Phantom Console Live Video @ E3

Daniel Pass 15 May, 2004 at 2:14pm ET Article published in Tech

Well a REAL working Phantom Console is on display at E3! Despite the doubters, it would appear infinium DO have a working sample to show off after all…

Does it put off the “vaporware” rumours??

Our buds over at HardwareHell have a live video to download and see it in action!

Source: Hardware Hell

Comments

15 May 2004 ~ 2:39pm GHoosdum CBDroege has to eat his hat now!
http://cb.nexlia.com/columns/apparition.htm

I will charge $1 admission to anyone that wants to witness this event. If enough people show up and pay admission, we might be able to pay the medical bills when he needs intestinal surgery for hat removal...
15 May 2004 ~ 2:47pm Shorty

GHoosdum wrote:

CBDroege has to eat his hat now!
http://cb.nexlia.com/columns/apparition.htm

I will charge $1 admission to anyone that wants to witness this event. If enough people show up and pay admission, we might be able to pay the medical bills when he needs intestinal surgery for hat removal...

Would you wanna be Kyle Bennett right now I think he'd swap places with CBD right now
15 May 2004 ~ 3:11pm muddocktor

Dan wrote:

Would you wanna be Kyle Bennett right now I think he'd swap places with CBD right now

Yeah, I imagine that he's sweating big bullets right now, but he did bring up some important facts with his article. And his article was written 3/4ths of a year ago too. Who knows what might have happened if he hadn't written the article too?
15 May 2004 ~ 7:34pm qparadox That's an awfully long time to get a glorified shuttle with an online software package working ...
15 May 2004 ~ 8:34pm Camman ooo wow impressive its like watching UT2004 for PC.....oh wait thats all it is in a small case........
15 May 2004 ~ 8:39pm Cyclonite I'm not impressed. :thumbsdow
15 May 2004 ~ 8:50pm Leonardo Via has one now too, at least according to The Inquirer . Via's is reportedly a handheld gamer.
15 May 2004 ~ 10:57pm kanezfan

Dan wrote:

Would you wanna be Kyle Bennett right now

why? you're joking right? I mean I think you're joking. First off, they claimed they couldn't demo the console because they couldn't get their broadband connection to work, yet in that vid, they say their playing a game online, they even search for internet servers. and as far as I'm concerned, this is nothing more than a case mod at this point. I see no further proof that this POS exists right now. there will never be a phantom console as the whole thing is a scam, that's it.
16 May 2004 ~ 1:49am Shorty

kanezfan wrote:

why? you're joking right? I mean I think you're joking. First off, they claimed they couldn't demo the console because they couldn't get their broadband connection to work, yet in that vid, they say their playing a game online, they even search for internet servers. and as far as I'm concerned, this is nothing more than a case mod at this point. I see no further proof that this POS exists right now. there will never be a phantom console as the whole thing is a scam, that's it.

Not joking at all

I actually agreed with everything Kyle B pointed out but if you read his article carefully, Mr B was denouncing the existence of any work being done by infinium. Right now, Infinium can say "we have one out live, showing the world we aren't just squandering investor money".

It is a scam, see above comment by qparadox... it's a glorified shuttle.
16 May 2004 ~ 3:16am qparadox

The receiver is a 2.5Ghz PC, with a 40 gigabyte hard drive and 256 megabytes of Ram.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3714141.stm

Since its an AMD proc i'm betting they got it wrong and its a 2500+ with 256 MB of ram. Most games will *barely* run in 256 MB yet BBC claims this is "high spec" pfft. So the advantage here is

1) Hardware is cheaper and looks pretty (but not general purpose)
2) You get to wait 2 days for 1 GB games (that's what UT2004 is) to download
3) You get to pay $30 / month to rent games rather than paying $40 to buy the actual version.
4) It has a somewhat interesting mixed keyboard / mouse design that looks like it'll be carpal tunnel time.

It'll have a niche audience but the problem is people aren't going to like having to wait days for a new game to download, may revolt against paying for games with no ability to play after they stop paying. The graphics are likely to be lesser than acheivable on similar specc'd hardware on a console due to the general purpose nature of this.

I do see gaming heading this way in the future, but a device that is already well behind the times in graphics hardware and architecture is not going to hit up at the target audience (seems to be online fps'ers) who know that a slight performance boost will mean the difference between winning and losing. Hopefully these litigous SOB's will go out of business and a real company will deliver a better product in a similar segment.
16 May 2004 ~ 4:52am Gobbles ummm. yeah... ok.. so I get one of these and have to buy games I already own, again?

LOL can we say gonna bomb...

Gobbles
16 May 2004 ~ 7:21am Medlock I wonder what kind of measures will be taken against modding and pirating on this system... If it's modding abilities are anything like the xbox, I'm sure people will buy it purely for the hardware, cause I doubt you can get that harware in a real pc at that cost.

...Other than that, it sucks.
16 May 2004 ~ 7:54am Leonardo

...but a device that is already well behind the times in graphics hardware and architecture is not going to hit up at the target audience....

Not a problem: just switch out the AMD CPU from some old lower-powered P4 and have Intel and Dell to market it. It would be a hit!
16 May 2004 ~ 3:46pm EyesOnly How fast does it fold.
17 May 2004 ~ 7:06pm SimGuy

qparadox wrote:

That's an awfully long time to get a glorified shuttle with an online software package working ...

Working? An [H]'er came across this little bad boy @ E3. So much for the working software package.