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Spank-A-Thon · Feb 7th, 2003, 08:03 PM

I've checked out all the info I can find on 'Phantom' and here are my thoughts.

1) They say it will be 'cross-platform'...
On their web-site they state you will be able to play games on-line 'cross platform'. What they mean by this is that you can play say something like a First Person Shooter against PC owners, PS2 owners... whoever... Not that you could stick a PS2 game in it and it would work... That's a pretty misleading notion of 'cross-platform'...

2) They state they already have 35,000+ games available for the system... What games system has that many games available. The PS1/PS2 hasn't... Nor the SNES... But do you know what has? The PC... which leads to my final thought.

3) It's nothing more than a PC in a box. I truly believe it will be similar to the XBox in that it will share common PC components - I also believe it will probably run some form of a Microsoft OS.

Look at the evidence.... Dreamcast owners could play Quake3 against PC owners - there's your cross-platform capability....

35,000+ game - How can a new system have that many games already unless it's tagging onto an existing system? And besides the PC, what else has that many games?

Seriously, this is what I think it is. I hope I'm wrong - but I don't think I will be.

- S

Feb 7th, 2003, 08:03 PM	#47
Spank-A-Thon Carpe Diem Baby! Joined: Jan 2002 Location: Liverpool, UK Age: 49 Posts: 664	I've checked out all the info I can find on 'Phantom' and here are my thoughts. 1) They say it will be 'cross-platform'... On their web-site they state you will be able to play games on-line 'cross platform'. What they mean by this is that you can play say something like a First Person Shooter against PC owners, PS2 owners... whoever... Not that you could stick a PS2 game in it and it would work... That's a pretty misleading notion of 'cross-platform'... 2) They state they already have 35,000+ games available for the system... What games system has that many games available. The PS1/PS2 hasn't... Nor the SNES... But do you know what has? The PC... which leads to my final thought. 3) It's nothing more than a PC in a box. I truly believe it will be similar to the XBox in that it will share common PC components - I also believe it will probably run some form of a Microsoft OS. Look at the evidence.... Dreamcast owners could play Quake3 against PC owners - there's your cross-platform capability.... 35,000+ game - How can a new system have that many games already unless it's tagging onto an existing system? And besides the PC, what else has that many games? Seriously, this is what I think it is. I hope I'm wrong - but I don't think I will be. - S __________________

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