nickg331 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 (edited) yea so apparently the VP of PopCap games had a little slip up, informing people that the AppleTV would support games so does that put apple in direct competition with, say, Xbox 360? also, controlling it with the Apple Remote? Edited February 8, 2007 by nickg331 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 yea so apparently the VP of PopCap games had a little slip up, informing people that the AppleTV would support games so does that put apple in direct competition with, say, Xbox 360? also, controlling it with the Apple Remote? Apple has tried this once before with some type of TV console system. I bet it will fail a 2nd time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Direct competition with the Xbox360 ? You're kidding, right ? I have the feeling it will be like games on the iPod, it's just there so Apple can tick off the "Games" on the feature check list. Who knows, guess we wait till Apple gives an official word. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297684 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zealot Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 its not the style of Apple to give something just for free so i think if they are going to enter into the gaming zone, i guess they will make another product for that. c-lot ..and about the ipod games i think that hardware must be capable of mini games at least . About competing with consoles not a chance at least in this generation. gt. saludos ciao. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297696 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg331 Posted February 8, 2007 Author Share Posted February 8, 2007 that was sort of a joke. my question was about the remote/controller... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297715 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin apple pippin, havnt done it since. oh, and they said the same thing about the mac mini http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/03/blog-deb...a-game-console/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 Just in case anyone's lost, the proof can be found here. It was stupid to think that this is a console (the Apple tv I mean...) and I doubt well see any "real" games come out of this. Still, the market for casual games truly is as large as he says it is, and a few Popcap games on the Apple tv certainly wouldn't hurt the bottom line. There's a HUGE market out there for these kinds of games. We're beginning to see it with Nintendo's products, and it will only increase in size. Having any device which could be considered a game device in the eyes of casual gamers is bound to make some money. I'd love to discuss this more! But does anyone have any statistics on the iPod games? Personally, I find them enjoyable and intuitive... but admittedly, most will use an iPod for one reason ONLY: music. -Urby Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297751 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippinapple pippin, havnt done it since. oh, and they said the same thing about the mac mini http://www.joystiq.com/2006/01/03/blog-deb...a-game-console/ Thanks bwhsh8r! That's the Apple game console that I was talking about. I just could not remember the name. gt Just in case anyone's lost, the proof can be found here. It was stupid to think that this is a console (the Apple tv I mean...) and I doubt well see any "real" games come out of this.Still, the market for casual games truly is as large as he says it is, and a few Popcap games on the Apple tv certainly wouldn't hurt the bottom line. There's a HUGE market out there for these kinds of games. We're beginning to see it with Nintendo's products, and it will only increase in size. Having any device which could be considered a game device in the eyes of casual gamers is bound to make some money. I'd love to discuss this more! But does anyone have any statistics on the iPod games? Personally, I find them enjoyable and intuitive... but admittedly, most will use an iPod for one reason ONLY: music. -Urby If someone writes a Mame emulator for AppleTV, that would be cool. gt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297781 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg331 Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 apple came out with a bunch of quickly forgotten half-products in the 90s that are really interesting to look back at now... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest goodtime Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) Casual games is really not a bad idea for AppleTV. It would be like having access to Hotel games on your TV. I could see having Nintendo games like Super Mario Brothers or Donkey Kong. Arcade classics and simple shoot 'em up games. Card games: Sudoku, Chess, Poker, Black Jack. Board games like: Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, Monopoly and You Don't Know Jack. Atari classic games like Pole Position, Asteriods, Tank and Pong. And of course newly created games but keep them simple. As long as the games are not terribly complicated, many of today's non-gamers might buy a few to keep around for parties and stuff. This would be great for the casual gamer like what we had with the Atari 2600 back in 1978. Those games were simple, but very socially entertaining. That reminds me, I used to write shoot 'em up arcade style games for the C-64 using Gary Kitchen's Game Maker. One of my games is still on the internet called "Laser Eagle V2". V1 was never released, it was written in BASIC. V2 made it to the top twenty downloads on QuantumLink. The game can be played using a C-64 emulator. The game was created 21 years ago. It's a home grown classic. eagleg.prg Laser Eagle V2.0. Shoot the ships that are shooting at you to avoid getting shot down. http://www.fragit.net/cbm/c64/games/eagleg.prg http://www.fragit.net/cbm/c64/games/index.html gt Edited February 9, 2007 by goodtime Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_4e Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I haven't looked into this story at all but my first thought that came into mind was Xbox's 360 Marketplace. That has become a very big success and maybe Apple would want to start competing with that. A lot of the games the iPod features are also on Xbox Live Marketplace. Who knows? I have my own doubts about this. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/41608-tv-as-gaming-platform/#findComment-297809 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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