry up with their next game in the unreal tournament series if they want to stay in business" Midway scooped the Unreal license a while back bro. And Vivendi grabbed TimeShift.

make a mix of DBZ and MK and maybe they'll sell a few copies

They should hurry up with their next game in the unreal tournament series if they want to stay in business

thats alot of money to lose

Quote from runstalker: 'On a positive note, if they're going down - I say props to [new] Atari for taking on riskier projects like Indigo Prophecy during its lifetime. Proof of some intelligent decision makers over there. Unlike the ones green-lighting the last couple of Driver games. Their PC-only games have been generally quite good as well (Act of War, Dragonshard, upcoming NWN 2).' Here here

I don't know why companies keep trying to buy the name "Atari." Infogames is like the 4th owner since the original group started. Maybe 5th. The name has absolutely no value anymore. Then again, it's not like a whole lot of good software has been made under the Atari banner in the last decade...

On a positive note, if they're going down - I say props to [new] Atari for taking on riskier projects like Indigo Prophecy during its lifetime. Proof of some intelligent decision makers over there. Unlike the ones green-lighting the last couple of Driver games. Their PC-only games have been generally quite good as well (Act of War, Dragonshard, upcoming NWN 2).

i just want then to be around till they release NWN 2 and after i i dont care what happens to them,their games suck(especially on this generation) and thgen dont have any other franchises that i care about.....

still, most of the games suck

Note: this is not the original Atari. The old school Atari company and all of its original members and developers completely dispersed many years ago. Current "Atari" is the French company Infogrames, re-named. They literally purchased the Atari brand and rights to several of its properties and re-named itself in an effort to connect with a larger audience. So all the predictable forthcoming lamentations for old school Atari are about a decade too late.

It's sad if anyone loses their job, but honestly, Atari games suck.

they should make the jaguar 2 hehehehe

damn, that's depressing.

"A shortage of new hardware coupled with a softness in consumer demand for current generation games dramatically impacted results." Don't you just mean "We can't make good games"? $.60 a share on the NasDaq? How do they manage to even stay in business? Who will be dumb enough to invest in Atari?

I dont care. Atari sucks.

Poor Atari you were a great friend....You will be mised.

NWN2 will only succeed if they launch the DM client shortly after the game is released. There are a lot of NWN community members eager to get this game, but if it launches with bugs and if the toolset doesn't live up to the hype, then Atari will feel the wrath of that gaming community.

atari will be ok as soon as NWN 2 hit the shelves..