Revised 'floating' silhouette closer to 2600 design and enables 2x front facing USB ports. In a new blog post hosted by Medium, the Atari VCS team reveals that "Now that we have finalized our upgrade to the new AMD Ryzen chipset, the Atari VCS team is excited to unveil a number of other changes and improvements." Chief amongst the design tweaks to the "amazing retro-futurist design" are choices that make the new VCS an even better 'tribute' to the original.

In the picture above you can see the old-ish vs new, and what has most notably changed is the 'floating effect' introduced in these newest renders of pre-production consoles. With the floating aesthetic implemented, the design team was pleased that the re-location of USB ports was facilitated. Now, instead of 4x USB 3.0 ports on the back, there will be two on the back and two on the front. It is admitted that the original Atari VCS, pictured below, had no front facing ports but the designers thought they enhanced usability greatly.