Phantom Game Console

jasoncart writes "In a bold move newly formed US technology company Infinium Labs Corporation have announced the release of a new gaming console. They promise that it will be faster than any other console on the market, and have a huge games catalog (32k+ games apparently) available over broadband. Can they take on the big boys? Is broadband pentration high enough? Only time will tell - prototypes are promised in March." There's also an interview with their PR spokesdrone. *cough*Indrema.*cough*

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awesome

[tps12]

It's always great to see some competition in the stagnant console market. Also, I wonder if they've given any thought to releasing a Linux distro for this sucker. If I read the article correctly, it has support for Ethernet, so this might make a cool little X terminal for mom.

Supporting Linux would be a key advantage over existing console makers, who go out of their way to prevent customers from running a real OS on their devices.

Maybe this time next year I'll be posting this comment from a GNU/Phantom boxin! Here's hoping they see the light.