Timi Pungracic said:
Simalacrum said:
Ok, to correct a few people here:
The Pippin was a joint venture with Bandai. They didn't have full control over the product. Furthermore Apple is a very different company to what it was back then.
Whats this about 'every few months'? It may be a joke, but cmon, thats a bit unfair. Besides isn't incremental updates something that is happening already? PS2/3 Slim, 360 Slim, Wii without Wifi to make it cheaper, goodness knows how many PSP/DS iterations...
Sure, a lot of Apple products are expensive, but look at the iPad; competitors are really struggling to meet that match point. Apple can do affordable products; they're just affordable based on their quality, similar to the PS3 which crams a lot more stuff into a slightly more expensive package.
I would make such a decision depending on what the finished product looked like. I certainly don't make a judgement based on rumours and assumptions, Apple is no exception. However, considering I'm an Apple head, and they generally make very good quality products, I'd say yeah sure, I'd probably jump in the bandwagon. Of course, they'd have to cater to the more 'mature' *cough* market before I'd be willing to get one... good games make or break a console, after all.
1. there is a difference beetwen a free update/new better verson of something that doesnt make the version before obsolete, and a new console every few months
2.they are expensive because they are apple products, no other reason
3.competitors struggle to match the iPad? Only on the commercial level, i have seen better tablets that were for half the price and even had extras
4. affordable based on their quality? Daaaaaamn.. then my computer should cost 20.000$
5. I have almost never seen a mature apple fanboy
1. Apple does
annual updates. And besides, most other companies in the computer industry bring out some new version of something every year too. Doesn't mean you have to get them.
2. They're expensive because they're well made. Furthermore, Apple also innovates and changes markets; MP3 players, tablets and phones were all dramatically changed by Apple. I'd rather pay a little bit more money to a company that tries something new, than pay less to a company that does the same-old year after year.
3. You've
seen tablets half the price with extras. Have you actually tried
using one of them? Pretty much all the Android tablets I've laid my hands on so far have felt clunky, slow, and complicated, despite their fancy attachments and big numbers. Besides the newest iPad is by far the most portable tablet of them all, which is incredibly important for a, well, portable device. You're not really going to be messing around with a USB stick on-the-move, in real life scenarios, so such features are kinda useless (as are cameras). And all these tablets either matched or exceeded the
base model iPad in price wait a minute, I meant the opposite! A lot of them exceeded the top-range iPad models, sorry about that
. Anything cheaper generally sacrificed significant features, like screen size.
4. Quality as in build quality, looks, feel, etc. Which, I always argue, is far more important than people give credit for; do people say that the looks and feel of a car don't matter? No, the looks of a car are a very important feature. So why should a computer be made of ugly black/grey plastic and be judged only on speed and practicalities? Macs are expensive because they feel nice to use, with their back-lit keyboards and aluminium finish, as well as their easy-to-use, fancy OS.
5. I hope I've made an impression as a 'mature' Apple fanboy. However, I wasn't referring to 'mature' on that level; I was referring to the type of games 'mature' gamers play, aka. 'hardcore' games (I hate that term so I avoid using it whenever possible). I wouldn't buy a Mac console if all it had was Farmville
