Infinium Labs creeps tentatively out of the morass of lawsuits and speculation today to finally reveal some hard facts about the machine that sees itself less as a gaming console and more of an interface to a gaming experience. Billing itself as a “game receiver,” the Phantom (now with an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ and Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 Ultra, 256MB of RAM, and a 40GB hard drive) will be included for free to two-year subscribers of Infinium’s gaming network ($29.95 a month), where premium games can be downloaded for an additional cost or rented for around $5. The hardware is also available without subscription for $200 (bring on the hacks!)
Infinium Labs plans to formally display the console at this year’s E3 (starts tomorrow). It’s interesting to notice from the pictures that there is only a single USB port up front. I guess the included game controllers and keyboards will just have to daisy-chain.
Read [Gamespot via PennyArcade]
Read [Yahoo (Reuters)]
