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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."
Interestingly enough, on the 14th (last Saturday) at the same time that this conference with the Infinium Labs CEO was going on, Kyle Bennett from [H]ARD|OCP was on stage at Quakecon, smashing a Phantom console with a big fucking sledgehammer.
Pictures are up at qconpics.org in the Saturday gallery. The pictures of the smashing start here. It was pretty cool to see, and Kyle promised the crowd that next week they are going to have a story up all about the internals of what the Phantom REALLY has.
Didn't sega do this a long time ago with there Genesis system? Wasn't there some like cable TV channel you can get and if you had it, you could select games you wanted to play and play them from the channel? I think there was some special device you needed in your genesis to play. Anyway, too lazy to look it up but I'm very sure they had something like this.
That seemed possible back then (with games being ~1 meg) but now you need to download a 5 meg executable, then like 100 megs of textures and sound files for a map. And then there's models too, I don't see how this will work unless the games are really bad. Would work much better if the 29.95 included a 100mbit connection.
Check it out: The Sega Channel.
It ran from '94 to '98.
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"Sez you.
I say human nature is cooperation. And, hey, look, I presnted just as much evidence as you did."
Capitalism is as much about cooperation as competition. Just look at how many people must cooperate to produce a computer chip. You have everything from companies that make fab machines, fabs themselves, chip designers, packaging, etc. Capitalism forces cooperation since it's the only way to effectively compete,
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Than clearly you have not looked into the history of Infinium and it's "Phantom Game Console". This company is basically a pipe dream at best and a out-and-out fraud is more realistic. Besides, it's basically a PC in a fancy box, except you can't do word processing on it.
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you can use a Nintendo 64 as an expensive DVD Player out of the box as well as a game machine
I am guessing you meant Playstation 2? Just a bit of nitpicking...
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