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Infinium Phantom Gets Positive, Negative Spin
aanand writes "Kevin Bacchus, Infinium's PR man and the brains behind the launch of the Xbox, has given a revealing interview with State in which he attempts to lay to rest once and for all the doubts about the Phantom's viability and, indeed, existence. The man himself: 'I built a game console. I know what it takes to do that. It wasn't until I met with the founders of the company as they were interested with bringing me on board that I realised that it was a lot less audacious than it seems on the surface.'" Infinium has also recently announced that they "will be shipping Java technology on its Phantom game receiver when it launches this fall", but with Xbox Live Arcade seeming to duplicate at least some of Phantom's "advanced gaming on demand system" functionality, and muck-raking sites such as 'Where Is Phantom?', billed as "The site for all [Infinium] Critics, Cynics, Detractors and Doubters", nipping at its heels, the company may have its PR work cut out for it.
I saw a product labelled Infinium in a store already. Sadly it doesn't play many games...
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
So they've hired you to post good things about them on slashdot, eh?
HardOCP had pictures of their booth before it was fully set up. They actually had signs like "Deciet" "Lies" and "Flim-Flam" like the Penny Arcade comic. Tycho posted that at some point during the con, the CEO approached him and proclaimed that he had just killed a dog. At least they're trying to have a sense of humor about things. Hopefully they'll be as amused as we are when they compare first-month sales reports with Nokia.
Not really excited. The concensus has slid from "hoax" to "stupidity" and is now leaning towards "The Next N-Gage."
"I built a game console"? If by "built a game console" you mean "put a PC into a set-top box," then I guess you could be correct...
I think he's referring to the Xbox.