Phantom unveiling at CES

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Infinium Labs announces that its Phantom Gaming Service will be unveiled to the public at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.

Infinium Labs has today announced that its elusive Phantom Gaming Service will be unveiled to the public at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which gets under way on January 8. The Phantom will be a featured product at the Microsoft Windows Embedded Device Showcase exhibit and will also be shown during a special gaming session on the first day of the show.

"We're very excited to be showing the Phantom Gaming Service for the first time at North America's largest trade show," said Timothy Roberts, CEO of Infinium Labs. "This show gives us the unique opportunity to present the Phantom firsthand to both consumers and industry insiders."

News source: GameSpot

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(3 replies) #1 SSRules on 06 Jan 2004 - 19:58

my guess is that it'll be a cardboard cutout..

#1.1 Homie on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:01

or a holographic projection

#1.2 daveoc64 on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:20

Either that or they will come up with a lame excuse like "We've forgotten to bring it with us. But we did bring a photo."

#1.3 nugg3t on 07 Jan 2004 - 00:01

itll be a white sheet of paper with the word "Phantom" on it

#2 kemical on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:47

it will fail.

#3 netstarman on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:50

No kidding the "guy" whos making it has had a rap sheet for fraud anyway it will fail or put him in the jailcell.

#4 Liquid on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:54

lol, how many times have they annouced that it will be at a some kind of electronic/gaming show.. Oh it will be at E3, oh it will be at Quakecon. Now when they come to this they are gonna be like, oh we forgot to turn the oven on so it wasn't cooked in time. Come on ppl, you have delayed the revieling almost as much as Duke Nuken Forever has been delayed. Stop it and unviel it.

#5 netstarman on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:56

Oh dont forget that Discover machine made by Apex at least that " PLAYS" Win.XP PC games and its online but that will run for at least 400 dollars.

(2 replies) #6 mbrewthx on 06 Jan 2004 - 20:56

trying going their website. http://infiniumlabs.com/dialup/dialup.html

Is it me or is there nothing there...

A vaporware website for a vaporware product....

"I'm sorry we couldn't bring it, it was confiscated by Home Land Security, who mistook it for a bomb"

oh wait it will bomb!!!

#6.1 Sticktron on 07 Jan 2004 - 16:33

The website is actually very nicely done. They obviously spent some money on it.

#6.2 mbrewthx on 07 Jan 2004 - 17:32

Yey it is nice but all the content is gone.. nice interface but where is the news the forum????

(1 reply) #7 netstarman on 06 Jan 2004 - 21:06

They should have put a shoe box with a lamp cord attach to it. I would look at it, at least that would run better than the excuses there trying to smoke up our butts.

#7.1 ABC½ on 06 Jan 2004 - 22:49

^ I second that. But don't forget netstarman that's they are more like kids trolling around. Hehe some think that PS2 is great LOL it's only a rushed prototype without texture compression!

(1 reply) #8 Sawyer12 on 06 Jan 2004 - 21:11

Give it a chance guys, it will fail if people say stuff like what ur saying and dont buy it or look into it. You cant say its going to fail because you simply dont know that.

#8.1 ABC½ on 06 Jan 2004 - 23:22

THIS GOES HERE :

^ I second that. But don't forget Sawyer12 that's they are more like kids trolling around. Hehe some think that PS2 is great LOL it's only a rushed prototype without texture compression!

Sorry.

(4 replies) #9 h4x0r b4k3r on 06 Jan 2004 - 21:18

they dont have enough money to do it

#9.1 NateZ on 06 Jan 2004 - 21:28

neither did Gates

#9.2 elleyim on 06 Jan 2004 - 22:06

i always thought william gates III was rich.

#9.3 chacho on 07 Jan 2004 - 00:26

for the slow: he is.

#9.4 fjv on 07 Jan 2004 - 14:24

for the quick: he wasnt

#10 Trevsweb on 06 Jan 2004 - 21:45

lol i forsee it will never see the uk shores

our broadband aint fast enough

#11 Cryptic_Night on 06 Jan 2004 - 22:22

I think they might actually show it this time. I'm hoping....

#12 GuidZilla on 06 Jan 2004 - 22:26

People were the same way when promised them new fandangled movin picture bawxes, i suppose alot of those rednecks never did get one, purely thinking that it never did exist, ever, not ever i say, ever.

#13 ABC½ on 06 Jan 2004 - 22:50

You all will eat your nuts when the first game for it at that CES will be Doom III!

-ZAAAAP my dog!

