Atari returns to the console market, although we do not know when it will be launched, a teaser of its preliminary design and that it used computer hardware has been seen.

Retro lovers are in luck, because Atari CEO Fred Chesnais has informed GameBeat that 'We are back in the hardware business'. Apparently, the historic company in the world of video games, would be working on the development of a new console. It was at the beginning of the week when a mysterious video was published by Atari that has unleashed all kinds of rumors and now we have confirmation that we are talking about a new console.

This teaser allows us to see slightly some sketches of what will be the new design of the new Atari console, which will have a retro look, could have a wood carving and a perforated upper grill made of plastic. It had been suggested that it could be a joke, but now we know that it is real. Chesnais has commented that they have been working on the development for years and that it would have wooden panels, like the ones seen in the video, although it is only a sketch, it would not be the final design. In addition, he has commented that it was based on computer technology, but did not want to specify this point further.

Atari in 2013 declared bankruptcy and Fred Chesnais has managed with a lot of work and effort to reverse the situation. Right now they work on developing mobile games and have even brought some of their classic titles to Steam. Nostalgia has returned and it is an ideal moment, as the return to the market of the NES Classic Mini has well demonstrated. The most interesting of all is that the console would be based on computer hardware and in this field we think of an AMD Raven Ridge APU with Ryzen cores and Vega graphics or some type of NVIDIA SoC that we do not know and that would be in development.