Atari to Refocus on Premium PC/Console Games Rather Than F2P/Mobile

Atari is once more shifting its focus in the gaming industry, equally announced in a press release issued this forenoon. This time, it's moving back towards premium PC and panel games and abroad from free-to-play mobile games.

Wade J. Rosen, CEO and largest shareholder of the Group, said:

Our intent with any gaming experience is to provide accesible and joyful moments of meaningful play. That'south the core of Atari and what binds our history with our future. To that stop, nosotros feel that premium gaming is meliorate representative of this type of gaming experience and the Atari DNA. Despite this new focus on premium gaming, we remain committed to growing and expanding our successful free-to-play games that we accept in the market.

These changes will impact our 2020/21 financials and will generate a 5 one thousand thousand euro write-off for the financial year ending March 31st, 2021. This reorientation will requite Atari a unique opportunity to exist the bridge between the by and the hereafter of video games, and I await frontwards to driving these changes.

The following gratis-to-play games will exist discontinued or sold: RCT Stories, Crystal Castles, Castles & Catapults, Ninja Golf, Atari Gainsay: Tank Fury. Others that proved to be more successful will continue to exist operated. Atari volition also go out the Casino business organization it had in Africa, while the Television set Show business organisation avails will also be written downwards as the company aims to license its backdrop in the time to come.

With the reallocation of these resource, Atari intends to leverage its huge catalog of 200 intellectual properties to build premium games to exist released on all platforms. The first wave of games is already in evolution and scheduled to be released in the financial year 2021/2022.

Of course, the new games will also strengthen the offer of the Atari VCS entertainment organization, which was finally released nearly three weeks ago in the United States after years of development.

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