Playstaion and Gamecube has another competitor

[CRX-YEM]

Infinium Phantom
http://www.phantom.net/

looks and sounds fucking great

Standard Equipment
- Fits in any 19” entertainment center
- Custom OS on Windows XPe kernel
- Up to 3.0 GHz processor with 256MB DDR RAM
- High-performance nVidia video card
- High-performance Intel motherboard
- Dolby Digital™ 7.1 Surround Sound
- 100+ Gigabyte internal storage device
- On-board RF wireless modules
- S-Video, RCA or component video and PAL
- 10/100 baseT Ethernet
- 1 wireless controller
- Wireless keyboard and mouse
- 2 USB ports
- 4 controller ports
- 12’ Port Extension Cable

 

[MaaseyRacer]

BadAss that thing makes me want to get back into video games...

 

[NoJokE]

Damn, that thing looks friggin' awesome.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Wow... it's a standard personal computer in a box with custom controllers. Neato. :roll:

 

[CRX-YEM]

which means it'll be very easily upgradable.

 

[sohcslammer]

Did anyone read the article about the founder? He sounds pretty shady to me...

 

[NoJokE]

Yea, he sounds very sheisty. 8 different companies in 8 years which most of them went out of business or something. The pictures of the console arent even real life, they are 3D renderings. Shady

 

[noodles]

The company was under investigation for a while. Some people said the office was completely empty besides a desk and a telephone (which nobody answered). Anyway, some people checked it out and here's what they came up with:

http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/07/09/2042207.shtml

 

[NoJokE]

Wow dude, that is article is waaaaaaaaay to long.

 

[Guy]

cant say that im too keen about the online only limitations of it. seems like youd be SOL for all the games you paid for if the system flopped. They definitly have some great hardware specs, but it will be interesting to see how third party publishers take to the platform.