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Kevin Bachus Quits Infinium

Posted by Zonk on from the ha-ha-ha-ha-ha dept.

In yet another piece of news confirming that Infinium is snake-oil in console form, Kevin Bachus has left his position as CEO of the company. Next Generation reports: "The company continues to promise the launch of the aptly named Phantom e-distribution console in 2006. To be honest though, the company has been promising its launch every year since the launch of the Xbox when they first started talking about the unit and rightfully about the promise of e-distribution."

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  1. Re:You know... by MBraynard · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I actually did buy a very, very, very small amount on pot odds for two reasons:

    1) Whatever technology they were developing could be picked up by a major service provider who wanted to get into the game market. So I was thinking someone might just buy them out. I think that's the only hope the thiefs behind the company had.

    2) To just develop/sell/liscence their keyboard/mouse combo. It looked really good and they apparently own the IP on it.

  2. Could it be... by rAiNsT0rm · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That it really is a sham?!? No way! All those ivestment bankers couldn't be wrong, and the hardware was so revolutionary, and the games... they were going to be so, so, well... there may not even be any games, but if there were any I'm sure they would have been perfectly bland and retreads of crappy PC shareware/flash games.

    Damn. My hopes were so high for so long. Guess I'll have to settle for the next best hype-box 360... it will be sooo much better. I mean MS says so, and like on MTV too...

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  3. Re:Good Idea by Elranzer · · Score: 4, Interesting
    let's face it Nintendo is considered a small company in the console industry today
    That's like saying Apple is considered a small company in the music player business these days...
  4. I actually had my hands on one by LordZardoz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It was a demo unit at E3 2004, so they did get as far as having a few prototype consoles.

    I would guess that they have just failed to get enough investors to actually launch. The idea is, oddly enough, becoming increasingly valid. But they have absolutely no credibility with anyone at this point, as near as I can tell. How is it tht anyone can still be willing to be associated with the Phantom console at this point?

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