Would you buy a Apple made videogame console?


  

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  1. 1. Would you buy a Apple made videogame console?

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Not a chance in hell would I buy one. At the moment, I don't ever plan on buying another Apple product ever. The iPhone 4 fiasco and lack of a real response/solution has really soured me on Apple products.

Plus, I'd be afraid if something ever went wrong, it'd be my fault because I was holding something wrong.

"Yes, the video out isn't working correctly."

"That's because you're holding the controller the wrong way."

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Not a chance in hell would I buy one. At the moment, I don't ever plan on buying another Apple product ever. The iPhone 4 fiasco and lack of a real response/solution has really soured me on Apple products.

Plus, I'd be afraid if something ever went wrong, it'd be my fault because I was holding something wrong.

"Yes, the video out isn't working correctly."

"That's because you're holding the controller the wrong way."

:laugh:

How long did it take you to come up with that one? Oh wait, you just reiterated the same awful joke somebody made earlier in the thread.

To the topic in hand, I already own the Apple 'console': iPhone and iPad.

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Just to make a point, this "holding it wrong thing" is getting old, and especially in this context. It would be like me saying, back in 2000, that I would never buy a Microsoft game console because it would BSOD all the time.

Too bad Microsoft made that a reality in 2005, except they called it the RROD. Kidding. :p

It isn't exactly getting old. It's pretty darn recent tbf :p Personally I'd still buy an Iphone 4, and don't think it's a particularly big issue, but it makes a nice joke :D

Apple already declared itself the worlds biggest Game publisher / game hardware developer.......

No. ****ing. Way. Just because the iphone has some games on it, or do they have a legitimate reason to claim that? ^^

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How long did it take you to come up with that one? Oh wait, you just reiterated the same awful joke somebody made earlier in the thread.

To the topic in hand, I already own the Apple 'console': iPhone and iPad.

SO what's it to ya then? I have purchased each one of the iPhones and two iPods, an iMac and a MacBook Pro. I have the right to complain about a POS product and a POS company that treats their customers like ****.

So the answer to the question is NO based on my view of Apple at the moment. So what's your issue with what I said? :rolleyes:

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It doesn't fit in Apple's business principles to sell something at a loss which they will need to do if they produce something on par with 360/ps3 (or whatever the next thing is). I think Apple's margins are typically 25+% (I could be wrong here) - imagine price of a Xbox360 like console with 25% premium at launch. They will easily go in 500+ price range.

Additionally they want you to buy the same thing every few years (Macs, iPods, iPhones and now iPads) = making previous hardware obsolete every two years will be the shortest console cycle yet! :D

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It isn't exactly getting old. It's pretty darn recent tbf :p Personally I'd still buy an Iphone 4, and don't think it's a particularly big issue, but it makes a nice joke :D

No. ****ing. Way. Just because the iphone has some games on it, or do they have a legitimate reason to claim that? ^^

I'm looking for the slide but Jobs had a whole set of slides where he talked about how great apple's gaming was and how it was tons of times larger then the console market that exists today blah blah apple bs etc

It doesn't fit in Apple's business principles to sell something at a loss which they will need to do if they produce something on par with 360/ps3 (or whatever the next thing is). I think Apple's margins are typically 25+% (I could be wrong here) - imagine price of a Xbox360 like console with 25% premium at launch. They will easily go in 500+ price range.

Additionally they want you to buy the same thing every few years (Macs, iPods, iPhones and now iPads) = making previous hardware obsolete every two years will be the shortest console cycle yet! :D

heck they wouldn't even use Blu-Ray oh wait they dont even use it now :laugh:

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Apple already declared itself the worlds biggest Game publisher / game hardware developer.......

apple is micromanaged by king jon il then.

but they did try with the Pippin and that was a disaster. lol

i dont think apple could dominate the market with a console even if it was not "tied down" as ppl have said in other posts.

the 360 and ps3 have a stong foot hold on this gen and next.

Apple have their Itouch platform for casual gamers but lets be honest that platform is never going to be anything more

than a neich market.

if sega decided to re-enter the console arena they would have to pull some thing speical to wow us.

