New game console announced
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marconelly!
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So a bunch of dotcom failure execs have gathered to make another, ultra-obvious failure... Suits them well I guess.
I didn't look at the website, but I welcome any console that can provide some new, interesting games. The Xbox's hard drive has helped allow games with unique experiences like the time control in BLiNX and the large-world tracking in Halo and Morrowind, and it will help enable even more ambitious titles like Fable and B.C. in the future. If this new console can play to its own strengths and use its required networking feature for some innovative ideas, I'm all for another piece of hardware.
I also think it's shortsighted to discount a new player in the market when the details of their business plan have yet to be fully revealed. They may not need to sell tens of millions of units to sustain their operation, so thinking that they'll only get crushed by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo may be the wrong way to consider the whole issue.
I also think it's shortsighted to discount a new player in the market when the details of their business plan have yet to be fully revealed. They may not need to sell tens of millions of units to sustain their operation, so thinking that they'll only get crushed by Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo may be the wrong way to consider the whole issue.
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The other one was the Nuon platform from VMLabs, which was basically a media-processing chip being pitched to DVD-player manufacturers. VMLabs tried to get manufactures to bite on implementing it into their machines to assist with already-existing processing/decoding requirements, with the claim that it would add little to the cost and a lot to the functionality and feature set. All players using the Nuon chip would be part of the Nuon standard, and they'd be compatible with software developed for this trojan-horse platform.
Yeah, that was the Indrema, I think it was called.
The other one was the Nuon platform from VMLabs, which was basically a media-processing chip being pitched to DVD-player manufacturers. VMLabs tried to get manufactures to bite on implementing it into their machines to assist with already-existing processing/decoding requirements, with the claim that it would add little to the cost and a lot to the functionality and feature set. All players using the Nuon chip would be part of the Nuon standard, and they'd be compatible with software developed for this trojan-horse platform.
It sounds like they're selling a budget PC. There's no doubt about it..
Where else are you going to get that many software titles? (outside of an upgraded Yoshi's Boxx
) This sounds like a load of crap. It's probably another "test" (ala MAVAV) that ends up stirring up a lot of controversy for no reason.
And thus the fad.. begins! Soon enough some other "organization" will put up a controversial website.. then another..
"All Your Base" and "Freaky Picture And Shriek Popping Up When You Least Expect It" had better look out!
Where else are you going to get that many software titles? (outside of an upgraded Yoshi's Boxx
) This sounds like a load of crap. It's probably another "test" (ala MAVAV) that ends up stirring up a lot of controversy for no reason.And thus the fad.. begins! Soon enough some other "organization" will put up a controversial website.. then another..
"All Your Base" and "Freaky Picture And Shriek Popping Up When You Least Expect It" had better look out!
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The concept drawing looks like a budget PC mini tower case on its side with a plastic cover over the front.
So far these guys make Indrema look well run.
So far these guys make Indrema look well run.
Let's make a couple of crappy PCs with overpowered videocards and market them as "Broadband Game Consoles"! Woohoo!
They might as well have codenamed it "Snowball", as it doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell.
PS: I'll bet $10 that their "50,000+ games selection" will look like "The Sims Online, Counter-Strike, Microsoft Chess Network"... kekeke. And it will "outperform" the Xbox/GC/PS2 only in 3dmark2001.
PPS: On second look, it is even more laughable than I anticipated. Even the box and the controller look like they took an Xbox and painted over the Xbox logo. The much advertised "broadband online gaming" means "it can play against PC". Sure... I'm going to go online with a console gamepad and compete in Counter-Strike and Warcraft III against people who have mouse/keyboard. Better yet, I'll do it at 640*480i, so that I can't even see the text on the screen. Damn, which number buys the AWP? Oops, my gamepad doesn't have number keys on it. Even better is the fact that I'll be playing the exact same Windows version of the game as the PC players, so I'll get to enjoy the full PC gaming experience of long load times and endless bugs and patches! Woohoo! It's almost as good as buying a $300 eMachines PC and hooking up a Logitech gamepad!
They might as well have codenamed it "Snowball", as it doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hell.
PS: I'll bet $10 that their "50,000+ games selection" will look like "The Sims Online, Counter-Strike, Microsoft Chess Network"... kekeke. And it will "outperform" the Xbox/GC/PS2 only in 3dmark2001.
PPS: On second look, it is even more laughable than I anticipated. Even the box and the controller look like they took an Xbox and painted over the Xbox logo. The much advertised "broadband online gaming" means "it can play against PC". Sure... I'm going to go online with a console gamepad and compete in Counter-Strike and Warcraft III against people who have mouse/keyboard. Better yet, I'll do it at 640*480i, so that I can't even see the text on the screen. Damn, which number buys the AWP? Oops, my gamepad doesn't have number keys on it. Even better is the fact that I'll be playing the exact same Windows version of the game as the PC players, so I'll get to enjoy the full PC gaming experience of long load times and endless bugs and patches! Woohoo! It's almost as good as buying a $300 eMachines PC and hooking up a Logitech gamepad!
If this whole thing's even legit, I doubt they'd go the PowerVR route. But I know PowerVR has to cooking something up. I would love to see another high-end PowerVR implementation show up in a future SEGA arcade hardware. Faster than Naomi 2 (minus some of the memory overkill) would've been cost feasible for a console back when the PS2 launched, so I can't even imagine what some of the later Series 5+ lines could be doing now...
marconelly!
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You know, I was thinking. This sound really fishy. I mean, naming console that everyone and his mother has problems believing in - 'Phantom'? That sounds to much like a self fullfilling kiss of death to be true.
Perhaps we are witnessing the beginning of another internet phenomenon where bunch of people with nothing better to do makes a web site, writes a 'press release' and sends it over to all the gullible gaming news outlets, and then sits back and laughs their butts off.
All your base, Mahir and Dancing Baby better watch out!
Perhaps we are witnessing the beginning of another internet phenomenon where bunch of people with nothing better to do makes a web site, writes a 'press release' and sends it over to all the gullible gaming news outlets, and then sits back and laughs their butts off.
All your base, Mahir and Dancing Baby better watch out!
marconelly!
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