Infinium phantom

[yousuf]

http://www.phantom.net
what do u think about this console?

[Kernel]

It's a ploy to make $$$$...... M$ and Sony will rape them

[bmc152003]

i dont know what to think because there hasnt been any promotion going on, no commercials or anything. and has anyone actually heard of infinium labs before this?

[Kernel]

Originally posted by bmc152003
i dont know what to think because there hasnt been any promotion going on, no commercials or anything. and has anyone actually heard of infinium labs before this?

Like I said... its a huge ploy..

[Link]

on august 15 they will come out with the console at a gamers showcase. But the requirements are to high and the idea of their strategy (IE. downloading games) is simply rediculious. Though the website is amazingly excellent:D

[c-2]

ya seems like a pretty dumb idea to me .. if u want games "on" your console that u downloaded just get an xbox and a 120gig HDD :]

that website is kewl tho

[yousuf]

their site is on a shared server surely if they wanted to be a broadband games provider they would be on dedicated?
Bandwidth costs for games will be bloody high as well will all companies be able to afford suck technology to make full games available for download.

it sums up to be a hoax

if you do a whois on their domains it says the name of a guy Steve something
a 1 man hoax or just a multimillionaire with a rubbish plan for a console?

[KrackHead2k]

I think this will be a huge flop. Download your games? Sounds silly. What if the console gets really old and they stop the download service for games? Then all the Phantom owners are screwed. If you ask me, this isn't a console, its a small computer. Instead of buying the Phantom, get yourself a really good laptop.

EDIT: Typo

[Link]

Originally Posted by Tycho from Penny Arcade
It really comes down to this: is it a hoax, or are the forces involved in making this system absolutely inept? I'd call that six of one or a half dozen of the other.

Anybody tried to actually submit ther information on the pre-registration screen? It's not a button, it's just a sort vestigial nub with no function.

An interesting mail from Josh Parker, Private Eye:

In my amazing boredom, I researched the status of these trademarks on , but could find no record of either being trademarked. I tried various search methods, never did I see the slogan or the name Phantom trademarked by Infium Labs.

Uh, yeah. Might want to get one of them trademark things.

Steve from HardOCP dropped the following science on me yesterday:

We had a reader go by Infinium Labs and take pictures of their "facility" ( that's when we found out it was a strip mall in the Florida Keys ) only to find out it was a single desk in a 100 x 100ft room with two phones and no furniture. That was about 4 months ago.

I talked to the Tim Roberts guy on the phone when he returned my call ( 22 days after I left a message ) and when I asked him about all this...he HUNG UP ON ME. I asked him if he was looking for investors, he said "We are actively recruiting investors". I asked him if they had any consoles on hand, he said "We have several hundred prototype models here in the office". So then I asked him where the prototypes were made, he said "right here in our facility". Then I told him I had seen his 100ft x 100ft office space conveinently located next to Missing Link Art Gallery in the strip mall ( located at 5380 Gulf of Mexico Dr. Longboat Key, Fl 34228 ) and he went NUTS!!! "WHO THE **** IS THIS!?!?! BLAH BLAH I'LL SUE YOU".

Then you have articles like this one on Newsforge that make the whole thing seem sensible! Goddammit, I'm trying to dismiss something here! Stupid journalists.

(CW)TB

[Link]

sorry for the double post, but i thought this was funny

http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030820l.gif