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Apple has never understood gaming, never will. They cannot compete against PS5 and Xbox. This is not an easy market to enter, making the hardware itself is jus
by silvestrov 6y ago
Apple has never understood gaming, never will.
They cannot compete against PS5 and Xbox. This is not an easy market to enter, making the hardware itself is just a tiny part of the job.
- fastball 6y agoAlready a lot of games people play regularly on their iPhones/iPads that will work out-of-the-box on a game console with an MX chip. In the same way Nintendo isn't a super direct competitor to Xbox/PS, I would expect the same of Apple's offering.
- TillE 6y agoNintendo has half a dozen wildly popular, exclusive franchises which date back 30+ years. Apple has...nothing, frankly.
- xanderstrike 6y agoPeople have been trying for years to do what you're describing with gaming-centric Android TV boxes. People don't want to play mobile games on their TV. They want to watch TV while playing mobile games.
- fastball 6y agoDifference being that those are all severely underpowered devices. If you combine the existing iOS games (some of which are actually kinda impressive visually) with an actually beefy machine that the AAA titles can easily target (shouldn't be that difficult), you have an offering unlike the others.
- supermatt 6y agoCompletely disagree. They understand hardware design and have a larger (and more accessible) software distribution platform than the ps5 and Xbox combined. Many ALREADY use Apple products as a gaming platform. They have now wiped the floor with CPU performance. If they can provide comparable GPU performance (they are ONLY a generation behind), then I absolutely think they could compete in that arena.
- pier25 6y ago> Many ALREADY use Apple products as a gaming platform. For casual mobile games, which is a whole different segment.
- 1_player 6y agoThe many gaming on their iPhone are not the audience that would buy a dedicated gaming console and hundred of $ worth of games. They would if 1) the Apple exclusives could compete with the Microsoft and Sony ones and 2) games would not be mobile stuff but current generation AAA. Yeah, not in a million years an Apple gaming console would succeed.
- supermatt 6y agoExclusives don’t take the market, as is evident by PCs having a larger market share of the gaming market than both PS5 and Xbox combined. Apple have products other than mobiles - this very article is about one of them...
- PartiallyTyped 6y agoThey "don't need to understand them", they need to hire people that do..
- Mindwipe 6y agoDidn't work for Google or Amazon. Both of whom spent a lot.
- sliken 6y agoI think you underestimate the number of IOS/Iphone/Ipad users who would happily pay for a small, quiet, console that "just worked" with any game in the app store, but would drive a 4k screen at a higher frame rate than any IOS device.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoApple runs billions in revenue through games on their platform. Sure, they may not be "real" games according to some, but their opinion is irrelevant to the actual revenue figures.