E3 06: Atari cuts prices

Indigo Prophecy, Marc Ecko's Getting Up, rest of publisher's current-gen catalog to sell for $19.99 effective June 1.

LOS ANGELES--While attendees visited Atari's booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo this week to get a look at games like Test Drive Unlimited and Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, the publisher announced that previous installments in those series, along with the bulk of its catalog, would soon be subject to sweeping price cuts.

Starting June 1 at participating retailers, all of Atari's existing PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and Game Boy Advance games will carry a $19.99 price point as part of the company's new GamersFirst program. The publisher's PC titles are also included in the program--with the exception of the recently released massively multiplayer game Dungeons & Dragons Online--and will be available for download at the new price point from Valve Software (presumably through its Steam service) and Direct2Drive.

101 Comments

  • jakeboudville

    Posted Aug 26, 2006 9:41 pm PT

    cool

  • thongzilla

    Posted Jul 5, 2006 9:35 am PT

    20.00 bucks is 20.00 bucks does'nt mean the game sucks or that the game is great. When in doubt buy USED GAMES!!!!. As far as Atari going under WHO CARES!!! There will always be crappy games and other companies biting the dust.

  • alpha_company

    Posted Jun 2, 2006 3:56 pm PT

    Yahooo. Btw, I don't play any of the games mentioned anyways...

  • UchihaNajib

    Posted May 18, 2006 4:42 pm PT

    i knew it, thank god i didnt spend 50+ dollers on it

  • thesineater

    Posted May 17, 2006 8:31 pm PT

    Like I said in atleast 3 different comments. It does not make any differnce who buys the Atari name! The last thing any struggling videogame company that make crap games should do is buy the name of an even worse crap game company. All they end up doing is increasing their persona of crappiness . You couldn't pay me 50 bucks to be associated with Atari right now!

  • Dust24311

    Posted May 17, 2006 5:38 am PT

    Sweet. I'll be interested in seeing how their sales go. I'm hoping they go well, as a lesson to all other publishers!

  • Manhattan212

    Posted May 16, 2006 4:55 pm PT

    i'm going to get Getting Up

  • SavoyPrime

    Posted May 16, 2006 1:59 pm PT

    This is a good chance for those who didn't buy Indigo Prophecy yet.

  • chrisdojo

    Posted May 16, 2006 11:29 am PT

    cool. where's a list of all the games?

  • Leandro29

    Posted May 16, 2006 10:12 am PT

    I have this games

  • classicwhiteguy

    Posted May 16, 2006 7:04 am PT

    that's good news...well not so good news for atari...cause i think that their going out of buiness in the near future unless thay come out with some good games..

  • ewjim

    Posted May 16, 2006 3:36 am PT

    Good news for all! ...Maybe except the Atari

  • townsenda1

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:14 pm PT

    Time to shop Atari.

  • DevJin

    Posted May 15, 2006 9:52 pm PT

    great.

  • ryokinshin

    Posted May 15, 2006 8:42 pm PT

    indigo prophecy, a classic id say

  • pyth0n13

    Posted May 15, 2006 7:48 pm PT

    now i'm gonna go try indigo prophecy

  • alberto2045

    Posted May 15, 2006 7:33 pm PT

    cool i guess since i dont like so many of those games

  • Fallout_red

    Posted May 15, 2006 7:32 pm PT

    Hopefully more people will play Indigo Prophecy, truly a masterpiece.

  • ApostleOne

    Posted May 15, 2006 7:23 pm PT

    Weeeakk.. I reserved and bought Getting Up: Limited Edition for $50 when it came out... Oh well, i'm still satisfied =). Go play it, now!

  • xXAdventChildXx

    Posted May 15, 2006 6:12 pm PT

    Awesome

  • rbarahona

    Posted May 15, 2006 5:59 pm PT

    Very nice, I think that they want all their stock out so they can make some profit with those games and start working on the next-gen platforms.

  • tr00pa_26

    Posted May 15, 2006 5:19 pm PT

    the games are cool...ahahahaha all those hard work for only 20 bucks

  • mariomaniac92

    Posted May 15, 2006 5:08 pm PT

    Atari? They still make games?

