| dib8rman said: Ah good for you, the realXtend seems like a wierd concept - then again I kind of understand... I'd have to read some more about i, but it's not gaining my interest. I'm a simple guy I guess - if I'm not interested I don't pursue it.. it's worked well for me, it's how I determine if I would buy something, then why and then invest. I see it as being general apps though, similar to what you were describing, the difference though is that seems like a running window, I'm reffering to Home being an application driven virtual space, that is a game. But I don't believe Home in it's currentlly known direction is sellable even with XMB, maybe 20 milion installed on that platform before it begins to grind unless it can catch a 'cool' wave or has 'must have' content. But this is about can apple own the living room. So my answer is maybe - I'm not sure if they want to, From what I can tell, they are making a round about trip to dominate the Laptop market by making a smaller laptop with half the functions.. it's very similar to the patter of the Wii, The Wii was released with very few add-ons and a very unique kind of selection as to how it could be defined, as time went on new elements were added to it. Home seems to be an a simulator on the greater end, I'm not sure how a demographic who would buy 4 million copies of CoD and 2 million copies of Drake Fortuen and so on and so forth would react to a simulator... of course it's free, but that last thing I want in my video games is DLC or in game advertizments. The more I think about it the more pointless the original question seems, has Apple announced a console? Or does he mean the living room enetertainment set? Sterio, Tv, Dvd player and so on? I just assumed since this is a gaming site the OP meant consoles. |
Well, at the moment realXtend is in pre-alpha stages, so it's going to change a lot, get more advanced. From what I understood, the idea behind realXtend is the openness of it: it is a platform for creating virtual worlds, services and whatever you can imagine. Of course, since it's running on a PC now, it's an application running in a window, but there's no reason why it couldn't be what Home perhaps will be. But like you said, this is not about Apple. And about Apple, I don't believe they will enter the game console market, though they might extend the Apple TV such that you can download apps from the AppStore. But at the current rate, calling Apple TV a hobby, it doesn't seem that Apple is that interested in taking over the living room. Of course, it could all be a smoke screen...
