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In gaming, do you believe Nintendo and Sony parallel Apple and Microsoft in the PC business?

Yes 34 15.81%
 
No 154 71.63%
 
Somewhat 27 12.56%
 
Total:215
Ruler on 09 February 2016

actually both are like Apple because they make the hardware, Software and even content themself but not overpriced tough



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Teeqoz on 09 February 2016
JNK said:
Teeqoz said:

Hmm. Perhaps in some way. You forgot to include the rest of the story where Apple stagnates and starts relying on substantially weaker hardware than their competitors :-3

 

Furthermore, the NES ans SNES had bigger doses of capitalism than the PS1. Hence why third parties were happy when a notable competitor to Nintendo arose.

uhm apple where do apple use or rely on weaker hardware?

The a9x soc from the iPad air is by far the strongest mobile arm soc ever developed.

The a9 soc is by far the most effency arm soc ever developed. Same performance level like an 8core exynos cpu with just 2 cores.

The Macbook pro uses very strong components, Mac Pro same. Sure those machines arnt made for gaming, but they are still use high end hardware.

Apple also uses the fast harddrive memory available which outperforms modern ssds.

So where is this "weak" hardware?

Macbook Pros have weak hardware for their price class. Same with any macbook. Iphones are massively outperformed by other brand smartphones of similar price. Ipad are about as powerful as their competetion.

Apple relies on selling products in a way higher price class than what their power would suggest. Either overpriced or underpowered, doesn't matter too much.



Azuren on 09 February 2016

I can't bring myself to read the whole thing because of the intense Apple bias. Microsoft threw capitalism at the industry? Right, because they decided they were the ONLY people allowed to make Windows PCs, and then charge an arm and a leg for parts that cost half of the asking price of the machine.

Apple is the one taking advantage of Supply/Demand. MS only started making their own computers in the past few years, and they didn't stop other companies from imitating them.



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Pavolink on 09 February 2016

Oddly, Nintendo wants to be like Apple (profits margin wise). They want to create their own bubble, like the Wii/DS era. Unfortunately, they are able to create it, but not to sustain.



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JNK on 09 February 2016

 

Teeqoz said:

Macbook Pros have weak hardware for their price class. Same with any macbook.

Tell me an similar device with same/similar hardware for an way better priece please.

Teeqoz said:

Iphones are massively outperformed by other brand smartphones of similar price. Ipad are about as powerful as their competetion.

Really?

 

Teeqoz said:

Apple relies on selling products in a way higher price class than what their power would suggest. Either overpriced or underpowered, doesn't matter too much.

uhm...nope.

 

You have some really bad information my friend ;) The iPhone 6s is the fastest phone on the market. The iPad Pro is as strong as full i7 x86 tablets. Other ARM-Devices arnt even in its league.



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Uabit on 09 February 2016

And also Microsoft is like Microsoft.



Frogger on 09 February 2016

Not for the reasons you've stated.



nanorazor on 09 February 2016

They all want to be Apple right now. so far, no gaming company is really like Apple.



Teeqoz on 09 February 2016
JNK said:

 

Teeqoz said:

Macbook Pros have weak hardware for their price class. Same with any macbook.

Tell me an similar device with same/similar hardware for an way better priece please.

Teeqoz said:

Iphones are massively outperformed by other brand smartphones of similar price. Ipad are about as powerful as their competetion.

Really?

 

Teeqoz said:

Apple relies on selling products in a way higher price class than what their power would suggest. Either overpriced or underpowered, doesn't matter too much.

uhm...nope.

 

You have some really bad information my friend ;) The iPhone 6s is the fastest phone on the market. The iPad Pro is as strong as full i7 x86 tablets. Other ARM-Devices arnt even in its league.

Iphone 6s+ is about 400$ more expensive than a Note 5 lol. I said "similar price point". Meanwhile, a Galaxy S6 (which is still substantially cheaper than and Iphone 6s plus mind you) has about twice the gflops for its GPU, two times the CPU power, 3 times the RAM, 1440p vs Iphone 6s plus' 1080p, and I could go on.

Your graph is for single core performance.... And it doesn't even feature the CPU that an S6 has. Heck, it doesn't even feature the CPU that an Iphone 6S plus has lol. But single core performance isn't everything you know. The iphone 6s plus only has 2 cores, while the galaxy S6 has 8 cores that also have higher clock rates.

 

Now that we have the phones out of the way, let's go to PCs.

http://www.amazon.com/CPU-Solutions-3-6ghz-Windows-GTX960/dp/B017WQ6L5C/ref=sr_1_5?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455030470&sr=1-5&keywords=pc&refinements=p_n_feature_seven_browse-bin%3A3012497011%2Cp_36%3A100000-200000%2Cp_n_feature_five_browse-bin%3A13580790011%7C13580788011

That thing has similar hardware to top of the line imacs... Keep in mind it is about half the price, but imacs come with screens. Throw in a 4k screen and it's only 1000$ cheaper than an imac.



Farsala on 09 February 2016

Apple and MS are massively successful and dominant for years on end in many divisions.

Nintendo isn't dominant in the console space, and Sony isn't dominant everywhere else.