Kevin Bachus Quits Infinium 29
In yet another piece of news confirming that Infinium is snake-oil in console form, Kevin Bachus has left his position as CEO of the company. Next Generation reports: "The company continues to promise the launch of the aptly named Phantom e-distribution console in 2006. To be honest though, the company has been promising its launch every year since the launch of the Xbox when they first started talking about the unit and rightfully about the promise of e-distribution."
You know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You know... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:You know... (Score:2)
The original poster was ambiguous with regards to ownership of shares in the Infinium or whatever they are called, and I was amused by the possibilty that someone had actually bought shares in this decidedly dodgy venture.... and if you read further on, the original poster actually responds with "I actually did buy a very, very, very small amount"
Still, I wonder why I was marked harshly down overated and you somehow escaped attention
Re:You know... (Score:4, Interesting)
1) Whatever technology they were developing could be picked up by a major service provider who wanted to get into the game market. So I was thinking someone might just buy them out. I think that's the only hope the thiefs behind the company had.
2) To just develop/sell/liscence their keyboard/mouse combo. It looked really good and they apparently own the IP on it.
Re:You know... (Score:3, Funny)
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Nothing to see here... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:1)
Re:Nothing to see here... (Score:2)
Looks like MS beat them to it (Score:5, Insightful)
(The Xbox 360 has "e-distribution" in the form of Xbox Live Arcade, where you can download games to the hard drive over Live).
Re:Good Idea (Score:5, Interesting)
Pssst, my money is safe! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Pssst, my money is safe! (Score:3, Funny)
You misspelled "if" as "once".
To quote the great philosopher Laurence Tureaud, "I pity the fool!"
Re:Pssst, my money is safe! (Score:1)
More CGI art? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Not CGI. (Score:2)
That's not the Phantom... (Score:1)
Re:More CGI art? (Score:3, Insightful)
They started out competing against this. [50megs.com]
Now they are competing against this. [amazon.com]
But how's Tim doing ?! (Score:2)
Re:But how's Tim doing ?! (Score:1)
Could it be... (Score:2, Interesting)
Damn. My hopes were so high for so long. Guess I'll have to settle for the next best hype-box 360... it will be sooo much better. I mean MS says so, and like on MTV too...
I actually had my hands on one (Score:4, Interesting)
I would guess that they have just failed to get enough investors to actually launch. The idea is, oddly enough, becoming increasingly valid. But they have absolutely no credibility with anyone at this point, as near as I can tell. How is it tht anyone can still be willing to be associated with the Phantom console at this point?
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Re:I actually had my hands on one (Score:1)
The funny thing is that even as long as I've been in this business, there was a point were I truly believed that this product was going to co
Phantoms Killer App Launch Title? (Score:1)