Conina said:
And because they failed once they would fail again? The Apple Newton wasn't such a success either, but they tried the PDA-concept a decade later again and combined it with an iPod and a phone and were quite successful with that smartphone. ~300 millions Game Center accounts and 13 billions US$ app-revenue last year (biggest share of the app-revenue = games) indicate that some people like to play on their iPhones and iPads. A new Apple-TV with full game functionality and compatibility to already bought iOS-games would sell millions. You could connect a gamepad to it (over 300 iOS-games are already MFi-compatible, hundreds would follow) or an old iPod touch as input-device for touchscreen-only-games. |
Don't for a second think that beacuse people "love to play on apple ipads/phones" that will in anyway translate to a successful HD home console console. The console hardware business is in no way easy, and it will make zero sense for apple to spend billions trying to get into a market that is already being torn between 3 active players. As it stands, if apple were to make a console tofday it would be very similar to whats already on offer by everyone else so all they will have to differentiate themselves are games which means studios. Truth is, apple stands a better chance cashing in on the game business is=f they just become a game publisher and fund and make special apple multiplatform games. But even that isn't easy cause building a dev team isn't easy.
