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Title: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: KDR_11k on October 26, 2003, 05:10:41 AM: Link

Abstract: The first public Q&A session with Infinium Labs, the makers of the Phantom console, was held. While Infineon dodged many questions, what came out still looked grim.

Okay, another wannabe in the console arena who just begs for a sample of the harshness of the market.
Pro: Well, they actually managed to build something that at least looks like what they promised, even though it currently seems more like a fancy case mod.
Contra: This thing is the manifested Evil (even moreso than the iQue!)! Full of DRM tech, designed to help the publishers in their war against the customer!

Oh, and they actually went as far as to believe the same bulls### Bill Gates does: That every single household in the world has unmetered broadband access. Somebody please kick them back into reality!
Hm, maybe MS buy's them out and/or incooperates their tech into the Xenon. Maybe the Xenon will be pretty similar to the Phantom.

Bottom line? Uh, I don't want one. Even if it released with good exclusives I wouldn't want one. I am unwilling to pay for immaterial goods (i.e. software only available for download). I am unwilling to pay for DRM'ed content. This thing is against every single of my principles.
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: kennyb27 on October 26, 2003, 05:57:24 AM: I guess I'm a bit behind in times, but I thought I read some where a while back that the Phantom was just this "fake" console. So, what exactly is the truth?
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: manunited4eva22 on October 26, 2003, 06:13:35 AM: It is a PC in box, with a broken CD Drive
Title: RE:Interview with a Phantom
Post by: ThePerm on October 26, 2003, 03:51:18 PM: its real...but its so vaporised it seems like a hoax....these people have dug themself in a whole.
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: PIAC on October 26, 2003, 07:30:45 PM: they are carrying the joke a bit far don't you think, infinium labs i mean ;p, also the thing is enormous, my PC case is smaller o_O
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: Pale on October 27, 2003, 10:02:40 AM: I think this is just a guy with a dream, who managed to get a lot of press before he had any funding, and now its all a big pile of confusing crap.
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: Uglydot on October 27, 2003, 11:41:24 AM: I was under the impression that this was a media joke to show off something that he could do. Now it's being carried out more. Makes me wonder.
Title: RE:Interview with a Phantom
Post by: robofish on October 27, 2003, 04:40:25 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: manunited4eva22
It is a PC in box, with a broken CD Drive

Penny Arcade?
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: BlkPaladin on October 27, 2003, 07:04:27 PM: Yes that's penny arcade.

Its been astablished for awhile that this console is basically vaporware. (I doubt it was nothing more then a guy with the right connections and diarehia of the mouth.)
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: KDR_11k on October 28, 2003, 05:37:56 AM: Some theories include this being a scam or money laundering operation. The main guys behind the Phantom have a long history of "cooking the books", scams and bankrupt companies.
Title: RE:Interview with a Phantom
Post by: Oldskool on October 31, 2003, 06:41:52 AM: Look, it's a PC, but at a different angle!

(Mysterious agents come up from behind Oldskool)

I'm afraid you know to much...
Title: RE: Interview with a Phantom
Post by: BlkPaladin on October 31, 2003, 07:39:00 AM: Well some people looked up the address of the supposed headquarters. All that in that room is a table and two phones, so its a pretty sure thing. Even time he is ask about he either ends the conversation or dodges the question.