Atari Gets Cold Feet About E3
Atari the team bringing, Ghostbusters: The Video Game has announced they will not be attending E3. This comes as a big surprise considering the visibility of Ghostbusters and E3 just being a few weeks away.
Officially Atari has played this off as being apart of a larger strategy, but it’s hard not to assume somewhere finances have something to do with this.
“Atari has made the proactive decision to attend but not exhibit at this year’s E3 event. Although we feel E3 benefits the entire games business, we are very focused around other selling and marketing initiatives for our upcoming Ghostbusters, Champions Online and other to be announced titles.”
- Atari PR representitive
E3 is about the most important event in the industry. Why do you think they pulled out?
12 Responses to “Atari Gets Cold Feet About E3”
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May 12th, 2009 at 11:41 PM
Because nobody plays their 2600 anymore?
May 13th, 2009 at 12:11 AM
no one cares about them.. they havent kept up with the times in AGES.. everything a huge flop
May 13th, 2009 at 2:09 AM
I don’t blame them. Those proton packs are heavy to cart around. Plus having every second person walk up to your booth and say “He slimed me” gets a little bit dull after a while.
May 13th, 2009 at 7:43 AM
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May 13th, 2009 at 7:46 AM
Because they make games that don’t do well overall… The games they make well they end up handling wrong…. Atari just doesn’t have a very good following IMO.
I could be wrong but I have a bad taste in my mouth between atari and DBZ games… I forget which ones they made though.
May 13th, 2009 at 7:53 AM
So much hate for the folks who brought us so much, on a sidenot I didn’t expect them to bet there anyway.
May 13th, 2009 at 8:35 AM
they run out of money??? lol, put all their eggs in one basket and hope it does good (ghostbusters)
May 13th, 2009 at 8:51 AM
cheapskates…
May 13th, 2009 at 9:51 AM
Mmmuh-oh! NOW who am I gonna call when something’s strange in my neighborhood?
May 13th, 2009 at 11:43 AM
o well. looks like we will have to wait for some ghostbusters demo footage.
May 13th, 2009 at 4:19 PM
Their games suck. (excluding ghostbusters)
May 13th, 2009 at 6:39 PM
That’s too bad.