Apple making a gaming console

[Max Carter-Smith]

So, it'll be overpriced, pointlessly flashy, actually do nothing special and only serve as a status symbol for elitists? Yeah, good luck with that...

I disagree with your post, Apple pricing methods are relitively on par with other companies such as Toshiba, Dell, Sony and HP. At least in New Zealand at any rate.

I think it would be a good addition to the market, to be honest. Apple has never really been a hardware manufacturer and has moved into the entertainment industry with it's iTunes store as the Apple hardware being not much more than a client to access their media, I don't see why an Apple console of sorts would be out of the picture. Although, I do think it would be more focused around something like the Apple TV with a disc drive and a controller. Effectively being a flashy media extender - or another xbox 360/PS3


And before anyone attacks me for having a mac. I dual boot Win7 64 bit with bootcamp to run games such as CoD6, CA, Red Alert 3, Company of heroes, Crysis etc. I'm sure you get the idea. So all in all, they are pretty good for everything. I find that the hardware side of things is a tad more reliable than the third party systems running a Microsoft OS. and Vista was just rubbish.

 

[Max Carter-Smith]

IT's called a Wii.

Besides, WTH would you want apple to make any more new hardware??? Macs= overrated, overpriced crap and Ipad = oversized, WAY OVRHYPED ipod touch.

The ipod is the only decent thing they have. Thats all they should ever make.

It blows my mind that you are so bias and ignorant as to not look at current pricing and specs before posting such a useless reply.

 

[Max Carter-Smith]

Yep, and its going to be called the JEBwench!

Its going to be called iPippininini.

No wait, the iGame or possibly the iPlatform.

The iWastedmymoney?

ya then you will also get endless revisions of the console because they was too lazy to add features everyone else has (or just out to farm money) *cough iPhone*

so you would get iXXXXXX then just a year later! iXXXXX 3g! now with 2 player option and pointless 3G network Features! then iXXXXX 4.2G We made it smaller! Give us moar Monay!

Oh! and dont forget the console will have so much chrome on it, you would have permanent glare if you dared play it in daylight without the curtains drawn! unless they go with bland over the top white which will stand out like a soar thumb xD

This sounds likes Sony's plan for the PS3... PS3 Slim....

 

[Mehall]

I have a Macbook which i've had for four years straight and it's only crashed twice to my knowledge.

I have a Linux machine which has an uptime of around the same amount of time. I'm guessing your Macbook wasn't on constant.

(Also: I really should get it a kernel update.)

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I hear your points.
I'm just curious, as I don't live in Europe, but how many of these same friends own iPhones?
I think Apple is a smart company really, otherwise they wouldn't be a multibillion dollar corporation. I don't think they would lock the console up solely with exclusive content, as that would be a bit counter productive. I understand why the do it with the iPad and other products, but those aren't gaming platforms. I would assume at the very least if they made a console they would do some market research and realize that not having major developers on their console would be a bad financial decision.

In any case this is all speculation on both our parts. I just have a hard time believing that if they were entering a very competitive market that already has established market leaders, that they would limit themselves by not offering things like third party developed software. They only get away with stuff like that in the handheld market because they have practically monopolized it.

as i dont live in europe either, i have a bit of family over there and i have met a good 40 or so foreign exchange students all from different parts of europe, so this is a more general analysis, 2 of them had an iphone, most of them had the standard ipod (this was a few years ago) but when it came to pc's none of them use mac at all. so just some info for the day to chew on.

and idk we will see a change im sure in the itouch/handheld category, with googles phone coming out and a few other ones upgrading, steve jobs himself was getting royally pissed off about it, so they might not hold it for long.

 

[slayer542]

IT's called a Wii.

Besides, WTH would you want apple to make any more new hardware??? Macs= overrated, overpriced crap and Ipad = oversized, WAY OVRHYPED ipod touch.

The ipod is the only decent thing they have. Thats all they should ever make.

It blows my mind that you are so bias and ignorant as to not look at current pricing and specs before posting such a useless reply.

Thats funny. I use macs everyday. I even work at Future Shop (A Canadian version of best-buy) and I deal with all types of computers. I know there specs and prices.

 

[slayer542]

IT's called a Wii.

What does the Wii even have to do with an Apple Console?

Nintendo and Apple are 2 completely different companies you know...

The Wii is basically like a mac product. How can you not see it?

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

This would look so horrible...

It looks kind of like my bin XD
Also please no, we don't need apple in on the console market. Their inevitably high prices would just give the other companies an excuse to charge more in the next console generation, and i doubt it would be much different and certainly not better than anything already in existence

 

[Leviathan_]

IT's called a Wii.

What does the Wii even have to do with an Apple Console?

Nintendo and Apple are 2 completely different companies you know...

The Wii is basically like a mac product. How can you not see it?

The Wii is white and alot of mac products are white.

Yes that's about the only simularity there is.

 

[Thoric485]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCEQZ_4V7NY

I'll just leave that here.

 

[Max Carter-Smith]

IT's called a Wii.

Besides, WTH would you want apple to make any more new hardware??? Macs= overrated, overpriced crap and Ipad = oversized, WAY OVRHYPED ipod touch.

The ipod is the only decent thing they have. Thats all they should ever make.

