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drew93084

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" Phantom" info - Feb 23, 2003 22:55
Phantom



lmao

it' s doomed

you' ll stop once you get to the second question on the right of the page
MattThomas

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RE: " Phantom" info - Feb 23, 2003 23:11
Any company trying to tackle the video game console industry right now would be committing major suicide. Sure, there' s always room for game developers and whatnot on the software side, but there' s not many companies able to compete with Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo right now... they simply have too much invested in their products. Remember Indrema or whatever that thing was called...? It found total failure even before launch.

I guess we' ll have to wait and see what " Phantom" has in stores. Should be interesting to say the least.

drew93084

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RE: " Phantom" info - Feb 24, 2003 12:28
I think M$ bought them or paid them to stop Indrema
c130rod

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RE: " Phantom" info - Feb 24, 2003 15:36
Who in the world is going to pay $600-$700 for one of them things? I think the system will launch and then die in 3 months.
Rampage99

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RE: " Phantom" info - Feb 24, 2003 23:55
That 3 month life span will be lived out on infomercials...
KK

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RE: " Phantom" info - Feb 25, 2003 15:54

" So if I have friends over and we want to go in a virtual casino and gamble or if my dad and mom are here and I want to play Scrabble, I' ve got that selection; or if my 3-year-old wants to play Putt-Putt or Pajama Sam, I have the availability of all those games," said the 32-year-old Roberts.


So, so far the games it has are...

1 - a virtual casino!!!
2 - the all-time classic and lucrative franchise, Scrabble (tm)!!!
3 - Putt-Putt, the legendary golf game of golf games for all you budding Tiger Woods out there!
4 - Pajama Sam, heralded as " Best E3 game of the year" - www.****games.com

Wow. I mean, wow.

So, you can just plug it in to your phone connection and download away. Sounds like something those Atari text phones did, and they were only £50 or something like that.

I mean, let' s face it - who is going to develop for a system where the games will be downloaded? How are they going to make a profit from the games if nobody is selling them? Or are they going to charge you for downloading *snicker* Scrabble?

If it' s going to have some big-name licenses on it, then it may stand a shadow of a chance. They need Tomb Raider, Dead Or Alive, Sonic, and it just isn' t gonna happen, unless they are gonna charge people for downloading these games. But with the machine costing about $600, I think people are just gonna stick with their PS2s, GameCubes and Xboxes thank you very much.

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