An interview with Atari CEO Bruno Bonnell has been summed up for us at GamesIndustry regarding Atari's decision to leave the PS3 alone until 2007, possibly near 2008. Bonnell brought up two pretty serious reasons for staying away from Sony's new console. One, he said, "It's just that we're lacking information about the PS3 at this stage, because we have basically a rough release date and a high retail price point." Seems Atari didn't get one of the 10,000 ugly dev kits, or they haven't had time to work with it.Bonnell also feels Sony is targeting the hardcore, passionate gamer market with the PS3 (and all those Atari collections won't feel at home on the PS3... poor Joust). Atari is currently planning on releasing some games for the 360 and the Wii this holiday season. Possibly some XBox Live Arcade titles if they want to push their classics (this could also be done on PS3's online service, but that's moot since it technically doesn't exist yet). If you want to read the full interview, check out the original article and there's a link to it at the bottom. Most of it doesn't pertain to the PS3, but it's still worth a look.
