New Games Console Announced

[Calen]

Seems another new Games Console will appear at the end of the year from a company called    Infinium Labs.
No information as yet has been posted on the Hardware specs but they our saying it will outperform any Games Console on the market today.


See below:

Longboat Key, Florida – January 20, 2003 - A Tampa Bay area technology company, Infinium Labs Corporation, will develop and market a new game console that will outperform the XBOX, Sony Playstation II, and GameCube.

Press Release


About Infinium Labs:

Infinium Labs is the leading provider of software and services that enable partners to deliver revenue-generating digital video games through its Phantom technology. The Company also provides Phantom branded software technologies and service solutions to manufacturers of set-top boxes, home-media servers and networked-entertainment appliances, and last mile broadband distribution companies.

[Calen]

What goes around comes around, they release this say end of year/early 2004, by that time PS3 will be almost upon us which will be touted as probably 30 times more powerfull than anything else, nintendo will have there next gen console in the pipeline which wont just be as powerfull but will have some great fun games to play, M$ and there X-Box will hopefully just disapear.

While not true for all games but for the majority, the look of the games rules over anything else these days, playabilty is the last thing they seem to care about. More true in the PC world than anywhere else.

[Calen]

The one thing that Nintendo just like a lot of older Amiga game developers done in the past was playability first, some of those most simple looking games have been the most fun to play on.
On Amiga we have an example being SWOS and countless others, on Nintendo you have something like Super Monkeyball which keeps you coming back for more, Monkeyball was so simple and crisp gfx wise that the GBA port looks virtually identical to its bigger brother.

But i guess its sometimes catch 22 thing, Games with great gfx sales more than anything it seems, leaves less time for them to add the as much as possible playability in there.
I sometimes in the past have judged a book by its cover and been caught out, im glad these days i get more a chance to try a demo..which has saved me lots of money :-)

[Calen]

On a slightly different note, i see that Speedball 2 has been released for the GBA and quite a few other Amiga games for it our in the pipeline. ala Wings, Gods, Robocod  & Payback to name a few. Again Nintendo get quality games for there system ;-)
All we need is a version of SWOS/Turican2 and a few other Amiga classics and i may just get one for those long journeys  :-D

Wouldnt it be great if Amiga.inc had the rights to all these old classics and could trade with Nintendo, You give us this title for next gen Amiga , we give you this one for your GBA. ahmmm :-)

[Calen]

Focusing on the Amiga, Amiga Inc need to get Hyperion Entertainment to grab the rights for Last Ninja 4 and maybe some old classic killer gameplaying C64 games

I wish, I totaly loved the trilogy on the C-64, the first was probably one of the first games i had played on it when i got mine and it had me hooked from start to finish, ahmm took some time though :-)
All fine games which for me had it all, Playability, Gfx and superb music, i really couldnt ask for more.

Those guys at System 3 sure knew there stuff :-) I had the pleasure at the time to get to talk with one of the lead coders on LN3, i was very young and quite chuffed back then about it ;-)

[Calen]

It was rumored that both ATI and nVidia was going to bid for next contract.

Yeah i heard something about that also, sigh

One can see the MS’s market segment plans i.e.
1. Hand-helds,
2. Desktop.
3. Consoles.
4. Phones.
5. 32bit Severs.
6. 64bit Severs..

7. World domination