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Apple to Launch Dedicated Gaming App in iOS 19
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Very good.
Now allow other such store apps from other (more popular) game distributors.
Now allow other such store apps from other (more popular) game distributors.
If it also removes games and the Arcade tab from the AppStore entirely, I’m all for it. I would like to be able to find indie app gems again. And bring back the AppStore wishlist! Having a separate place for games would make it easier for orgs and edu provisioning to disable games too.
Oh joy, more pre-loaded garbage. How much you want to bet that it can't be removed, either?
Can we please get Mega Run: Redford's Adventure (by Get Set Games) back on the app store, along with Monsters Run etc...thx
Also;
Ninjatown: Trees of Doom
Also;
Ninjatown: Trees of Doom
Currently playing Death Stranding on my M3 mba (sometimes, my m1 ipad pro).
I've already played it before and most certainly it's better on PS4/PS5, but still it is quite nice to play a lovely title on Mac.
Gaming still sucks on iOS for the most part and Apple doesn't know how to let others do their own thing. It kills the possibility of what Apple could do for the reason of pure greed. They won't deploy this and it work well. Hasn't happened in over a decade, won't change now. But I would love to be proven wrong.
Definitely not related to the Epic Games Store feud. Definitely not.
Yep, Apple’s definitely not trying to steer people away from using it. Just a coincidence I’m sure.
Yep, Apple’s definitely not trying to steer people away from using it. Just a coincidence I’m sure.
I miss skeuomorphism and Scott Forstall
I'd argue that them now offering (some) games to be playable across the entire ecosystem does offer additional value, but in true Apple fashion they're the only ones offering this because they're the only ones allowed.
I'd like Valve and Microsoft and whoever else to be able to offer me something similar on my iPhone and Mac/PC and have Apple compete on merit.
I’m very curious about what this app will look like. I wish the game I play had a Game Center leaderboard. As it is, it only has an in-game leaderboard that I was on until it became absolutely overrun with android-using cheaters.
Pair it with a Vision Pro. Hard to go back to my PlayStation when Mac to Vision allows virtually no latency and I can play on the BIG screen. PlayStation also streams to Vision, but since it’s not Airplay it has to go through the router which adds latency that the Mac to Vision doesn’t have.
Granted yes, I know not many have a Vision Pro.
Such a good game though!
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be careful people on here don’t like choice and they just want Apple’s way only, I agree with you though !
FINALLY! Between this and the game studio acquisition, it seems like Apple is at least on the path towards taking Gaming more seriously
Flip side is I do like playing a game on my Mac, then getting it also for my iPhone. For instance, I started playing Death Stranding and Sniper Elite 4 on my Mac, streamed to the Vision for the BIG screen. Then when I’m at work, I can do some side missions and “reading emails” in Death Stranding on my iPhone while at work. Nice to be able to start a game on my Mac and pick it up on my phone.
Also really like that I have all my gaming achievements on one platform, built into my main devices. If Apple regularly got console games, I’d sell my PS5 and just exclusively use Apple.
Really hoped to see less default apps… iTunes should be merged into Apple Music as a dedicated page like on macOS. FaceTime and Phone could be merged (I’m really hoping they don’t merge Messages with those two personally, but it’s an option). Freeform, Journal, and Playground should not be pre-installed at all - even if they followed the behavior of iWork, Apple Store, iMovie, GarageBand, or Clips (though maybe Freeform could follow this behavior actually). Or if it’s so important, just end Clips and replace it with Journal since Journal is actually updated (and more people probably use it than they do Clips).
I don’t know. I’m not Apple and they ain’t reading these forums. Just purely my opinion, nothing more nothing less.
I don’t know. I’m not Apple and they ain’t reading these forums. Just purely my opinion, nothing more nothing less.