{"id":6610,"date":"2017-10-24T11:18:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T01:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:33:25","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T02:33:25","slug":"could-snaps-spectacles-be-the-new-atari-et-cartridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/could-snaps-spectacles-be-the-new-atari-et-cartridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Snap’s Spectacles be the new Atari ET cartridge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Information reports that Snap expected demand for Spectacles to continue after the holidays and ordered \u201chundreds of thousands\u201d of additional units. But after it opened sales to a wider audience, that didn\u2019t happen, and those units are now reported to be sitting around in warehouses, unsold.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those unfamiliar with the Atari ET cartridge saga<\/a>, here’s the heavily abridged version… Atari made manufactured a lot of copies of a game that was absolutely awful and then buried them in the desert.<\/em><\/p>\n

Snap, now encumbered with a warehouse full of unwanted Spectacles probably aren’t<\/em> going to bury them in the desert but they do need to do something with them all. That and find something for their 150-strong “hardware” team to do.<\/p>\n

Source: Snap reportedly stuck with \u2018hundreds of thousands’ of unsold Spectacles – The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Information reports that Snap expected demand for Spectacles to continue after the holidays and ordered \u201chundreds of…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}