Apple just announced a price hike for its popular Apple Arcade service effective immediately, and it's proportionally a rather sizable increase. The new price is $6.99 a month, meaning a 40% increase over the previous $4.99.
The price hike for Apple Arcade was accompanied by similar increases for other subscription services by the company. For instance, Apple TV was increased from $6.99 to $9.99.
Sonic Dream Team, the new 3D action-adventure Sonic the Hedgehog game, exclusively makes its way to Apple Arcade.
Well darn. I've been wanting a sonic adventure and Sega just makes it exclusive to Apple. A hole move sega.
It does kind of look like that, but I'd wait for more video first for confirmation.
Apple obviously paid for exclusivity. Imagine playing a game like this on a touchscreen tho.. No thanks.
They haven't confirmed support to controllers yet. But a lot of Apple Arcade can be played with one and the cheapest/best entry point is the $140 Apple TV 4K.
Don't think it's worth it just for playing Sonic, but if you are also in business for a TV Box. It is a very solid option and rather on the cheap side, weirdly enough.
Sega d move guys make it console and pc too we'll play fr. You can make $20 or f2p and I'll join in.
Well, if that's the case I won't b playing it. Good luck to you on this one, Sega.
Apple's new headset is coming next year, and will launch with over 100 Apple Arcade games and have support for Unity-based games.
Whatever happened to Microsofts Augmented reality glasses? That came out years ago and no one really cared lol. I guess that tech is pretty cool. Not $3500 cool though.
Hololens was never going to live up to the hype. I've used them quite a bit when I was working in VR and they are interesting, but getting a clear consistent image in AR glasses is probably impossible. The only way is to design it like a vr headset but with a camera so you can overlay on top of the captured video stream.
Microsoft cancelled it completely recently and laid off pretty much everyone involved in its development.
Also it's $3500 so overpriced as usual from Apple. Maybe in 5-10 years it will be worth it.
Except everyone writing those articles probably spends over $1000 on apple products every year anyway, so I'm sure "the apple quality is worth it."
The way I see it, the price is justifiable in Apples eye's is because there's the 'PRO' word attached to the product.
That there is an automatic extra $1000!!!
the crazy thing about the "PSVR2 too expensive" articles is that they did not even make mathematical sense. They were comparing apples to oranges.
Yeah.
You won't see my defending Apple and their crazy price points, but I do have a MacBook Pro and I think it's worth it for the sheer productivity value and app suite (I mainly do research, but I also write/publish, do project management, and data analysis). Idk, it just works for my work.
Do I hate their outlandish prices? Yep! They're good and well out of their minds.
This is the same company that charges you $700 for a set of fucking wheels
https://www.apple.com/shop/...
The last time I gave Apple any money was for an Apple ][, and that will be the last time
$3499 and it won't fit over your glasses, so you'll have to fork over even more for special lenses.
A products value and worth is subjective a 100k tractor seems pointless to a office worker.
But in this instance Apple has been sniffing their own farts again
Unfortunately, I doubt that.
Never underestimate their enthusiasts. They'll likely make a killing in San Francisco, Denver, and New York City alone.
At $3500, will any store stock it? The most returned item to Best Buy has to be the VR headsets..
I will wait until the non pro version releases for $1000 but this would be good for someone who doesn't own a Mac or a TV and is likely the only way VR/AR ever become mainstream.
Honestly the Vision Pro was never intended to be a mass-market consumer product.
This is more aimed at developers but with the long-term goal of eventually getting the form factor down to a pair of regular looking glasses. As someone with not the best eyes, the health features being touted down the road, automatic lens adjustment and of course advances in AR tech means I'm interested in that end product. Unfortunately, even for Apple, that's probably a decade away.
Having another player in the market will hopefully encourage everyone to push on with this tech to get to that end goal. It has the potential to be as important as the smartphone.
It’s about the apps also, by the time it goes mainstream it’ll have a decent library of apps ready to go.
I'd understand that argument if they showed it off in a work environment similar to the hololense but this was basically hey look you can play games and see your photos and watch it on a plane while looking like a total tool we know you want it because we put a logo on it.
If the product isn't picked up by a market segment it will die then all these ideas will never trickle down to an affordable price point.
"It’s about the apps also, by the time it goes mainstream it’ll have a decent library of apps ready to go."
Yes exactly , hence why it was announced at the WorldWide Developers Conference. This is a stepping stone to releasing something far more consumer friendly in future. And during that transition, they get to work with third parties to build into their ecosystem.
"I'd understand that argument if they showed it off in a work environment similar to the hololense"
HoloLens journey actually went the other way imo. It started off with big ideals of being a big consumer product before Microsoft established what most others have - it's a cool bit of tech that doesn't really solve problems that the majority of people have. It was even shown at E3, not once but twice to demonstrate games. Then it was put on the same shelf as Illumiroom, never to be seen again.
PSVR2 isn’t AR, is tethered to a console, doesn’t have Micro OLED, doesn’t have dedicated audio, has lower resolution, isn’t as bright, and most importantly is a mass market product in which the Vision Pro is not.
I mean you get what you pay for with psvr2 though...With apple that's never a sure thing...see wheels for $700 and stand for $1000.
@jin: “PSVR2 isn’t AR, is tethered to a console”
Did you missed the presentation and just skip to the psvr2 attack mode?🤷🏿
The device is tether to a power line or you could buy their power bank for a 2 hours “roaming free”
"Did you missed the presentation and just skip to the psvr2 attack mode?🤷🏿
The device is tether to a power line or you could buy their power bank for a 2 hours “roaming free”
Sorry, I don't want to come across as aggressive but that's missing the point entirely. The Vision Pro has both M2 and R1 Apple silicon chips inside. It IS the computer. It runs everything natively. PSVR2 is a completely different type of device. Just because they are worn on your head, doesn't mean they should be compared. If you can't understand the difference in price, then you are the one who needs to watch the presentation again.
Except name a big time Apple Game you that have to play and tell me it’s worth $3500? Apple is great at launching new product lines and getting Mass adaptation. The problem with this is I think they priced themselves out and it’s not consumer ready.
With its simple gameplay design, "Illustrated" is easy to pick up and enjoy, whether you have a few minutes or a few hours to spare.
These companies still acting like we’re in a pandemic. What’s the excuse now?
WHAT
to be fair tho, who plays apple arcade anyways. but damn, 40% is alot.
A company who will never get tired of greed!!!! 🤦🏽♂️
$2 is not a “massive” price hike. But I do think people are going to push back against subscription services and especially subscription software.
Insane that every sub is sky rocketing with insane amount of ads like I'm watching cable now. YouTube is even worse now with the new ad system inget an ad on every video No matter the length. Crazy thing is TV cable wnlentnup double digi for the first time in awhile and I can see it going higher with all these subs costing so much with ad to lol