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Apparition - 10 Sept 2003
www.phantom.net
"A phantom.
Second-cousin to Harvey the Rabit.
A figment of my imagination.
I conjured him out of thin air."
It's fake.
Someone is trying to make a point.
If It's not fake, I'll eat my hat.
Look up the word 'phantom' in the dictionary (www.m-w.com).
Here's the thing:
This company has never done anything else. You can't get the capital to start a
company when your only project is this experimental, with no safety-net.
No one has ever seen a Phantom box, with the exception of a digital render of a
box that is so poorly designed, it could never be marketed. It wastes too much
production money. Consoles have enough overhead without LEDs and overrated
stylizations.
Their main office address is in the middle of a very expensive
residential/tourist district. Not exactly the place for a tech office.
My hat is made of Nylon.
The different departments in their office have different telephone exchanges.
They are not all even in the same area, much less the same building.
So far, they have canceled themselves from every event at which they were
scheduled to appear.
I hate the taste of Nylon.
There is nothing anywhere on Intel's website or press releases that even
mentions The Phantom. This is the same case with all of their other 'partners',
with the notable exceptions of their VISUAL design partners.
The design for the controler is just a slightly modified PS2 control pad.
They're calling it 'The Phantom' for cripes sake!
Any of these things on it's own might not scream "Hoax", but all of them
together smell mighty fishy.
In fact, it may be even more than a hoax. It may be a scamolla (pronounced:
scam-olla). Look at the Beta-testers application. Are those the questions that
you would ask? Some of those questions are about the applicant's purchasing
habbits and preferences. That is useless info for choosing bata-testers.
However, it could be very valuable info to the gaming industry. You could sell
the kind of information that will be collected by that 'application'. Someone
probably will. How else would you get almost every hard-core gamer in the
country to fill out the same survey?
Ask me this time next year how my hat is doing. I'll let you know that it is
just fine.
Note: This info is from my own research, if you have information to the
contrary, let me know.
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