The company behind the controversial console, the Phantom has announced that CEO Kevin Bachus has left the company and CFO Greg Koler, the European boss has taken over.
He has joined the company in 2003 as president and COO and quickly replaced founder Tim Roberts as CEO. As a former Microsoft employee he brought a lot of industry knowledge to the company as many thought the console really was ‘Phantom’.
Koler is not to be under-estimated though. He is the founder of Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe, but the likelihood of us seeing a console from Infinium Labs is very slim.
Infinium Labs director Richard Angelotti had this to say, "From the perspective of the US and international markets, Mr Koler's extensive corporate experience and practical knowledge of the games industry will be fundamental to our ability to successfully address the challenges we face at this pivotal juncture in our company's evolution. Greg is known and respected by his management peers for his insightful industry views and his clear, concise and candid industry operational commentary,"
Will we ever see the Phantom? Or will it be just that?
View: Infinium Labs
News source: Gamesindustry.biz
He has joined the company in 2003 as president and COO and quickly replaced founder Tim Roberts as CEO. As a former Microsoft employee he brought a lot of industry knowledge to the company as many thought the console really was ‘Phantom’.
Koler is not to be under-estimated though. He is the founder of Sony Computer Entertainment in Europe, but the likelihood of us seeing a console from Infinium Labs is very slim.
Infinium Labs director Richard Angelotti had this to say, "From the perspective of the US and international markets, Mr Koler's extensive corporate experience and practical knowledge of the games industry will be fundamental to our ability to successfully address the challenges we face at this pivotal juncture in our company's evolution. Greg is known and respected by his management peers for his insightful industry views and his clear, concise and candid industry operational commentary,"
Will we ever see the Phantom? Or will it be just that?
View: Infinium Labs News source: Gamesindustry.biz
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"From the perspective of the US and international markets, Mr Koler's extensive corporate experience and practical knowledge of the games industry will be fundamental to our ability to successfully address the challenges we face at this pivotal juncture in our company's evolution. Greg is known and respected by his management peers for his insightful industry views and his clear, concise and candid industry operational commentary,"
When the company had nothing useful or insightful to say, what better way to cover that than with a large mouthful of management rhetoric and lots of big words. Pivotal juncture? What pivotal juncture? Surely that would be when they were actually due to release the console rather than just having an upper level reshuffle!
this pivotal juncture in our company's evolution = liquidation?
The system is/was based around PC hardware circa mid 2004. How is this supposed to even represent a gaming platform now?
Point made!
Then they had the cheek to sue HardOCP for suggesting the above.
I do wonder who would want to work for Infinium Labs and why, though.
Last edited by 56748 on 22 Nov 2005 - 20:25
although this phantom's storys sound worse and worse and worse everytime i hear about it.
Infinium don't make games (or hardware for that matter - lol).
Infinium don't make games (or hardware for that matter - lol).
i'm just saying if sega were to be treated like the phantom when they said loong time ago "we are going to make a gaming system" and everybody said "yea right".. would there be sega?
give phantom a chance and sit back and see.. they are trying to enter the market, companys don't make consoles to loose money on purpose. They intend to make money, and by saying the phantom is fake you are stating that the company intends to loose money.
Just wait and see if this console ever comes out, and wait for the official announcement that states that the phantom is not going to be released, as far as we know it will.
If they are a legit company, I feel sorry for the investors...they got screwed.
loved their offices
I also feel the need to ask: Seeing as they don't have real hardware, and they don't have games... how are they making money? What the hell are they even doing?
This is one of the most well-run business scams ever.
And Sqube, it's only a scam if they're making money, which I doubt.
Sound like nothing, just a guy that earn a lot of money for a job done in USA and in Japan, not a proactive and ingenious CEO, in another words :a puppet ceo
Wonder if this comany was simply set up to give a bunch of people jobs without actually doing anything.
Screw it, it isn't.
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