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"New Console Called The Phantom"

look in the news article in special reserve a new console is being mad which is supposed to be broadband only.

I say give it a chance. Might be good.

If it exists that is.

Phantom = 3DO all over again, if it exists that is....

And, if anyone reading this wonders what a 3DO actually is then it proves the point even better !

~~Belldandy~~

I'd expect games to be compressed to an N64 size - that means compressed music and sound but the N64 still managed fantastic sound in the forms of Jet Force Gemini, Conkers Bad Fur Day and Zelda: Orcarina of Time.

Besides, I think that most of these games will be cheaply made, multiplayer based games.
The idea would be that you paid for the box and were then free to download as many games as you liked (or if you did pay, I'd expect the fee to be minimal).

If it's a broadband only machine, it won't be trying to jump in the deep end with the multimedia likes of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

Maverick42 wrote:
> adrian wrote:
> If its a cheap console that say offers games like SNES and maybe
> even
> the old N64 games as they were on cartridges as little as
> 8MB(64mbit)
> then it may be worth a purchase. Downloading games that are on PS2,
> XBox and GC would take too long on Broadband as most will be 1GB+
> with
> some probably filling a DVD.
>
> Nicking other consoles' games - illegal, isn't it?

But I mean those type of games as I did say "Like", and not "SNES or N64 games". So decent 2D graphics or half decent 3D graphics would be good, not some crap 2 colour Speecy type game.

Notice how the controller is a COMPLETE rip off of the Xbox pad?

adrian wrote:
> If its a cheap console that say offers games like SNES and maybe even
> the old N64 games as they were on cartridges as little as 8MB(64mbit)
> then it may be worth a purchase. Downloading games that are on PS2,
> XBox and GC would take too long on Broadband as most will be 1GB+ with
> some probably filling a DVD.

Nicking other consoles' games - illegal, isn't it?

I highly doubt this console is real. But it it is, my only addition to this convesation is:

Hmm...

Strafex wrote:
> Downloading games should be a breeze with broadband.
>
> It won't have big devellopment scale class games like Halo, might well
> be worth cheap fun games, especially when it comes to multiplayer.

If there small games then yes download would be easy, less then 10MB is acceptable as 512K gets around 3+mb a min average of 200MB an hour at pretty much flat out, and 400MB per hour for 1mbit cable.

If its a cheap console that say offers games like SNES and maybe even the old N64 games as they were on cartridges as little as 8MB(64mbit) then it may be worth a purchase. Downloading games that are on PS2, XBox and GC would take too long on Broadband as most will be 1GB+ with some probably filling a DVD.

they might be all demos

Downloading games should be a breeze with broadband.

It won't have big devellopment scale class games like Halo, might well be worth cheap fun games, especially when it comes to multiplayer.