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Can Infinium Compete In The Game Console Market?
Joe Barr writes "IT Manager's Journal is running a story this morning by Robin Miller and Matt Moen on Infinium Labs, the controversial game console maker. The long promised console finally appears to be a reality, but there are serious questions about Infinium's longterm viability in the game console market. ITMJ, like Slashdot, is part of OSTG."
Woot! Already downloading the torrent of Duke Nukem Forever pre-release for it!!!
...I thought Nintendo's Virtual Boy was the biggest gaming disaster ever.
Whoooo! Yeah! Go capitalism! With all the Microsoft and VHS goodness! Whoohoo!
I mean, it's not like you could buy your own PC for a few hundred bucks and then just play games on that and keep hard copies too..
Running an operating system owned by the people who brought you the X-Box is a really great idea too, it's not like that's a company that's ever engaged in unfair competition..
They should have game publishers eating out of their hands, what with no one else having good contacts and exclusive deals with them (like say, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony).
It's a good thing they thought up this subscription/download deal, I've never heard of that before.. Let alone heard of any one failing miserably at it. (Or perhaps I have).
I don't think any other company ever tried entering the console market with basically a stripped-down PC. And if they did, they wouldn't have been forced to sell them at loss, right?
So, it's all good. I'm just wondering whether the console will support Duke Nukem Forever AND Daikatana..
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
Maybe I can get one of these for my son for christmas. Of course I mean my unborn son, and the christmas of 2008.
*Target market: people who have already grown out of games, and their wives! OK, so the kids might actually be vaguely interested.
*Subscription: $30/month for crap games, anything worth paying will be extra.
*Console cost: Free with 2 year sub, $??? with a 1 year sub.
Somehow I can't see this working. With your PC or conventional console, $30/month will get you a new game, or a couple of used/budget titles, which you get to keep for ever if you like, or you can trade them in/sell them. Plus you can rent a good few games for that money, without a monthly commitment.
If the $30/month actually gets you access to a constantly expanding list of decent games, or the premium games have a suitably small one-off fee (rather than pay per play, or limited time payment) then they might just pull it off. I'm not holding my breath though, I guess we'll see when they eventually list some publishers.
Oh no... it's the future.
Those who read Penny Arcade should be quite familiar with this company...
Dude, Whoa
Stop Pretending You're A Real Company
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
* if piracy ever gained a foothold *
yes, as we all know pc games biz died in the '84 due to rampant copying.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Darnit! I was all set to run out and by DDR today instead of getting a gym membership...now I have to sit on the couch and eat potato chips until March!
but have you considered the following argument: shut up.
I'm still holding out for the Indrema linux based console!
Just kidding.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Like, Breakout, Super Breakout...
Photoshop.
>>"Do you think companies get bought without the buying company looking at the product?"
Yes.
Several years ago, when DSL and Cable internet access were not yet available, a guy claimed he had created a device that would transfer data at very high speed over ordinary phone lines. Needless to say, people were interested.
He never let anyone examine the device closely and was extremely vague in his descriptions of how it worked. Engineers who listened to his description of how the device worked said he was spouting gibberish. And yet he was able to take in millions of dollars from investors based solely on demonstrations he gave.
As he took money from investors, there were **10 different occasions** where he was supposed to deliver a working prototype and failed to do so -- each time claiming that the device was destroyed after being struck by lightning.
Google for "Madison Priest"
Why, do they have their own videogame console?