[deaddodo]

Man, I remember learning that the VCS/2600 had successors well after there time and was like "gee, I wonder how powerful those were". The difference between a 2600 and 5200 is a small step up, and the 5200 to 7800 is damn near imperceptible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKMXi1lAVow

Atari just never did....anything. It's so obvious in retrospect why the died.

[bluGill]

The 5200 was essential the 8 bit Atari computer hardware on the inside. The controllers were different, and no keyboard, but almost exactly the same (IIRC one graphics mode was different in their GPU [not related to the GPU of today]). The 8 bit XEGS of 1987 was the same hardware as computer.

They did have some interesting handhelds in later years, but didn't have enough good ideas to make them catch on.