What if...Apple announces iPhone + iPad connectivity to TV screens and release a gaming controller at their 12th Sept press conference...

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man-bear-pig on 11 September 2012

bananaking21 said:

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if apple tries to make a move to get into the gaming industry and compete for the hardcore market they will be crushed...

Doubt it. They'll already have an install base of over 300 million...

yeah but those 300 million devices were not bought to be played on, yes gaming on tablets and smartphones has grown a lot. but poeple dont buy iphones because of angry birds, they buy it because if iOS the apps(apps such as whats app and skype not games), the features and the connectivity to the interent and all that stuff, gaming is just an extra thing. i dont say the iphone will stop selling i mean what ever they announce to attract the core and hard core gamer will fail miserably at doing so

Yeah, but lots of iDevice owners are also console gamers...So they wouldn't need to buy any new consoles because their iDevice already does the job

but does it do the job really? just because the controller is there doesnt mean its a hardcore gaming machine... does it produce good graphics? not really yes ther good for mobiles but not gaming consoles. does it have any exclusives? no...... any third party games? not really.... so it has games like temple run and angry birds.... ok does it have any proper online network? no..... are the biggest sellers of the industry on it? CoD no, GTA no, battliefield no, assasins creed (not a stupid game or app but a full sized game) no...... so why would any self respecting gamer want to play games on this instead of a Ps3, 360, WiiU, 3ds, or vita?

Once Apple release a controller, the 3rd parties would come a knockin'. Besides, iOS has lots of exclusives...

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man-bear-pig on 11 September 2012

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Nothing would happen, why would that change anything? just that now you could connect your ipad to your tv. If this is a serious question i think it's pointless. :/

You seriously think that turning 300 million iDevices into home consoles wouldnt have any effect...?

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man-bear-pig on 11 September 2012

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Then the world would explode.

Why would that happen?

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sethnintendo on 11 September 2012

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A good question would be... Why the hell hasn't anyone made a controller for it yet? Seems like easy money to me.

I know. madness.

You should make a kickstarter project for it! I am sure you could raise enough money. The only thing that I see close to it that comes up after typing kickstarter ipad controller into Google would be the GameDock (retro controller).

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cascadiagames/gamedock-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch-devices

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bananaking21 on 11 September 2012

Yeah, but lots of iDevice owners are also console gamers...So they wouldn't need to buy any new consoles because their iDevice already does the job

but does it do the job really? just because the controller is there doesnt mean its a hardcore gaming machine... does it produce good graphics? not really yes ther good for mobiles but not gaming consoles. does it have any exclusives? no...... any third party games? not really.... so it has games like temple run and angry birds.... ok does it have any proper online network? no..... are the biggest sellers of the industry on it? CoD no, GTA no, battliefield no, assasins creed (not a stupid game or app but a full sized game) no...... so why would any self respecting gamer want to play games on this instead of a Ps3, 360, WiiU, 3ds, or vita?

Once Apple release a controller, the 3rd parties would come a knockin'. Besides, iOS has lots of exclusives...

yeah it does, but im talking about the hardcore market here and do those exclusives stand a chance next to the likes of uncharted, halo, gt, gears, god of war, mario or zelda? not a chance

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man-bear-pig on 11 September 2012

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AppleTV?

That would require people to purchase an AppleTV first though. I just talking about a generic lead which allows iDevices to be connected to any TV screen

With Apple, there is nothing generic and it would cost $100 -- or more.

And something like this would probably only work for an iPad --- which is 2x the cost of a console now.

If this feature was implemented then it could only have a positive effect on iPad sales. (they sell 14 million iPads every 3 months, and a bonus feature such as console gaming capabilities would only increase this)

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mike_intellivision on 11 September 2012

kowenicki said:

mike_intellivision said:

man-bear-pig said:

TomaTito said:

AppleTV?

That would require people to purchase an AppleTV first though. I just talking about a generic lead which allows iDevices to be connected to any TV screen

With Apple, there is nothing generic and it would cost $100 -- or more.

And something like this would probably only work for an iPad --- which is 2x the cost of a console now. (Because dumping an iPhone game to a TV would result is a blocky, small pix -- just look at iPhone apps on an iPad).

Mike from Morgantown

The official lead I bought from the apple store to allow me to connect my ipad2 to a TV was £25 I think, I am sure it would work with my iphone (never tried it)

I stand corrected. This can be done through AirPlay with Apple TV. The cable (from Apple) for iPad to Composite (RCA cables) is $39 USD.

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