Atari faces lawsuit against Tin Giant over not paying for six months worth of work on the Atari VCS
Atari appears to be facing a lawsuit, after allegedly not paying for over $250,000 dollars worth of work done for their crowdfunded Atari VCS system. Rob Wyatt, system architect for the original Xbox and designer for the PlayStation 3's graphical system, has filed against Atari for both defamation and breach of contract over his company, Tin Giant. Wyatt had previously quit working on the Atari VCS back in October of 2019, stating that he and his team had not been paid a previously agreed-upon amount of $261,720 for designing the VCS system.
The Atari VCS was originally announced as the Ataribox in 2017--a living-room PC that would run on a Linux OS, allowing users to play games, watch videos, or even "develop TV-based games and apps for yourself, your family, or to share". The project would go on to be delayed multiple times, after missing its original Q2 2019 launch window. Over 3 million dollars was raised for the Atari VCS, through crowdfunding platform Indiegogo.
Wyatt also claims that he and his team were wrongly blamed for the delay of the system, with Atari saying Tin Giant pushed the project back, when it was allegedly "Atari's own mismanagement that was the cause of or reason for the delayed launch". Atari currently has not yet commented on the matter.
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