actually, this is a diskless system that would be an Xbox/PS2/GameCube competitor and will get all its games from the Internet. it will ship with a gamepad, keyboard and mouse, and is built out of standard PC components, and is said to "look similar to current Dell cases."
gamespy has an article.
"The simplicity is even more apparent to the gamer. No longer will console owners have to trek to a store to purchase a game. Not only will players be able to purchase games online, but they'll be able to try them out as well. Infinium is planning two rental packages. The first will allow you to try out a game for three to seven days. The other will let you try out a group of games for a month; groupings would be by publisher, by genre, or user selected. The company is still nailing down the specifics of its rental scheme."
very cool, thanks for clearing that up, Ian. No doubt the real advantage is the phantoms online connectivity. You can download all kinds of games from all your favorite systems for your phantom. This way, you don't even have to leave your room to buy a new game! You buy it online, download it, and keep on playing games --all without ever leaving your chair! Say, if you happen to work from home, you really don't ever have to get up! Oh, and then you only need to connect your seat up to a sewage system, and fridge/range. Maybe people's legs will begin to disappear, because you will no longer need them. They will (de)evolve from your body because of "evolution". If any one gets a phantom, a job where you can work from home, a toilet/lazyboy with fridge and oven...then you can kiss your legs goodbye for good! Wow, isn't technology grand!? And how about that evolution, huh!? Let's give it up to the Phantom, and the false theory of evolution!!!!!!! *applause*.....(I could keep going, but I won't)
whoa.. i had no clue about being able to play games from previous platforms. that's tight
again, this will be able to play PC games, and PORTED console games. that means you can't just play an xbox game on it. it will have to be ported, just like many console games are ported from ps2 to xbox or gamecube and vice-versa right now.
Thanks, again, for keeping that in mind for us, we shouldn't forget that. So, e, what did you think about the idea of d-evolving to have no legs?
this thing is so gonna be vapoware like stated above
a phantom is a ghost and i don't believe in ghosts. therefore i don't believe in the existence of video games.
then what else is to blame for the stupidity of the youth?
if i had to wager a guess, i would blame it on chunky peanut butter, i HATE chunky!!
i would blame it on the laziness of putting the peanut butter and jelly in squitrable tubes together.
woah..and who KNOWS how many spoons!!!
LOL, so much pressure! ahhh
Exactly. I also don't believe in Matts. Therefore, I dont believe in Kellys.
hahahahaha, nice, brett--that was soooooo deep!