Joe DeFuria said:
Some PC startups (and Phantom is basically a PC) and ISP attempts. Make the hardware free, and you can get people to run advertisements continually on their desktop! You can sign them up for huge service agreements!
So far, the only ones to do it well are cell phone companies.
(Who tend to be backed up by enormous-to-start corporations already in telecommunications, by decades-established brands, and nowhere near the hardware outlay--for a device that is now a necessity in modern life, rather than a form of entertainment.)
Can you at least wait for E3?
...because we never comment on things before they're launched?
This IS part of their E3 revelations, and since it's conflicting what they've said not too long ago... And heck, their track record with electronics conventions isn't too good either, eh?
Which has nothing to do with the console itself.
...and everything to do with the measure and ability of the company itself, which certainly DOES have to do with the product it proposes to launch and support.
Of course it does. Doesn't mean it deserves to be discredited before they get the chance...
It's had a few chances so far--doesn't mean we won't comment on each step of the way. Have we not done so with every other console the moment new details are out, whether with drooling or eye-rolling? How about games? Individual chipware?
Crikey, this is what we DO!