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supervillain
Phantom Console :: is it a hoax?
Ok, I'll be honest. I've never really factored in the Infinium Labs Phantom Console other than I've have had suspicions from the start.
hell, it's called Phantom... something you hear about, but never see...
Anyway, HardOCP just dug up some dirt on them. Rather interesting read, IMHO.
Read about it here... looks like a con-job by the founder to me.
</geek news>
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Under the influence
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Re: Phantom Console :: is it a hoax?
Originally posted by gerbick
Ok, I'll be honest. I've never really factored in the Infinium Labs Phantom Console other than I've have had suspicions from the start.
hell, it's called Phantom... something you hear about, but never see...
Anyway, HardOCP just dug up some dirt on them. Rather interesting read, IMHO.
Read about it here... looks like a con-job by the founder to me.
</geek news>
I must admit I'm not interested in gaming or console news etc but this was an interesting read!
Definitely sounds dodgy!
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Gooooooooooooooooooood read.
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Re: Re: Phantom Console :: is it a hoax?
Originally posted by jamble7000
I must admit I'm not interested in gaming or console news etc but this was an interesting read!
Definitely sounds dodgy!
same here no longer interested in gaming, but gee I couldn't pull myself away from that article it was soo damn gooood and it looked so well investigated, think that what made the article.
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I did hear of another console quite a while ago now. But I'm unsure if it was the Phantom, but it does ring a bell or two especially the pictures.
Although it could have been a hoax then and now, lol.
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Re: Re: Phantom Console :: is it a hoax?
Originally posted by jamble7000
Definitely sounds dodgy!
And the name "Phantom" did nothing to tip people off.
There's an older Slashdot discussion about it here: http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...id=127&tid=186
Hey - think if I throw a copy of MAME on an old computer I want to get rid off and sell it on e-bay, I can call myself an industry-leading global entertainment and interactive game company too? At least I will have actually sold something.
What's really sad is the way the gaming media completely sold out to this hype - I'm sure they were paid well to run the press release/stories that they did. Those millions of investment capital had to have gone somewhere.
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Information Architect
What's with 2advanced designed site they should get? Or is the new site a phantom, too?
Fredi
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FK's official coffee addict
2A wasn't designing the site, they were only doing the video presentation for them.
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Information Architect
Originally posted by gasbag15
2A wasn't designing the site, they were only doing the video presentation for them.
Is the presentation done already? (Maybe I should visit 2A, but I'm just too lazy today.)
Fredi
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An Inconvenient Serving Size
Re: Re: Re: Phantom Console :: is it a hoax?
Originally posted by CNO
I'm sure they were paid well to run the press release/stories that they did.
A press release is just that, a release for the press - if you pay to have it included, it becomes a commercial. No grey areas here.
I didn't read the link (sorry), so maybe this is answered there, but what do the Phantom people have to gain by sinking craploads of cash into a system that does not and never will exist?
Stand by for emergency synapse rerouting
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OffTheHorseCEO
whoa. shady to say the least. i dont think id have bought this to start with and definitely not now. i'll stick with my super console aka the mighty mighty XBox. Halo anyone?
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The website is pretty cool I'll say that for it.
Whether or not its a hoax or not will be proved by the day its released. And for the minute, Im writing it off....
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I saw the phantom in an older issue of OPM and it look pretty cool, they also had a ton of up and coming games systems including a hand held from Korea.
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Retired SCORM Guru
Didn't Infinum used to be the company that gave us Nuon?
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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Harmony & Justice
Hoax. Ah! Hoax. Must be...
That story seems too believable.
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supervillain
naw, that was X Labs, PAlexC.
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Retired SCORM Guru
Speaking of...anyone interested in a nuon-enhanced dvd player?
"What really bugs me is that my mom had the audacity to call Flash Kit a bunch of 'inept jack-asses'." - sk8Krog
...and now I have tape all over my face.
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What in Nuon? sorry out of the cool loop i guess...
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Harmony & Justice
Originally posted by PAlexC
Speaking of...anyone interested in a nuon-enhanced dvd player?
Not really though. I'm pretty satisfied the capabilities of my movies-only dvd player.
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