As for the controller thing, I like that you can practically use any controller with Apple TV, and Apple has not locked one into a controller that would probably be costly, and you may not like anyway. If the controller happens to support IOS specifically, then you can control the entire Apple TV experience except for volume and scrubbing timelines for videos and music. Also, Apple has thought it through enough to enable button re-mapping. If they get around to supporting back paddles and remapping them, that would be perfect.
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Game Developers Describe 'Smell of Death' Around Apple Arcade
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I thought Apple might put more interest in gaming with the revamped Apple TV4 in 2015 (the current range of Apple TV). But Apple still hasn't and shows no interest. Sure some people like the sanitised politically-'correct' kiddy games. Tim Cook has no interest in this except to extract as money from it as possible. Tim Cook is solely a money person. He is a one trick pony.
Personally, I'm not interested in Game Pass either. I want to own my games, preferably on physical media too. I want to be able to play my purchased games without internet (unless the gameplay itself specifically requires it) or subscription.
It's not really a misstep at this point. It's his plan all along.
Which is great and I hope that's always an option for you. Realistically, though, that's counter to the direction the industry is going, particularly the physical media part—there's still plenty of games released digital as one-time purchases, and even Game Pass allows you to purchase-to-own at a discount if you'd prefer, but physical media is not necessarily realistic in the era of multi-gigabyte games. Often if a game even offers a retail box, the disc inside contains just a stub application to download the actual game.
Once again, however, Nintendo provides with its ubiquitous cartridge system. I suspect whatever follows the Switch, now predicted for sometime in 2025, will still support physical media because it's so engrained in their ecosystem.
Do you think it's impossible for Steam and Nintendo Switch Online to have 11%? Because that number comes from the same company saying Apple Arcade has 10%.
See my earlier response to you. The article cited by MacRumors doesn't specify how many developers they spoke to and only uses the word "multiple".
It took apple support 12 weeks (!!!) to fix my developer certificate. They simply don’t care about developers. At all. Sincerely.
I like the _idea_ of Apple Arcade. Problem with Arcade is simply that the quality of games is so low that the service is not worth using. I have access to the service as a part of Apple One, but almost never use it.
Almost feels like Apple exec team is not playing games themselves.
I guess the fix could be to have real AAA titles in Arcade. To get there, Apple might need to hire some execs from Steam, Microsoft, or Sony to run Arcade and give them a multi-billion dollar spend budget to lure in publishers.
Almost feels like Apple exec team is not playing games themselves.
I guess the fix could be to have real AAA titles in Arcade. To get there, Apple might need to hire some execs from Steam, Microsoft, or Sony to run Arcade and give them a multi-billion dollar spend budget to lure in publishers.
I doubt it too. 11% of US consumers is a lot... around 29 million people. According to Nintendo, Nintendo Online has 38 million members worldwide, so that would mean 76% are based in the US? That doesn't make sense, although it could depend on how MIDiA Research defines a "US consumer".
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Actually a really good take. I play maybe 15 minutes of iPhone games once a year and the last time I did I tried a game from Apple Arcade. It was fun and focused on good gameplay. No banner ads, no dark design patterns, just a nice experience to pass the time. Based that experience and the occasional browsing of the Arcade homepage, I'm confident in the quality of games on there.
With that being said if I had the option to remove it from Apple One to reduce my bill I would remove it.
Apple Arcade is just for kids, tried it, realize that, moved on.
I tried Nintendo and the Nintendo switch and I can see its appeal, but it just wasn’t for me.
Then I try to steam deck. And I really enjoyed it. It’s now my go to platform for gaming.
I tried Nintendo and the Nintendo switch and I can see its appeal, but it just wasn’t for me.
Then I try to steam deck. And I really enjoyed it. It’s now my go to platform for gaming.
Will never happen when Apple describes itself as a "walled" garden. You can't attract any game community with type of support. Cause who would want to see their work die on the vine with kind of philosophy.
Tim Cook has zero inspired vision and could never create a well-developed gaming platform or system.
The dude thinks a rock is exciting but still talks slower than Mitch McConnell.
The dude thinks a rock is exciting but still talks slower than Mitch McConnell.
Probably because only Apple’s very latest hardware supports ray-tracing: the iPhone 15 Pros, M3 computers & soon iPad Pros. I expect Apple’s interest in high end gaming will increase in time. Despite the doom & outrage in the forum, Apple makes HUGE sums of money from gaming. It’s just low end kid games for now, because that’s what runs on the current Apple devices most people own.
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Apple is going to destroy their own service. That’s what happens when companies are greedy. I’m going to get a little philosophical. Greedy companies are destroying America. As long as companies attitude is how much can we suck from our consumers the economy in America is going to continue to go down hill. Companies need to provide a product or service and decide what is a fair cost and not charge anything more than that.
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I don’t think the problem is so much the cost but it’s the value. if the games offered on Apple Arcade Were better than the current price point would be As much of an issue.
I was under the impression most of the games that utilized Ray tracing could disable ray tracing and run at the lower graphics Fidelity. A bigger issue is the current Mac game community is small and game publishers Don’t see the benefit of porting their games to Macs, so the games just aren’t there. And having a few machines that include ray tracing isn’t going to change that.