http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/ Engadget Comments for Life after death: Phantom game console remembered in design mockups http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Last night I was doing shisha on Edgware Road and I saw a red Rolls-Royce Phantom with the numberplate '1', and it was a UK plate. It's worth more than the car!]]>Jul 26th 2010 5:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
And all this time I thought Infinium Labs was just an empty office employing only a receptionist.]]>Jul 26th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
You were probably sperm at the time.]]>Jul 26th 2010 5:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/.>]]>Jul 26th 2010 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Lol, you think so? From where/when?]]>Jul 28th 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Were you sent here to kill us, or to warn us about the coming apocalypse?]]>Jul 29th 2010 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Both. I promised to do you last. :P]]>Jul 30th 2010 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Engadget recently had an article about how 14-25 million americans dont have broadband
Sony said PS3 games are too big to download, that you could buy a car, drive to the store and back in less time
Sony said what they learned from PSP Go is that gamers prefer physical mediums, and most polls show 75% agree with that
There are entire countries without PSN/Live access
Then there's China, where all systems in there were smuggled, going download only would mean no chinese customers

You really think they'd willingly give up all those customers/countries? And the people who pay more for collector's editions?

PSP2 wont even be download only, let alone next gen consoles. PS3 games are already encroaching on 50GB, next gen will be even bigger. Imagine how long it'll take to download them, AND how big of a harddrive you'd need.]]>Jul 27th 2010 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 27th 2010 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Steam + PC = Phantom ]]>Jul 26th 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
I walked away from it thinking "Ok, this is a scam" because first off their "demonstration" was just a nice looking menu that you can navigate around in, but couldn't do anything.

And the core concept behind the console required game devs to recode their games to work with the Phantom, which I highly doubted they would. And sho'nuff it was phony.]]>Jul 26th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 9:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 26th 2010 10:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_%28game_system%29]]>Jul 26th 2010 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Now I just wonder why I even cared so much to begin with.]]>Jul 27th 2010 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.teague.com/) and Phantom employees. I have some early photos and renders here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/futileboy/sets/72157594190734497/]]>Jul 27th 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 27th 2010 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
It was a novel idea, but basically any HTPC destroys it.

Seriously, having a PC with Steam is infinitely better than their sales model, and didn't require some stupid custom box with custom controllers and whatnot.

As for the person complaining about downloadable games, this system isn't the PS3. It wasn't planning on 25 gig+ size downloads. Give it a rest, already. Games don't have to be that freakin' huge to be great, it just means it's loaded with uncompressed HD footage, mostly. There's plenty of great codecs out there to make a game image smaller, but BD games have to just be uncompressed because they can be. My SNES roms are less than a few megs each and give me more joy than 90 percent of my current gen games.

I proudly own a PS3 and will buy a 50 gig BD ROM if it's worth the 59.99 to plop down, but I'd rather sit around and wait for it to drop in price and play a ton of awesome games that are only 9.99 to download or less. Or even better, actually PLAY the library of games on my past gen systems I've still not caught up with.

Downloading is the future, whether everyone likes it or not. I love my physical discs and am a huge collector, but it costs way less for a small developer with some actual UNIQUE ideas to make their game download only than shell out 60 bucks for some Hollywood big budget physical medium game that isn't worth it for the 10 hours of playtime.

Try being in a band and affording to put every album out on CD instead of just being on iTunes and see how you feel. Try being a movie producer and putting out all of your projects on DVD or BluRay... it just doesn't make marketing sense at all if you're a small company.

Phantom was a cool idea but would never have taken off unless the market saturation at the time for broadband excelled even what it is today.]]>Jul 27th 2010 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 27th 2010 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 27th 2010 5:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
Says a lot.]]>Jul 27th 2010 6:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/
(Politely waits for someone to respond with "Cool Story Bro")]]>Jul 27th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 30th 2010 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/26/life-after-death-phantom-game-console-remembered-in-design-mock/Jul 27th 2010 5:19PM