Another Wii-Like Controller Patent For Distinguishing Infrared Light Sources

[MacGohil]

I heard the Apple TV was par with a Mac Mini as far as processor and stuff. So... I imagine it'd be about Wii quality. Which isn't bad at all. (It's not great but... consider the price of the systems in question... to make the Apple TV capable of rivaling the 360 I think they'd have to double the price... if Apple were to make a gaming system I'd rather it was separate from the Apple TV... with the streaming media available on it too of course.)

Apple has great affinity with integrated devices... kinda one for all devices.
It would be nuts to have an Apple-TV and another Apple-Gaming box stacked on top of each other. Just trying to visualise these two devices stacked together doesnt really conveys Apple's minimalistic ideas. If apple ever enter the gaming market it would be with a combo device which will be a single device. In my opinion it will be able to stream videos to another remote screen in the bedroom while the GROWNUP KIDS are busy playing games on the main Plamsa screen in the living room.

I would cost much less to bump the specs of Apple-TV to accomodate the gaming features and make it do both (gaming and media streaming) then having two lines of similar looking products and increasing the complexity for the end-user having to deal with two devices.... that doesnt really sounds appleish enough for me.

apple I do not think would get into the gaming industry. you would need a lot of third party support for games along with some killer first party games and apple really doesn't have a huge gaming department.

the market is already flooded with video game systems and the "next gen" systems are to be released in the 2010 time frame. when would apple launch the product? who would make games for it? we'd need more than EA to push systems out the door.

Apple is already supporting gaming technologies while they are supporting the gaming apps for the IPhone platform.... So they will already have the know-how for gaming in another 6-months time.... All they need to do is expand the gaming technology from IPhone to the Apple-TV and bump the Apple-TV hardware specs up a notch.... I can see it iGame

 

[Sijmen]

An App-store and games for the AppleTV would be awesome, given they'll find another way of controlling the game, like this patent.

 

[ArtOfWarfare]

They wouldn't even need to rename the TV if they were to add in games.

They just need to release the TV SDK now for us to get games on it. I don't imagine it would be any where near as successful as the iPhone SDK though since it doesn't have any revolutionary controls and it's not much of a hot product.

 

[diamond.g]

They wouldn't even need to rename the TV if they were to add in games.

They just need to release the TV SDK now for us to get games on it. I don't imagine it would be any where near as successful as the iPhone SDK though since it doesn't have any revolutionary controls and it's not much of a hot product.

I am actually curious to know how Apple would handle piracy. I know the PS3 and the 360 don't allow you to see the drive structure (normally). They also have hypervisors (in hopes) to prevent unsigned code from running. Do we know if Apple TV has all (or any) of that?