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apple is micromanaged by king jon il then.

but they did try with the Pippin and that was a disaster. lol

i dont think apple could dominate the market with a console even if it was not "tied down" as ppl have said in other posts.

the 360 and ps3 have a stong foot hold on this gen and next.

Apple have their Itouch platform for casual gamers but lets be honest that platform is never going to be anything more

than a neich market.

if sega decided to re-enter the console arena they would have to pull some thing speical to wow us.

You don't want to see the all new iGame Pad?

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Apple already declared itself the worlds biggest Game publisher / game hardware developer.......

By that logic Nokia would hold that title and by a wide margin.:p

No, I will not buy it. Infact only Apple allowed here is the eatable one.;)

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No, and my reasons are as follows:

*Most likely a closed system

*Most likely would be digital downloads only

I don't mind arcade games being digital downloads however I have around 25 retail games and go back and play them once in awhile it's nice to be able to have a physical copy for the reason.

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Someone said Apple would not gain any profit.

Do keep in mind that while the other consoles would be priced (example) at 300, Apple's would be, no matter what is inside, at 500 so they would problably make a profit.

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No. There'd be all sorts of inane restrictions on it.. games that don't pass their moral guidelines would never see the light of day on it. I can make my own decisions, thank you.

There's also already enough consoles as it is; don't need another one to 'fragment' the gaming market even more. Nothing like buying a high end console, just to have a game you really like only be available for the other, etc etc.

There's the price. Apple is known for a lot of things, but being competitively priced isn't one of them.

Plus, I like my controllers having more than one button. (Cheap shot, sorry.)

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Apple has never been very good at supporting gaming on their systems (at least, until the ipod touch/iphone/ipad) and I wouldn't think that they would be very good at producing a game system. It appears that all of the games distributed through their app store are made by third parties and while an Apple-designed system would probably be good looking I don't think it would be competitively priced. Apple tends to charge a premium for their products and would hardly push new technologies (like Blu-ray or 3D displays). Apple's computers are usually skimpy on ram and hard disk space (plus the Apple-branded stuff is always high priced).

Can anyone imagine trying to use an Apple game controller? It probably wouldn't have any buttons! :laugh:

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I voted yes but it's under the assumption it would offer something to differentiate it from the competitors, be it exclusives or not. If it had no exclusives I wanted then no, probabaly not.

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Apple already declared itself the worlds biggest Game publisher / game hardware developer.......

If this is true then Apple have gone so far past deluded now that it is beyond belief. So the ipad/iphone/ipod touch has shifted more units than Nintendo's product line up? I doubt that. Unless they mean in terms of innovation. In which case they lose even more.

Games publisher? Maybe if there was a category titled "Biggest Publisher to Projectile Vomit Poor Mini Games Into The Market"

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No. There'd be all sorts of inane restrictions on it.. games that don't pass their moral guidelines would never see the light of day on it. I can make my own decisions, thank you.

Do you really think the existing consoles don't have to pass "moral guidelines"? Nintendo, Sony and MS don't allow any game on their console....Why do you think there's no adult games? Believe me it's not because there's no market ;)

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Do you really think the existing consoles don't have to pass "moral guidelines"? Nintendo, Sony and MS don't allow any game on their console....Why do you think there's no adult games? Believe me it's not because there's no market ;)

No, of course not. But it's nowhere near as strict as anything that Apple allows. Probably won't even allow any sort of public voice chat, because somebody might say the F word. They've already blocked other apps because of just the potential.

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Apple's console would be like the Wii, underpowered but overpriced and they'd play it off as the most awesomely magical system out there that can play anything that is not violent because the world needs less violence and no sex because porn is bad mmmk leave that for Sony and MS

and it will be called the Apple iWii after they buy out Nintendo first, and Mii's will be rebranded as I's

So they're going to start removing films/tv shows with violence from the iTunes Store then?

Oh right, they're not.

Although I do like the part about buying Nintendo and I's :laugh:

It's quite funny that people only choose to remember the stuff they want. But like to forget when Nintendo had the closed system for games and this badge actually meant something..

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Still, I bet you all played to your hearts content as a kid despite games getting through the net that were completely faulty/broken.

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