The Man with the Plan

So who's behind the Phantom? The company CEO is Tim Roberts, an entrepreneur who retired at 28 when his company SAVVIS made its initial public stock offering in 2000. And what does SAVVIS do? Its main business is providing network services, such as secure virtual private networks, to major businesses.

Enticing Business Partners

Here are Phantom's main advantages to game developers:

  • Low risk publishing: With the Phantom set-up, game developers can offer a game to console gamers without shelling out the cash to actually put discs on store shelves. If the developer has already created the game, they basically have nothing to lose offering it to Phantom owners.

So what's the downside? We'll get into that in the next section.