(2 replies) #14 oo420oo on 06 Jan 2004 - 23:04

You know its gonna ship with Duke Nukem Forever...

#14.1 nugg3t on 07 Jan 2004 - 00:01

which will never come out, so evidently, phantom is not coming out

#14.2 chacho on 07 Jan 2004 - 00:27

maybe the word Forever in the title has a hidden meaning lol

#15 matt74441 on 07 Jan 2004 - 00:18

They should seriously consider putting a DVDROM into it. It'll make loading games a whole lot easier.

(2 replies) #16 corrosive23 on 07 Jan 2004 - 01:40

various people have taken pictures of their "offices" in florida. Its an empty storefront. Its a ripoff people.

#16.1 CrimsonBlur on 07 Jan 2004 - 11:35

and you got this information where? I'd like to see the pictures before I believe something like that, and even then, the pictures themselves could be fake/a joke. Anyway, why do all of you WANT this system to fail? More systems in the market will always be better for the consumer, there is no point in wanting any product launch to fail.

#16.2 corrosive23 on 07 Jan 2004 - 16:36

http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTEy

From the article "Since January of this year, about the time we first heard of the Phantom console, the address given for Infinium Labs has been listed as 5380 Gulf of Mexico Drive, Longboat Key, Florida 34228. This is confirmed by the register information listing the same address for the Infinium Labs website.
Some months back we sent a photographer out to take a look at the Infinium Labs base of operations, but found only a small strip mall. At that time, there was only one open office space, and it contained a single desk and a telephone. Other than that, there were only a few small businesses located at this address. We were unable to tell if the open office space was Infinium Labs or not.

We sent another photographer to the address about six months later only to find that there was still no Infinium Labs located at this address, and that there hasn't been, at least according to the other residents of the mall. We contacted the Mail Boxes Etc. located at this address and discovered that mail sent to the Infinium Labs address would end up there for pick up, there was no actual storefront or office space just a post office box (#409) for Infinium Labs. These are the pictures from our most recent trip to the address listed by the Infinium Labs website. This is the office listed for the last eight months. That fact may make you wonder where the Phantom console is actually being developed. Certainly it makes sense that you would want any mail for your only public contact address coming to your offices, or so you would think."

#17 dougkinzinger on 07 Jan 2004 - 03:03

It will fail.

#18 qoa on 07 Jan 2004 - 06:28

The part I dig is that they say it's about as big as a mid sized pc case turned on it's side.

#19 FrAxElAnK on 07 Jan 2004 - 06:30

probably will fail, but the concept behind it is kinda cool

#20 netstarman on 07 Jan 2004 - 13:54

i was seeing the system it looked like a pc case turned on its side. But the guy shouldnt delay so many times if he shows the system it self already on the website already there to try out. If he shows it on the web then do it. Alot of Neowin folk are pretty smart and could see this. If he didnt have it he would show a mock up of a computer gen. console but he already showed that he had it. buttttt he decided to back off in showing it at plenty of shows, ( CES, E3 etc. ) Show what you got is what i would say to this guy. the thing looks like a shoe box with a lampcord attached to it.

1.) he shows he has it on Jpegs
2.) he decided to hold off showing it, when promised everytime to show it different times at electronic shows and game shows.
3.) his website shows vaporware?????
4.) he doesnt show!! not even the start up display of the operating system.
5.) he says he has had bill gates and steve balmer was showing up at his office.
6.) No games were ever shown to run on the system, where are they ?

My belief is the underpants gnomes were making the games and systems... they also took my underwear.... I'm sadden i miss my underpants.

Last edited by 29963 on 08 Jan 2004 - 13:19

#21 fjv on 07 Jan 2004 - 14:48

its a nice name and logo to let it go to waste

fjv

(1 reply) #22 dougkinzinger on 07 Jan 2004 - 14:54

Step 1: Steal Underpants.
Step 2:
Step 3: Profit.

#22.1 Jon on 07 Jan 2004 - 19:24

heh

*walks off singing underpant gnome song*

#23 Gary_Player on 07 Jan 2004 - 14:57

Well he certainly knows how to hype things up although I dunno how he's planning on working this scam...unless he expects ppl to pre-order and pay over western union which NOONE is dumb enough to do...I really have no idea wtf is going on with this whole phantom thing

#24 raid517 on 08 Jan 2004 - 01:14

Erm, haven't we been hearing about this thing for the last 15 years already? Or maybe it just seems that way?

This thing is bull. Don't part with your cash until you see some proof that it's real.

Q

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