Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Casper Lives? And Other E3 News. -- 3:49 pm CST, Update by J.t.Qbe

At E3 this week, Infinium showed a marginally operative model of its new "Phantom" console. It's white (get it--white Phantom? Casper?) and, um, has a swivel keyboard. Unfortunately they couldn't actually show it playing any games because, get this, they said that they couldn't get broadband at E3. Right. They've changed their target audience from "hardcore gamers" to "casual gamers", which apparently means "idiots". Next Great Thing or Scam-O-Rama? You make the call.

Meantime, in the real world Sony and Nintendo both showed WORKING models of their new handhelds, the PSP and DS respectively. I may be interested in the PSP when the price drops to something reasonable.

And continuing the Sony love-fest, Sony announced yesterday that they've dropped the price of the Playstation 2 to $149, both for the standalone console and for the console/network adapter/free game bundle. At that price I'd buy one...if I didn't already have one.

A.T. Hun comments: If I could convince my wife to let me get one without filing for divorce . . . Re: Phantom Would they have us believe that you need a broadband connection to play games at all?!? That hardly sounds casual-gamer-friendly. Anyone else think that thing looks like a George Foreman grill?

News for 05/12/2004

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