Yahoo Games: Two video game VIPs are cautioning that the company could have a much larger and potentially devastating impact on the home console market.
Valve Software co-founder Gabe Newell and Nat Brown, who was one of the first engineers on Microsoft's Xbox project, have issued warnings about Apple's potential threat. The alerts come amid analyst speculation that Apple may hold an Apple TV-related special event next month.
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P.S. console will never die or be in danger.. and idk why ppl would want it to die?? we just have to keep supporting the great games we have on these consoles.. bcuz GTA/FIFA/Madden/COD. most genres for me are not fun with touch controlled and it just doesnt feel the same.
I'm not business savvy, but I'm intelligent enough to see common sense.
As we know Apple is sitting on 10's of billions.
We know their line-up has started to stagnate
We know their share price has devalued
Some interesting people within the industry(gaming) have come out and expressed concerns about Apple legitimately joining the industry, just to ruin it(subjectivity)
What am I getting at here?
Apple has been getting aggressive, towards their competitiors and within their own company.
Should Apple decide this industry is something they want to expand towards, then we're in for things we probably won't like.
People here are too complacent with how things are or were.. all the back-patting and reassurance doesn't mean squat to the tune of 65+ billion in cash.
I'll probably get disagrees, and that's ok. But even I can see them as a threat to what people call "The Big 3"
My prediction is that both the next box and ps4 will sell less than their predecessors. Why? Because casual gamers are needed to ensure consoles sell ongoing. Those casual gamers have more and more options for gaming in the years ahead.
You make it sound like casual gamers care what is out there, if they did care then they would have joined forces with the nintendo fans and get some wiiu dont you think.
Zynga don't look too good also
The majority of smartphone gaming is simple little stuff like Doodle Jump. That's not sufficient enough to sustain the gaming industry. Hell, the casual market, period, isn't enough. It's caused a large boom in growth, but there are ONLY two options for the casual crowd:
Give up and move on to something else the same way they moved into gaming,
OR
Become core gamers, and want more than just little time wasters.
The large number of casual gamers WILL NOT sustain the industry, because their interest is only casual. It's passing, not serious, and not something you should ever rely on for any lengthy period of time.
Casual gamers HAVEN'T been needed thus far; why are they suddenly needed now? To keep up the same level of sales we've been seeing? It's called a "bubble" for a reason.
YOU hope casual gaming becomes bigger, because it's all YOU want to play. Casual gaming has its place, but it's not as a major influential factor in the industry.
Sorry.
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So many discount touch screen gaming as nothing but casual. 2 years ago would you even have thought ME: Infiltrator would have been possible on a smartphone/tablet. Sure you were being sarcastic but smartphone/tablet gaming is evolving fast. Next gen mobile hardware will eclipse what the devices can do today and so open the door to even more possibilities.
Smartphone/tablet gaming may have originated from a truly casual background but that's no longer the case.
I'll bet if Sony opened the Vita to the Play Store that Vita owners would embrace it, not just for the games but for the many apps now available.
It doesn't matter how better the graphics. You can have any major franchise name on mobile, like Mass Effect for example, but it won't be as good.
Get it through your heads. A touchscreen alone is extremely limiting for gaming. And this isn't about apps.
and that is gonna be sort of like there console version?
someone explain =)
They have no effect on console gaming as much as ppl wish to believe that.
No self respecting gamer would ever say, "fuck it, I want an iPad with horrible touch controls and angry birds over an actual console with amazing games and features!!"
Seriously, do these ppl even listen to how this stuff sounds in their head before opening their mouths????!!!!
I can already here those apple isheep at Cnet.com humping their igarbage and bowing to the igod in anticipatuion of this crap TV idea.
People who own apple are the snobs of the computing world. They don't game nor want to. They need their macs for design and editing software functions.
Stay the $%#^ away apple. Gaming has nothing to do with stature.
Edit: Forgot to mention nintendo.
I don't mind that casuals have the opportunity to play games but I want them to stay away from my beloved consoles otherwise they will suffer the same fate as gamings most casual console the Wii and its successor the Wii U.
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Nothing against the talent behind those iOS games but mostly they were built for people on the go, so it's an outside environment type taken for granted game hence they are not really taken seriously.