Digitally Downloaded writes: "If you'd played some of the better iPad games over AirPlay, such as Gameloft's Modern Combat or Firemonkey's Real Racing 2, you'd realise that these games do offer the full console experience in every way but for the lack of buttons. With this new hardware peripheral we will have an effective fourth home console fighting for our time and money."
Retro gaming console emulator apps are now welcome on the Apple App Store and can even offer downloadable games.
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
Epic Games winning its cases against both Apple and Google is shaping the way forward for the future of mobile gaming.
I feel alot of mobile gamers are kids which will at some point probably turn to console or pc. Mobile gaming just doesn't cut it for me.
Millions of people are already playing games on iOS. And Apple is already making serious money on gaming apps alone.
The tens of millions of people who bought a Wii for Wii Sports did not prevent games like Bioshock, Skyrim, Witcher, Mass Effect, etc, etc from hitting the market. The iPhone didn't prevent the DS and PSP from becoming two of the best-selling handhelds of all time.
Apple releasing a controller isn't suddenly going to make core games vanish, even though the Apple cultists would want you to believe it.
Now the only thing they need is real games!
a controller? just because you attach a controller to something doesn't make it a competitor for the game industry, hell there have been tons of controllers released for smart devices and tablets, hasn't changed a damn thing for consoles.
Games on iPad and other mobile devices will never replace game consoles. No true gamer would say, "wow I'm totally selling my ps3 360 and wii today and going to go buy a tiny mobile device and play a simple $10 game and a crappy add on controller ASAP!!!!"
The experience is far too limiting and unfulfilling. Nothing more than a quick 10, 20 min bus ride or lunch break activity. Simple as that.