Casuals aren't going to buy shit. They have an iPhone with an App Store. So there goes that entire market.Apple apps store is the place to be. It sells more games than the other sur combine.
Apple is richer than the USA. They can do whatever they want.
Not only casuals play on mobile, everyone does. There is something for everyone.
A M1 Switch at 399/499$ could be a killer. They need 3rd parties and a few exclusives.
Ted Lasso is fucking good man.Casuals aren't going to buy shit. They have an iPhone with an App Store. So there goes that entire market.
For a portable console to survive it has to have hardcore gamer support. They aren't getting that with Ubisoft ports. It takes exclusives or don't bother.
Also, it doesn't matter how much money Apple has if consumers don't give a shit. Roku shitting on Apple TV, TV+ is about 1 season of Ted Lasso away from losing most of their subs yet they are simply going to roll into the gaming market, one of the hardest markets to break into, with a piece of hardware and the App Store? lol k.
They don't care which is why they may try to enter the gaming market, flounder for a few years publicly calling it a 'hobby' and inevitably stop making new gaming-centric hardware at some point in the future.Ted Lasso is fucking good man.
They have all the money. The only question is: do they care?
Competition is healthy and could drive Sony to be more innovative.Apple can crash and burn. I don’t want them in the gaming hardware business.
We’ll see soon enough. A high end VR headset is say to come in 2021 or 2022.They don't care which is why they may try to enter the gaming market, flounder for a few years publicly calling it a 'hobby' and inevitably stop making new gaming-centric hardware at some point in the future.
Bottomline, if Apple tries to enter the gaming market with hardware and if they also do not spend $20-30 billion minimum on developers and IP along with that they may as well not bother.
Apple and Google have the same grave yards filled with new products. This will most likely join them.
Hinges on price and support. They could put out a very powerful portable with the chips they have.......and Nintendo needs a kick in the ass, competition would be good. Imagine if MS and Sony decided to support it as 3rd party developers, all of the sudden Nintendo would have a crisis.
Look at Switch's software sales bud.Hinges on price and support. They could put out a very powerful portable with the chips they have.......and Nintendo needs a kick in the ass, competition would be good. Imagine if MS and Sony decided to support it as 3rd party developers, all of the sudden Nintendo would have a crisis.
So 3 then.But 3rd parties seem so invested in X86 now with technically 3 revenues streams, 4 if you count Stadia.
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bought an Apple TV
gaming on it.
really like it.
Competition is good sure, but what you described probably wont make Nintendo sweat. As long as they can sell hardware that plays Mario Kart and Pokemon they will be fine.
Look at Switch's software sales bud.
First party software makes up nearly all their software and hardware sales.
We've had a lot of handhelds come over the years and boast better third party support and graphics than Nintendo's offerings and still get killed.
List of best-selling Nintendo Switch video games - Wikipedia
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Tell that to the Gamecube and the Wii U.
No games, no exclusives, and how would ARM vs X86 work out? I love the idea of a great ARM console more powerful than the switch, and able to compete with X86 consoles. But 3rd parties seem so invested in X86 now with technically 3 revenues streams, 4 if you count Stadia. I'm not a programmer, So I don't know how easy it would be for multi platform developers even if the M1X or whatever has a decent GPU. Would it just end up being a console for Switch ports and Mobile phone games on the big screen? Also Apple never releases anything cheap.
Gamecube probably still made Nintendo money. Wii U wasn't because of competition though, that was entirely Nintendos own fuck up.
You're talking like the PSP didn't get exclusive 3D GTA's and COD's. Now if Apple were to get third party support it would be 1) stuff that is already on Switch or 2) Stuff that's on Xbox, Playstation, Stadia, Steamdeck.The vacuum of no other options on a handheld has put them in a position to sell a lot of their exclusives, some of which are fantastic. I'm a switch owner. But.......
No handheld that has ever hit the market from any other competitor has had better software to date. The Vita never had Sony's full attention, heck, not even half of it, and it failed to sell enough units for proper third party support either. And what else exactly came out that was property supported? Nothing.
This could change - and they should be worried about this.
Your math is way off.Both are considered failures, and prove the point that Nintendo doesn't live in a bubble.
What I described would 100% for sure take a massive bite out of nintendos pie regardless of thier exclusives. (Assuming stock levels exist and price point is similar)
not until apple get IP's that are worth itIf this is true Nintendo has one hell of a fight on its hands.
The Steam Deck will probably stay a niche productI think the Steamdeck is a bigger threat than this thing would be. The iPhone has been out there for a decade with tons of games that aren't on Nintendo hardware, Nintendo themselves are a third party on the device to an extent, and Nintendo is doing great business right now. Yet another iOS device won't matter - if anything it'll just take a few already existing iOS gamers away from iPhone.
People have been waiting a decade for Apple to knock out Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony.
The problem with an avatar like this:The Steam Deck will probably stay a niche product
It may have a little fan like the switch and i think steamdeck, which has RT.Raytracing on a passively cooled portable is simply a non-starter. Whatever is the implementation it will be too weak to achieve anything meaningful.
If this report is even true, the RT part will be a meaningless tick-box feature that doesn't achieve much outside of the most barebones RT effects at super low resolution, but to the detriment of the rest of the raster graphics being rendered.
I think the Ipad Mini could have easily won the handheld battle if it was priced competitively. £479 starting price is a MASSIVE NOPE!
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Look at Switch's software sales bud.
Apple sold over 425 million iPads since the original debuted in 2010. This is maybe more (or almost) than all portable consoles in gaming history including Switch ever sold combined.This thing would be too expensive for casual gamers and its library too casual for hardcore ones, I don't see this being a threat for the Switch.
I know Apple makes a shitton of money of games, but most people don't buy their devices specifically for gaming. I really doubt an iConsole would be nearly as successful as iPhones and iPads.I think it could do the job maybe a smaller, cheaper iPad Mini with tvout mixed with an official, properly ergonomic Apple joycon-like attachments that could be connected together to the sides of any smarphone or tablet to turn them into a Pro Controller-like to play in this device, on the tv or in tabletop method and also as the standard iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV controller.
Something like this, but better (imagine to have the left and right sides of a Pro-Controller or DualSense in the sides):
I don't know the iPad Mini hardware sales, but maybe they already are bigger than Switch/3DS/Vita/PSP sales. They sell a shit ton of smartphones and tablets.
And if we look at the money made with games, Apple gets more revenue from gaming than Nintendo without making 1st party games:
Top Public Video Game Companies | By Revenue | Newzoo
Newzoo's Top Video Game Companies ranking is updated every quarter. Features the top public video game companies by revenues.newzoo.com
Mobile gaming market is so huge, over half of the gaming market:
Sure, an iConsole wouldn't be as successful as phones and ipads. But could be more successful than most consoles or portables, if not all by only reusing and maybe tweaking a bit their existing iOS & Mac hardware and games catalog.I know Apple makes a shitton of money of games, but most people don't buy their devices specifically for gaming. I really doubt an iConsole would be nearly as successful as iPhones and iPads.
You may have missed this post, I suggest you to read it.These fools don't have a clue about gaming.