Exactly. If they think people are going to buy this thing just to play old ass games they're mistaken. Sure it's fun to do on occasion but it's 2018 and people primarily want to play modern games when they plunk down the money for a console. I'm not demanding that the Atari match Xbox or PS4 but it does have to offer something more substantial, so what is it?
I did say that you can play these games easily on any Android phone, didn't I?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.selected.mame4all&hl=en_US
After installing MAME4ALL on Android, all you have to do is upload the game ROMS (found on the internet) into the ROMS folder the app makes on your phone, and then play right on your phone or tablet. On a PC, even one from 1998, it will play just fine as though it were on the console. Those games were rock bottom programming.