Phantom Console > On Demand Gaming Service

[kingthebadger]

The First-On-Demand Gaming Service >

Basically its a pc which plays most pc games ( connected to broadband ) onto your tv, you can try games before you buy, when you buy, it downloads the game onto ur console (phantom) which is basically a PC! lol

anyways check it out for yourself.

http://www.phantom.net/

 

[gh0st]

read about it in a magazine. pretty cool, though i sure wont be buying one when ive got a pretty good pc right next to me.

 

[pat_thetic]

Problem with consoles is you can't upgrade them :dozey:

 

[kingthebadger]

Problem with consoles is you can't upgrade them :dozey:

this one is basically a pc, and can be upgraded

 

[Dulrough]

Im with ghost, I will not play and game on a gamepad on the crapy low res TV I have when there is two kickass computers in the basement.

 

[gh0st]

doesnt use a gamepad, it uses a keyboard and mouse. and its meant for high definition tv.

i still wont get one though.

 

[kingthebadger]

they had a gamepad at e3 2004

 

[gh0st]

this is the phantoms controller: http://biz.gamedaily.com/images/feature_images/phantom/Phantom controller open.jpg

 

[AudioRage]

Its definately a niche console.

It seems its for pc gamers that have the money for a high def tv and want to play their games on something bigger then a monitor, or console gamers that don't like sitting at a computer to play games..

I for one like my computer, and think its a waste of money.

 

[lans]

I don't get what's so special about it? it has a mouse, keyboard and a Geforce FX 5700

My pc pwns that so why bother.

 

[Snakebyte]

Is that actually coming?

Here are a couple comics from Penny-Arcade about the Phantom (language warning!):
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-08-20&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-01-22&res=l

Did you guys see the thing about HardOCP vs Infinium?
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTEyLDE=
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NTk4LDE=