| ChichiriMuyo said: Apple will be Apple, that's what. They already have (one of) the best content delivery system in place. MS and Sony are still scrambling to set something up that's even remotely comparable. Apple will be able to just say: "sure, our competition is trying to do what we do but we actually, you know, do it. Out of the box, today, not sometime in the future like our competition." While Apple can't compete on the gaming side, that's simply not what they want anyway. They want to run the content delivery system, not make the content. And if you say "our machine is in 10 million homes and can play games as well as the Wii and nearly as well as the 360" then 3rd parties will be happy to develop games for your system. The gaming aspect of such a product would not be the meat and potatos, as it were. It'd be the gravy. Extra money on top of Apple's primary source of income. They really don't want to make the games, they just want to sell them. |
There was only one word I could think of reading this entire post, and it was this:
"Steam"
Not relevant to consoles I know, but you're talking about Apple's delivery systems in the forms of iTunes yeah? Are you talking relatively of digitally distributed games for a specific console? If so I don't think that's going to happen for a long time yet in the gaming world.
Maybe Apple could test the waters though, in producing a Steam like system for iMacs to begin with, and whilst it probably wouldn't hit huge numbers of people, it'd certainly be possible for them to maybe intergrate a system into iTunes, they've already got TV and Movies in there alongside music right? PC / Mac games would be a step towards domination, but getting past Valve on that front would be a war already lost I imagine.
