Here’s Atari’s different to the Nvidia Shield in all its wood-panelled, retro-aesthetic glory

They’ve used the old-fashioned Atari console design notes to create the Ataribox’s aesthetic, riffing on the enduring wood-panelling and ribbed floor. The two totally different designs for the console appear to revolve round both having a black glass panel within the entrance, with a pink Atari emblem, or a picket entrance with a white emblem.

Aside from the look of the factor Atari haven’t made another bulletins about what precisely they’re making. But, given the very fact the rear panel is sporting 4 USB ports, a HDMI connection, SD slot, and ethernet port, it’s evidently going to have fashionable internals. 

Atari do, nevertheless, say they’re not simply creating the Ataribox for old-school gaming goodness. “While we will be delivering classic gaming content, we will also be delivering current gaming content.”

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To our thoughts, that might recommend we’re both speaking a couple of mini PC console or a little bit Android field, a la Nvidia’s Shield. Realistically it’s extra probably the latter, however that might nonetheless make it a improbable recreation streaming field to get your desktop PC video games down into your lounge, particularly if they will undercut Nvidia on the pricing.