Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

In what is sure to be one of the least hopeful moves in console play in 2020 , Atari has partnered with a companionship calledUltra Gamingto offer blockchain - based game cyclosis to its forthcomingVCSconsole .

The legendary Atari VCS has long been a bit of playfulness vaporware that is currently suffering fromshipping issuesafter promise delivery in March 2020 . This unexampled partnership – one of many that the company has denote over the past few months – aims to supply Ultra ’s digital downloads to the console .

Unlike other game deliverance avail , Ultra is promising digital possession through cryptographic signing . This means , in hypothesis , you could resell a biz you ’ve quit take on and pay for games in Ultra or Atari ’s own digital currency . In other discussion , if you change console table – or turn a loss your data – your games are lost .

Photo: Ultra

Blockchain companies love partnership like this one and they sleep together partners who will annunciate anything for a buck . This partnership goosed theUltra keepsake price – the cost of its private cryptocurrency – from 13 cent to 17 cent .

The games , to be readable , bet either false , awful , or both .

This is not to disparage the total idea of blockchain - based gaming . In hypothesis , the approximation could have legs . Imagine , for example , a virtual world in which you could give or trade a virtual cartridge or videodisc to someone who can then “ introduce ” it into their own practical console – which they also “ own , ” virtually . It ’s far - fetched but practicable , but I doubt Atari and this Ultra crew are the folks to take out it off .

Screenshot: Ultra