The Phantom

Simple question. Is there any possible way for someone to get one of these?

 

The pads and shell for the console actually exist. Or at least one prototype does. As for the innards, well, who knows?

 

Oddly enough, pretty much everything the Phantom promised is available as part of XBLA.

As I said back then, it wasn't that the Phantom was a bad idea. It was just that the Phantom was before its time.

-hl718

 

just like everything else like it that fails... like the dreamcast... it sucks to see these things that are great ideas die.. turn into vaporware, etc

 

ooh who's the lucky fuck to own that thing? so......sleek......so.......sexy

 

...........so......vaporware

 

XD hahahha very funny one XD..

but imho it was indeed a bit sexy. Lol maybe a bit aggressive in shape too. It reminded me of a viking ship even though it doesnt bare any resemblance to it XD.

 

sleek? look better! i think is as thick as an oginal xbox

 

I won't one. not even for the sake of money!!

 

So does any collector out there have one? or are they still in the hands of the company

 

Do you guys remember the 1st version of the Phantom? that was F*ing ugly! Looked like a mutant XBox.

Yakumo

 

This one? Would not have sold well in Japan...

 

The name they chose was foreshadowed it's future...

 

Yes, that's the one. Awful, truly awful. makes the original XBox look very sexy :lol:

Yakumo

 

this would not have sold anywhere well, where people with some fairly sense of taste are around.

 

the sad thing is when they were getting ready to take preorders for that thing. I was highly considering it.

 

As far as I know there were only mockups of Phantom consoles. The one on the picture apparently has hardware inside, the last time I saw it on a fair however (must have been 2005 or so), it was just an empty case to show off. The actual demonstration of Phantom soft was supported by a tower PC under the table with an original Phantom keyboard connected. I can have a look for a picture of this setup if anybody's interested.

 

Was that the picture of someone playing an FPS that was supposidly on the Phantom or that was meant to illustrate it cause i remember seeing a photo like that.

 

It's not a mockup. I've seen it first hand here when they were looking for investors (which is a good thing no one supported it). It was real. It had outlets in the back and wires hooked up to it.

They only had a video play, no actual demo, but it was comparable to a GeForce3/low-end Geforce4 GPU and had a P4 CPU (not a prescott, definitely a cheaper one).