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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. You know... by Xerxus · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... I am beginning to think it was a bad idea to invest in this company. =(

    1. Re:You know... by Baikala · · Score: 2, Funny

      We need more filter options, a "permanent -1 for this newbie without sense of humor, show me his commnets again in two years time if he's still arround" comes to my mind.

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    2. Re:You know... by mtrisk · · Score: 2, Funny

      At this point, your shares are worth more as toilet paper. Don't even bother collecting on your penny...

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    3. 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. Nothing to see here... by TouchOfRed · · Score: 2, Funny

    move along.

  3. Looks like MS beat them to it by RebelScum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, when Microsoft beats you to market with something, you're really slow!

    (The Xbox 360 has "e-distribution" in the form of Xbox Live Arcade, where you can download games to the hard drive over Live).

  4. Pssst, my money is safe! by Winckle · · Score: 4, Funny

    My investments will pay themselves back a hundred fold once Duke Nuken Forever is out!

    1. Re:Pssst, my money is safe! by game+kid · · Score: 2, Funny

      You misspelled "if" as "once".

      To quote the great philosopher Laurence Tureaud, "I pity the fool!"

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  5. More CGI art? by Southpaw018 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Is it just me, or has the console's image changed again? I mean...seriously...part of what's so entertaining about the whole damn saga is how often and how radically the "photographs" of the console change!

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    1. Re:More CGI art? by johnkoer · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well they are just changing along with their competition:

      They started out competing against this.
      Now they are competing against this.

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  6. 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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  7. 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...
  8. 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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