>As a company they seem to be stuck in 8-bit mode.
Because there never was "one" Atari company, there were several eras behind the name (summed up) :
* the "Bushnell" Atari (Atari Inc.) that made the original Xyzzy/Atari arcade games & groundwork on the VCS ;
* the "Warner" Atari ("a Warner Communications Company") that brought you the VCS and 8 bit until the XLs & 5800 ;
* the "Tramiel" Atari (Atari Corporation) that brought you the XE and most importantly the ST, which was the last attempt at "computers for the masses" ;
* the "Infogrames" Atari (Atari SA) which is a completely different company gathering the copyright ashes from the Jaguar überfail and attempting to reunite the whole Atari Games/Midway mess ;
* the "current" Atari (Atari Inc, legally under Atari SA) which is overtly focusing on retrogaming & funding initiatives like Nightdive remasters.
During the end of the Corporation era (after sacrificing the Falcon & Sparrow project in favor of the Jaguar, which is arguably the worst mistake they ever made), they made some PC clones, but as someone said : too little, too late.
Because there never was "one" Atari company, there were several eras behind the name (summed up) :
* the "Bushnell" Atari (Atari Inc.) that made the original Xyzzy/Atari arcade games & groundwork on the VCS ;
* the "Warner" Atari ("a Warner Communications Company") that brought you the VCS and 8 bit until the XLs & 5800 ;
* the "Tramiel" Atari (Atari Corporation) that brought you the XE and most importantly the ST, which was the last attempt at "computers for the masses" ;
* the "Infogrames" Atari (Atari SA) which is a completely different company gathering the copyright ashes from the Jaguar überfail and attempting to reunite the whole Atari Games/Midway mess ;
* the "current" Atari (Atari Inc, legally under Atari SA) which is overtly focusing on retrogaming & funding initiatives like Nightdive remasters.
During the end of the Corporation era (after sacrificing the Falcon & Sparrow project in favor of the Jaguar, which is arguably the worst mistake they ever made), they made some PC clones, but as someone said : too little, too late.