The new iphone clearly runs resident evil and ac mirage. The M series apple silicon is clearly powerful than other processors too.
Or why not put the latest A series chip in the apple tv , upgrade the cooling and get the AAA titles to sign a few releases ? With the kind of popularity and reach, wouldnt it have a decent enough market capture ?
I bet we’ll see an Apple TV soon with an M chip that’s called Apple TV Pro that’s designed for gaming.
Apple seems to be laying the ground work to have Mac gaming take a step forward. And a set top device is the next logical step.
I don’t think Apple would be interested in the console market, it is too competitive with Sony Microsoft and Nintendo and it is too small comparing it vs. the mobile gaming market, on which they are. Why compete for a 30 maybe 40 million devices if you have sold more than 2.32 billion mobiles devices up to date, of that 1.46 billion are active.
Most people don’t want to spend $.99 for a game for their iPhone or iPad. I have trouble seeing people willingly pay $60-70 for an AAA game on Apple TV. No enough to justify the added development costs. And if there aren’t buyers willing to pay console prices, developers would be crazy to pull that business away from consoles.
Right now Apple is showcasing that their platform is fully capable of first tier gaming. They must win over developers, even finance their pockets to start that ball rolling. It’s extremely costly endeavor. With Apple adding 40 plus GPUs in their M3 processors, and you can run a game at full power on battery is an incredible feat that isn’t doable on a PC equivalent.
It is going to take time and eventually the Apple TV box will become that console solution. Right now with Apple Arcade, they are saying we are ready to level up. They support XBOX and Sony controllers and their game library is unmatched on volume for indie developers. And they are slowly adding triple A games to the platform.
So it is happening.
However this is why Microsoft and Sony are buying up all of the smaller game dev companies too. It will move to a fractured ecosystems where exclusives will be single platform. Now, like streaming content, you have to subscribe to more than one platform typically to get the content you want. It’s gonna end up costing us more as consumers, which sucks. Because I’m sick and tired of the fact that the content I currently want to watch is across 5 different streamers instead of just one. WTF!
So the game platforms will suffer that. I’m already on PS5, but I also have a Switch, Apple TV with Apple Arcade, and the Play Date. Not including my iPhone for iOS games. I just picked up the new Atari 2600 that accepts the retro cartridges. I’m tapped out on consoles lol. But even the joy of doing that, it will get really bad like the streamers with the game consoles. And I don’t want that.
Apple change their OS to much to be in gaming.
They don’t need to. The biggest gaming market is gacha gaming on smartphones. As such - more iphones sold - more money. Why would they bother with making a game console?
They are. You’re just not paying attention. They just won’t rush it until enough interest and usage trigger the full push. But several recent leaks have shown that they are indeed going that way.
They are. The iPhone and the iPad are a powerful mobile devices.