I remember hearing something about some new contender in the console devision way back. Apparently someone's working/ was working on a console dubbed as Phantom. Anyone know anything about that project and the console behind it? here's something I found though it seems a little dated. http://www.dailygame.net/Articles/Previews/phantom_aug.phtml
from what i see on that article, all this console is, is a computer..., its pointless, it will proberbly be massive aswell, the article is dated, i bet this phanton thing fell through and the project now is proberbly dead.
they're running windows-st00pid heads! why did they do that?! "[One] thing … people have been concerned [with is] that XP is not as fast an operating system as Linux. elieve it or not, [after our OS customization] we have found that it is faster." coughahembullshitcough
, yeah I figured it was bull but I just got curious when I went on the PS3 forum and under a "other consoles" thread it said something like "talk about other consoles such as the revolution or phantom."
The Phantom is vaporware at best. The company that came up with it, Infinium Labs, has threatened several websites that challenged their ideas, and took at least one ([H]ard|OCP) to court, and lost. Basically, they've never had the thing close to completion and spent more time trying to sue or sucker investors in to the doomed project. I have more hope seeing Duke Nukem Forever hit shelves than the Phantom. The idea wasn't the issue---having games downloaded to the console itself---it was the implementation that was taken issue with. IL has never been able to put out how they expected to deliver their service. Even with their ex-CEO Tim Roberts gone (and he was the main issue being who specialized in being a dirtbag), the company has never put out a working console for reviews. It had a prototype unit at a trade show one year, but the Phantom there wasn't actually running any games---a regular computer was. At this point, I'm just waiting to see when Infinium Labs will go bankrupt. The Phantom is just one of those jokes like DukeNukem Forever...except the DNF developers didn't run around suing people who asked about it's viability.
