May 12th 2011
By TheFlood

Infinium Labs has released the specs on their system which will either revolutionize the industry or make a spectacular flop.

What makes Phantom so different from other systems on the market? For one thing, the games will all be downloaded. There is no memory slot, optical drive and by the looks of it, everything will have to come through the Ethernet connection. Just simply buy or rent the game, and it will download to the 40GB hard drive for storage.

The Phantom will definitely be powerful in terms of hardware. It's going to have an Athlon XP 2500+ CPU, 256MB RAM, 128MB GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, the aforementioned 40GB hard drive, nForce 2 Ultra 400 motherboard, a custom controller and game pad, a keyboard and mouse, and a lapboard, all included in the package. And possibly, it may have future adapters to connect it to the PC.

Of course, there is a catch. You have to pay 29.99 a month to have service, and you must sign up for at least 2 years. Although the system is free, you have to buy the games, most about 10 dollars cheaper, or rent them, which can still get pricey. And don't plan on cracking it either, because Andrew Huang coded it, and he broke the Xbox code, so you know it will take some work.

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