  • vashkilla

    Posted May 15, 2006 4:16 pm PT

    nice now i can get GETTING UP : CONTENETS UNDER PRESSURE

  • comthitnuong

    Posted May 15, 2006 3:44 pm PT

    sweet

  • mclazyj

    Posted May 15, 2006 3:41 pm PT

    To the poster that asked why Indigo Prophecy was called Fahrenheit in Europe, it was suppose to be called Fahrenheit in the US, but a copyright issue was cause for a name change. And the European version is better, because of less censorship. But it did cost me a few extra bucks, but I get a censor free version of the PC game and it was on DVD to boot.

  • EvanO_O

    Posted May 15, 2006 3:02 pm PT

    YES! I can finally pick up Indigo Prophecy!

  • kaziechameleon

    Posted May 15, 2006 2:42 pm PT

    now i can buy indigo prophecy. yeah.

  • NandoSupes

    Posted May 15, 2006 2:16 pm PT

    20 bucks for a game?, sweet

  • smbius

    Posted May 15, 2006 2:09 pm PT

    Yikes

  • cesarotromundo

    Posted May 15, 2006 1:53 pm PT

    yea.. Im not wasting a penny on ANY current-gen game thats not portable.

  • ThaGhost2823

    Posted May 15, 2006 1:24 pm PT

    Great, now we can get Getting Up and Driver: Parallel Lines at a reasonable price.

  • somesthetic

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:53 am PT

    Indigo Prophecy was a very bad game. sure, it was novel, but the story was ridiculous and the gameplay was repetitive.

  • EBWCLIF

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:47 am PT

    Is that a fat lady I hear singing? Goodbye Atari.

  • WolfSkill5544

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:42 am PT

    Yay!!! I can finally get indigo prophecy

  • firefruze

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:31 am PT

    meh, Getting Up sucked anyway.

  • sitgom

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:24 am PT

    This would have been cool except i am not an Atrari fan.

  • NeoDreamAddict

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:24 am PT

    I have been wanting to pick up Indigo Prophecy, so this will give me a good reason to go ahead and grab it.

  • slipshoddoa

    Posted May 15, 2006 10:07 am PT

    The Atari that started the videogame revolution died (finally) after the Jaguar flopped way back in the early 90s. This "Atari" is the US division of Infogrames and has no relationship to the original Atari. The French company bought the name from Hasbro in a fire sale, and used it because the name had some recognition plus the name "Infogrames" was despised outside of Europe.

  • haggisbag

    Posted May 15, 2006 9:36 am PT

    For those of you wishing that Atari would just fold, that will just push us that much closer to a Microsoft stranglehold on gaming, where you only have Xbox 360 and Vista, and the price of games will be cheap at $60.

  • sidious

    Posted May 15, 2006 9:25 am PT

    Yeah, Indigo Prophecy was a good little game... and way worth you $20, no doubt... Does this mean the new Driver is gonna be $20 (didn't Atari put that out??)

  • skemaal

    Posted May 15, 2006 6:12 am PT

    Proves once again that sales are going down everywhere in the business. A 19.99$ psychological price point should bring sales up a bit - unit wise - . Should also help a little bit with illegal copies. In any case, 2006 is going to be a bad year for game sales. Time for some new innovations instead for the gazillionth shooter, WWII game and strategy game.

    Thank god for Pokemon. OK OK I`M JUST KIDDING LOL!

  • LosDaddie

    Posted May 15, 2006 5:31 am PT

    Atari needs to do something for these games to sell.

  • greatcamel

    Posted May 15, 2006 5:30 am PT

    It needs more main stream games, I don't see why I would want to play "getting up"

  • aabii

    Posted May 14, 2006 10:35 pm PT

    D&D online is not included, that was an exception stated in the article. Indigo prophecy looked like a great one though for $20...

  • bebebebebebe123

    Posted May 14, 2006 10:19 pm PT

    Not a bad idea after all.
    19.99 is way better than 39.99...
    HAHA.

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