Nerje
06-08-2005, 11:28 PM
The crew at Twisted Monkey (http://www.twistedmonkey.net) have posted an interview with Kevin Bachus of Infinium Labs (http://www.twistedmonkey.net/index.php/2005/06/08/twistedmonkey-interview-infiniums-kevin-bachus-part-1/#more-196), where they discuss the Phantom console and the public perception of their fledgling company.
At this point I’d say we’re kind of at the goal line. I joined the company about a year and a half ago and at that time the company was started by a couple folks down in Florida who had experience with the networking side of the tech industry and kind of said, “Well gee with all this capacity that’s out there, people being on broadband all the time, datacenters sitting idle, why is it that I have to go out to BestBuy every time I want to buy a video game? Why isn’t there a service that let’s me get games over an Internet connection?” And of course it’s a question that we in the game industry have been asking for a long time as well.What I find interesting is that they claim that they're creating a service, not a console - giving us a slightly better idea of what they're trying to achieve with the Phantom.
At this point I’d say we’re kind of at the goal line. I joined the company about a year and a half ago and at that time the company was started by a couple folks down in Florida who had experience with the networking side of the tech industry and kind of said, “Well gee with all this capacity that’s out there, people being on broadband all the time, datacenters sitting idle, why is it that I have to go out to BestBuy every time I want to buy a video game? Why isn’t there a service that let’s me get games over an Internet connection?” And of course it’s a question that we in the game industry have been asking for a long time as well.What I find interesting is that they claim that they're creating a service, not a console - giving us a slightly better idea of what they're trying to achieve with the Phantom.