Can Apple TV Shake Up Living Room Gaming?

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Whoa, slow down there, let's not get the cart before the horse. The damn thing hasn't even come out yet and they are talking about "shaking up" living room gaming. :rolleyes:

The bottom line is that as long as Apple's announcement next week is in line with expectations at least to some degree (which is never a given with a company this secretive), the platform they'll be creating with this new device ought to be a genuinely exciting one for developers. It will open up a new market and the possibilities of new experiences; it will, at least temporarily, give premium games a shot in the arm, while broadening the horizons of free-to-play in the medium term; it will give yet another new tier and new approach to the ever-broadening landscape of games.
 
I wonder if a cart can pull a horse..

Did you know the average horse has 15 horse power?

Think about that.
 
They have the frostbite engine running on similar hardware, if they allow for external storage it could shake things up.
 
This will work about as well as Fire TV has done to take over living room gaming.
 
elzeus said:
They have the frostbite engine running on similar hardware, if they allow for external storage it could shake things up.
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HA HA HA!!! Oh man, that's funny. Expecting that level of flexibility from Apple?

Snide reply aside, I'm sure the new Apple TV will be just as locked down as every other "iDevice" in the Apple stable.
 
XenIneX said:
So... less locked down than Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo's console offerings?
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ocellaris said:
But but but Apple is evil!
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I've not seen many here refer to any console as a great idea. Of course this is the standard method to justify Apple's endless appetite for copying anti-consumer concepts and selling them as e-jewellery to all the "fans".

Closed ecosystems suck, they're purely and deliberately anti-consumer. People still eat it up, whether it's Sony fans, Apple fans, or whatever fans.
 
XenIneX said:
So... less locked down than Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo's console offerings?
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What? I can only do Microsoft stuff on a Microsoft console. Why can't i play this PS3 disc on my XBOX?? I need my freedom!!
This kind of logic has no place on an apple bashing forum.

Im sure for the casual gamer which is a vast majority of people they will be happy with the games and offerings from the AppleTV..

On a different note (kind of..)
Its funny to listen to people mock "gamers" who play serious big name games on a console/computer and don't understand how you can waste time playing games... but then go play games all day on their phone. Those people will be just happy playing fruit ninja on the appleTV and not wasting their time doing "childish things..."
 
No. The people that primarily play the kinds of games that run on mobile processors (what "TV" devices are typically based on) aren't going to stop watching their television to play something that they could simply play on their phone while they watch television. This isn't the first article I've seen that talks about the Apple TV and gaming and the last time I saw one of these articles I think it was in /r/Apple and not even Apple fans seemed convinced.

Serious gaming is done on a game console or a personal computer, not on a compact multi-purpose device.
 
Can Apple TV Shake Up Living Room Gaming?

No.
 
I don't see any gamer in their right mind ever buying an appleTV for gaming.... Maybe the mindless fanboys, but not gamers.
 
I waited for this stupid thing for years. I've moved onto a fire tv and Fire TV sticks. Very happy with my decision.
 
Although I wouldn't expect a major shakeup, no one anticipated the success of the Wii either ... one impact that it could have (potentially) if it were reasonably successful is that it might finally break the consoles out of licensing fees ...

PCs and mobile platforms have no licensing fees to access the systems ... you will pay the 30% fee if you are a making digital sales through an online store but no fees to access their ecosystems, and if you are providing a free app there is no 30% charge ... consoles charge a licensing fee for releasing on their system (and if you sell digitally through their stores they take the same 30% on top of that fee) ... removing the requirement for the licensing fee would hurt the profitability of the console manufacturers slightly but would benefit the developers and make it easier to release on both consoles and PCs ...

so, it is possible that Apple might shake up the market, just not in the way this analyst is proposing
 
They have some clout. It may not be in this area, but if they fuse iGame and Apple TV and pull it off, that could make it a good competitor for the Xbox and Playstation as a media device. Content is going to be a huge thing if they have CoD and Battlefield versus Angry Birds and Bejeweled.
I'm for this in the name of competition. Who knows, this may succeed where the likes of Ouya have not.

Admittedly, Apple and gaming are things we don't typically put together.
 
I was never really a believer in handheld gaming ... And then FF3 and FF7 came to iOS.
 
The bottom line is that as long as Apple's announcement next week is in line with expectations at least to some degree (which is never a given with a company this secretive), the platform they'll be creating with this new device ought to be a genuinely exciting one for developers. It will open up a new market and the possibilities of new experiences; it will, at least temporarily, give premium games a shot in the arm, while broadening the horizons of free-to-play in the medium term; it will give yet another new tier and new approach to the ever-broadening landscape of games.
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New experiences like the ones provided by the Nexus Player & Fire TV & Razer Forge & Nvidia Shield Android TV? Yeah that might be a new experience to someone with his head buried so far up Apple's ass he never sees the outside world but consumers have been offered that "new" experience for a couple years now and they've largely rejected it. And Apple has had the opportunity to put gaming into the Apple TV for a few iterations now and has rejected the idea every single time. I think they do so because they know that taking a game made for a largely mobile platform and trying to make it work on a TV is never going to be optimal. Very few Android games work well on the Android TV and those that do are games that had to contort themselves to work without physical controls in mobile and can welcome the addition of a gamepad with open arms (for reference see any of the Sonic games available for Android).

All that said I still love my Shield. But really it's become an expensive video streaming box and a way to play Rocket League (and the occasional console port) streamed from my PC to my couch. Steam Machines be damned!
 
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