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if apple enters the gaming industry i wouldn care, but if they buy sony like a previous article mentioned "I'M OUT!"



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Mummelmann said:
Baalzamon said:
Cobretti2 said:
Ostro said:

99,9999% of the haters don't know shit about Apple and their products.

 

I rather pay "overpriced" stuff that lasts 10 years instead of a crappy PC that has to be modded every 2-3 years and/or replaced & cleaning up the system all the time.


my PC laptop has last 6 years so far haven't formatted. It has been running 24/7 for the last three years with a few reboots here and there whilst i installed updates or software. 

 

it is all about how to treat your hardware that will determine the life of it. Not a shiny apple on the back lol.

Exactly.  Not to mention, I would really like to see his 10 year old computer play Starcraft 2, LOL

I'd like to see it play games at all... Mac isn't exactly a gamers heaven.

very good point, hahahahahaha



Money can't buy happiness. Just video games, which make me happy.

Acevil said:
Seece said:
hatmoza said:

ugh, could you imagine the Apple fanboys ... I just don't want to think about this anymore.


I don't think ANYONE wants them in the industry except Apple themselves, Apple fanboys and Activision probably ...


Seriously I think Apple is the only thing that would actually unite us gamers for one common annoying enemy. 

LOL! THIS!



I dont think they can.

"I" anything is never the best product, its just a style brand.



I don't see how they could with no first party studios for games. They can only do so much with no exclusives. 



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Ostro said:

99,9999% of the haters don't know shit about Apple and their products.

 

I rather pay "overpriced" stuff that lasts 10 years instead of a crappy PC that has to be modded every 2-3 years and/or replaced & cleaning up the system all the time.


iPods and iPhone are cool but iPad and Mac computers are a joke. I had to use Macs for a photography class in Grade 10 and I hated those computers. 



What if Apple enlisted help from all the major third party publishers when designing the system. So it's easy to program and has none of the bottlenecks of their current gen competitors (RAM, Disc Drive speeds,etc).They make exclusive deals on some AAA titles (or at least timed-releases).Use digital distribution to offer publishers higher profit margins from games ($30-40 instead of $10-30 because of reduced overhead from super low liscensing and bandwidth usage fees) and lure in customers by selling digital copies of titles sooner (days or weeks before physical copy) and for cheaper (50USD instead of 60).

Of course, they'd have to price the system at 400USD or less for the most barebones version and  they could'nt come out with iGAME 2nd Gen 18-24 months later. I know there are a million ps3 and 360 sku's but aside from the silm verisons being more efficient, there aren't any major internal advances (like more Ram or a whole new CPU/GPU).



If Apple designed an iCouch (or whatever silly name they landed on) that incorporated everything I needed for the livingroom, with TV, movies, games, apps, internet, music, and similar on hand, all with a reasonably priced app store, all integrated with iPhone, iPad, iPad, and similar (oh, and Mac), I'd probably buy one if the price was right.

It wouldn't really be a games console, but then this is Apple, they would likely attack the market from a different angle (further, is a PS3 or 360 really just a games console, anyway? well, no). It would need it's USP, but Apple would likely come up with something if they put they're boffins on it.