It blows my mind that you are so bias and ignorant as to not look at current pricing and specs before posting such a useless reply.

Thats funny. I use macs everyday. I even work at Future Shop (A Canadian version of best-buy) and I deal with all types of computers. I know there specs and prices.

Ok, so here is just an example:

Sony Vaio: $1999 15.4" http://www.globalpc.co.nz/Notebooks/Sony-Vaio/Product-Specification-LP03228.aspx
Apple MBP $1999 13.3" http://store.apple.com/nz/browse/home/shop_mac/family/macbook_pro?mco=MTAyNTQzMzk

And remember that Apple use a more durable unibody aluminium casing which is obviously going to cost more in terms of production compared to the plastics of most most third party windows machines.

Also, the Mac unibody case is a heat sync. This means that the mac is virtually silent running - Most windows laptops still use traditional methods of cooling and are therefore, in comparison, loud.


In terms of overhyping a product, it's a marketing strategy that worked and they should be commended for it. It's a commonly used strategy in order to price skim. virtually all electronics and software developers use it to recover R&D costs on release because consumers are irrational. If you didn't understand that sentence, think of Xbox360/PS3. It's also only over hyped because the consumer (you) listens.

In terms of the iPad, I'm not a personal fan. But it's competing with notebooks... Which are heavier, larger and while they may be less versatile than a Dell or Leveno notebook, they sold their 1 millionth iPad in 28 days which shows there is a market for them.

Also, 'There' is in reference to a place.... Their is as in 'it's their product, they own it.'

 

[Max Carter-Smith]

IT's called a Wii.

What does the Wii even have to do with an Apple Console?

Nintendo and Apple are 2 completely different companies you know...

The Wii is basically like a mac product. How can you not see it?

Possibly, but then the Wii did not incorporate media extension services which I would imagine would be the primary function of the Apple console (iTunes store, streaming media). While the gaming side of things I would imagine would appeal to the 'family' gaming industry, much like the Nintendo Wii.

 

[CincoDeMayo]

I don't think Apple belongs in the gaming industry. It took them an eternity to realize there was a gaming industry to begin with, and with their senselessly overpriced goldsprayed pieces of shit hardware I don't think their products will be that attractive, at least not to my eye. Plus, a fourth competitor in the gaming market would only mean that it would take even longer time for games to be released, and as we all know by now multiplatformers usually doesn't keep the same high standard as console exclusive titles. It's no fanboy BS, just a hard fact.

"Too many cooks spoil the broth"

 

[Sougo]

I say Bring it On.
The more the competition the better the deals available for the consumers.

That said, I wudn't buy an apple console. I love my iphone, but Apple's denial of things that actually work (such as flash) really have me peeved.

They'd probably call it iConsole, or iStation, or iPlay, or iBox or some other thing 'I' wants to do.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Just what we need, another shark in the tank.

 

[lifesucksadapt]

OH YEAH! cant wait to see what it looks like and what its gimmick will be if it even has one, so there will be 4 cooperations competing to get the best selling console.

 

[AMMO Kid]

As long as it doesn't have that crappy looking controller it might be a good buy, I guess we'll wait and see...

 

[JasonKaotic]

the iSuckForBuyingThis?

Heh. Couldn't resist.
Nah, there's already too many console brands out. It gets hard enough to choose between the three leading consoles for most people (not me, the only-on-xbox games are too tempting. Although I want inFamous), and if another company started making consoles, the world would fall apart, mass natural disasters would happen, and all of civilisation would be left in ruins as giant mutant space-leopards stormed the world harvesting humans and fucking shit over.
Just a thought.

 

[Korten12]

Yep, and its going to be called the JEBwench!

Its going to be called iPippininini.

No wait, the iGame or possibly the iPlatform.

The iWastedmymoney?

ya then you will also get endless revisions of the console because they was too lazy to add features everyone else has (or just out to farm money) *cough iPhone*

so you would get iXXXXXX then just a year later! iXXXXX 3g! now with 2 player option and pointless 3G network Features! then iXXXXX 4.2G We made it smaller! Give us moar Monay!

Oh! and dont forget the console will have so much chrome on it, you would have permanent glare if you dared play it in daylight without the curtains drawn! unless they go with bland over the top white which will stand out like a soar thumb xD

This sounds likes Sony's plan for the PS3... PS3 Slim....

the ps3 you dont need to get the slim for a improved version though.

 

[Max Carter-Smith]

Yep, and its going to be called the JEBwench!

Its going to be called iPippininini.

No wait, the iGame or possibly the iPlatform.

The iWastedmymoney?

ya then you will also get endless revisions of the console because they was too lazy to add features everyone else has (or just out to farm money) *cough iPhone*

so you would get iXXXXXX then just a year later! iXXXXX 3g! now with 2 player option and pointless 3G network Features! then iXXXXX 4.2G We made it smaller! Give us moar Monay!

Oh! and dont forget the console will have so much chrome on it, you would have permanent glare if you dared play it in daylight without the curtains drawn! unless they go with bland over the top white which will stand out like a soar thumb xD

This sounds likes Sony's plan for the PS3... PS3 Slim....

the ps3 you dont need to get the slim for a improved version though.

Sorry, you're right.... If you get the slim you lose all backwards compatibility. So they wan't to give you a packaged good that has less, for more.