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    Default Divx's new revised bastard child, "The Phantom"!!!

    http://www.gamespydaily.com/news/fullstory.asp?id=4590

    Ok, if this is serious, uh, can you smell something? *sniff*

    Do you smell that? *sniff* *sniff*

    It smells like. *sniff*

    It smells like. *sniff* *sniff* *SNIIIIIIIF*

    IT IS!....

    P...ha, no......FAILURE!

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    I think I can hear Bill Gates giggling like a school girl..
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    Just think, you'll never own another game! You'll be able to rent them, forever!
    >)

    I think I'll just sit back and watch this pan out.
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    FL, huh...

    Can you say Ultravision?

    No disrespect meant to the state, but what game hardware has ever come out of there? Not Ultravision's, not Active's...
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    IT IS!....

    P...ha, no......FAILURE!
    Sonds like "Instant collector's item" to me >)

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    Can he beat the #1 vaporware of all-time ???

    Duke Nukem Forever

    This his doomed from the start, i'll tell ya !

    and for those 32k games, look like hundred of variation a la Combat !

    (32k ??? is this the limit of Colecovision game eh )
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    I think the article is saying it will have a library of 32,000 games from the start.. Not 32kb games. Regardless this will fail just from the simple fact that people like to have a game (or anything really) in their hands after they spend money, not some data downloaded on a drive from the Net..

    No one likes to spend money on something that they can't sell when they are done with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Raedon
    I think the article is saying it will have a library of 32,000 games from the start.. Not 32kb games.
    Hehe! i know, it was only a joke
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    I think it is a great idea and i cannot wait to hear more facts on this.
    If not anything it will force the existing consoles to make more and better online games.

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    yeah the florida address makes me wary, and i'm from there.

    still though i wish them well, the more systems on the market the hotter the competetion will be. in the worst case it will be one of those funny failures like the 3DO that i'll grab at a flea market.
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    It's a great idea if you like paying for something everytime you use it.

    Kinda like a DVD that puts a charge on your CC every time you put it in your DVD player.

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    The press release mentions that it's broadband (and if i read it right, exclusively so). I'm still not sold on the fact that going broadband only is going to work just yet.

    I agree with earlier sentiments about holding onto a purchase. I'm not saying people won't eventually pay for a file, but for the most part (myself included) when you think of files you think of getting them free off the net somewhere (ala mp3s or ROMs say).

    I can't believe that what looks like a rinky dink company is taking on Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Yes the video game industry brings in big bucks, but how are you going to survive against them?
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    yea, who in there right mind would develop for this thing?
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    32,000 games from the start?

    This is most unnerving :/

    I remember another product promising plenty of games, it was called Action 52. I was blown away, I mean, over 50 games on one cartridge?! How cool! My friend bought the damn thing, and I what a letdown it was. Imagine being thrown into the deepest depression you could ever endure... 52 times!

    These 32,000 games for the Phantom scare me considerably. I fear that 90% of them will be horrible little games where the object is similar to climbing up green and purple ladders before the water level rises to the top of the screen.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PC Kwajalein
    32,000 games from the start?
    This is most unnerving :/

    I remember another product promising plenty of games, it was called Action 52. I was blown away, I mean, over 50 games on one cartridge?! How cool! My friend bought the damn thing, and I what a letdown it was. Imagine being thrown into the deepest depression you could ever endure... 52 times!
    My comments about Active above were because they were actually supposed to be making a system -- one that played Genesis and SNES games, all in one unit. I think they mentioned NES, Game Gear and Gameboy too, but am not sure. Of course, it was never released.

    These 32,000 games for the Phantom scare me considerably. I fear that 90% of them will be horrible little games where the object is similar to climbing up green and purple ladders before the water level rises to the top of the screen.
    Actually, I looked at that number and assumed that the Phantom is almost certainly just a PC in a box, and those are shareware or freeware games that they don't have to license, or games they've gotten a license to distribute.
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    Their site says "50,000" plus games avalable at launch.

    I think it means any PC game ever. If it is a PC, then any game you can buy off the shelf should work right.
    I am in fact the guy that made the Raisins prototype worth thousands less by dumping it. "D'oh!!"

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    Not a bad idea.

    Sounds like a web tv version of PC gaming.

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    On one or 2 other websites, my favorite part was "The system will not be sold for a profit loss like other systems on the market right now, so even though it will outperform the Xbox, the price will reflect this"



    Are we talking like $800 for the console or what?!
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    You know, I'm starting to believe the Phantom console from Infinium Labs is never going to be released.

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