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Beta Testers For Phantom Sought

Posted by simoniker on from the the-infinium-menace dept.

An'Desha Danin writes "According to an article on GameSpot, Infinium Labs is now taking applications for beta testers for its mysterious Phantom console over at the official website. Apparently they're looking for about a hundred gamers with broadband to test the console towards the end of the year. Infinium are still planning to publicly unveil the Phantom at the Ultimate Gamers Expo in LA this August."

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  1. US Only by truffle · · Score: 4, Informative

    Before you bother clicking through (to an application form at an IP address, very bad form) this is a US only beta test. They don't bother to say US Only anywhere, but there is no country field in the application, and only US states are listed in the states field.

    Poor attention to detail in a console manufacturer, not a great sign.

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  2. Re:When does it stop being a PC... by Ender+Ryan · · Score: 2, Informative
    I don't have a conclusive study I can point you to, but I can tell you that emulating PPC is very difficult to do on Intel hardware(go google), and people are already writing emulators for the PS2, but current processors aren't quite *fast enough.

    Of course it's not impossible, but the cost of doing so will remain prohibitive for the time being.

    * of course, that was several months ago and there are some new processors out on the market.

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