More ApeXtreme Info

Hack Jandy writes "AnandTech has some pretty interesting follow up information to last week's sneak peek and discussion concerning VIA's attempt to penetrate the console market. By the looks of it, the S3 DeltaChrome GPU is horribly incapable of making VIA/Apex a formidable gaming console." More on vaporware at CES: Bob Gortician points to this "interesting, if terse, piece on the Phantom game console's debut..."

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[tb3]

The Phantom Game Console - If SCO made game platforms instead of lawsuits.

A box? Anyone check inside?

[Bendebecker]

According to the article: "Infinium Labs' proposed console, the Phantom, has made a showing at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as announced by the company earlier this week, but only in the form of a box which was not switched on."

Does this remind anyone else of the "three wheeled car" scam they had on unsolved mysteries once... you know the one where they had a big factory and claimed to be making three wheeled cars and had a whole mess of employees and looked completey legit and impressive but when the investigators finally raided the place, all the company had to show for it was an empty factory with a ripped up car with two by fours holding a third wheel on the back. Could the 'phantom' console be the same - a nice looking box that looked nice and legit until you realize for all you know it could just be a nice looking plastic box with a brick sitting inside it to give it weight? Did anyone actually open up the console to check? Is it really a prototype of some sort? Or is the 'phantom' console nothing but a phantom?