The Phantom Game Console

[ARCHON]

Infinium Labs has announced details of the hardware in its Phantom game console, which has been publicly unveiled for the first time at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles and is set to launch by the end of the year.

The "game receiver," which downloads games from a broadband Internet connection onto an internal 40gb hard disc and has no ports for external media such as CDs, DVDs or memory cards, is set to use components from AMD and NVIDIA in its design.

An AMD Athlon 2500+ processor will lie at the heart of the system, along with an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra graphics chipset, with 128mb of on-board graphics RAM - making the Phantom into a PC system just slightly behind the current cutting edge specification.

It's certainly enough power to run key upcoming games such as Half-Life 2 and Doom III with good graphical quality and framerate, and should allow the system to continue to play high-end PC games for at least a couple of years.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Infinium plans to give away the Phantom for free to people who sign up to the Phantom Game Service content delivery system, which is expected to cost around $30 per month when it launches this November in the United States.


This is the Controller!



more info at: h**p://www.phantom.net/

[7thghost]

i would go "OMG WOW SO FKNG MAZNG/AEWSOM3 WTF DOD THIS IS HOW WE WIL PLAY IN DA FUTURA????!!?? OMG LOL" but i aint a 12 year old with the brain of a 7 year old. I am actually a highly intellectual sheep.. much smarter than you f00's.

P.S if you did not get my post, your sense of humor stinks. What i meant was I dont think it can cause a dent in SONY's hold of the market.

[Reaper]

shhh...not a word against the phantom...theyll sue your ass...ask hardOCP.

wow they sure could have done better with the design....and so many people are still on dialup so i guess they were on crack if they thought they could challenge the big 3.

EDIT: doesnt look that great either.

[Kaboom]

its not the looks that i fear ...not even the broadband thingy

i mean what are they trying to do here....

first of all instead of buying this shit why dont one go for a pc ....which has addon facilities as well...
secondly why get stuck with something that has only one dat channel ...i.e internet and no other thing like cdrom and bla bla bla.... so that they charge u like hell for there services and empty ur pockets...

hence its just crap..... forget a thing like this ever came in market

[ThunderBird]

wat a beauty i must say
but will it cost to download games ?

[H3LL10N]

Phantom is bogus and vaporware and their 'CEO' is wanted in the US for fruad and tax evasion.

[faridali]

Buying this would be a waste of money . Better to wait for the new consoles like the playstation 3 and Xbox 2 and nintendo's new console , which will be released soon and will have much more power than this .