The Phantom is vaporware at best. The company that came up with it, Infinium Labs, has threatened several websites that challenged their ideas, and took at least one ([H]ard|OCP) to court, and lost. Basically, they've never had the thing close to completion and spent more time trying to sue or sucker investors in to the doomed project. I have more hope seeing Duke Nukem Forever hit shelves than the Phantom. The idea wasn't the issue---having games downloaded to the console itself---it was the implementation that was taken issue with. IL has never been able to put out how they expected to deliver their service. Even with their ex-CEO Tim Roberts gone (and he was the main issue being who specialized in being a dirtbag), the company has never put out a working console for reviews. It had a prototype unit at a trade show one year, but the Phantom there wasn't actually running any games---a regular computer was. At this point, I'm just waiting to see when Infinium Labs will go bankrupt. The Phantom is just one of those jokes like DukeNukem Forever...except the DNF developers didn't run around suing people who asked about it's viability.
