Rumors Persist of New Apple TV With Stronger Gaming Focus, Updated Remote, and Faster Chip Next Year

[aarond12]

With Apple Arcade, Apple has positioned itself in a way to break into the home AND portable game market. All the games on Apple Arcade work on iPad and iPhone already. Many (most?) also work on the Apple TV. This means that home "console" games work on mobile unmodified.

* PS4/5 can't do that -- even the discontinued Sony Vita (which I play almost every day still) couldn't do that.
* XBox can't really do that even with their XBox app.
* Nintendo can kinda do that with the Switch, but NOT the Switch Lite (no video out). No phone app.

If Apple starts taking their hobby a little more seriously, they could make a big dent in the home console market. Add a real remote, optionally bundle it with a game controller (with the ability to use PS4/XBox controllers that is already in place), and voila.

 

[TVreporter]

I saw this on another site - https://appletrack.org/apple-tv-6-m...&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost


For the next Apple TV:

New remote
Game controller in development
Processor faster than A12
64/128GB storage (with higher tiers potentially coming in the future)
More than 3GB RAM
Launch at a TV+ event in the fourth quarter of 2021
Rumored details about ‘Apple Arcade+’:

“Preliminary details reveal that the company is in advanced contacts with major and well-known gaming players in order to offer their games outside of the Xbox, PlayStation and PC consoles” The Verifier says
The expanded service may launch as soon as later this year
And for the reported changes coming in tvOS 15:

Major design refresh; App Store will see upgraded UI
Kids mode with better parental controls
Screen Time
Upgraded broadcast schedule, improved recording management and channel subscription bundles

 

[pistafox]

Really hope they are putting an audio out back in like they used to have. Not being able to separate audio and video really limits the use cases with projectors and amplifiers.

It’d be nice just to have the toslink port back. It’d be nice, but it won’t happen. Apple likely has several business cases (like promoting use of HomePod speakers) and could easily, if not entirely convincingly, argue that (e)ARC and wireless connectivity are sufficient and better. There may be legitimate engineering concerns from both hardware and OS perspectives but they should clearly be secondary to use cases like those you mentioned. With the AppleTV’s capabilities and pricepoint, it should be approached and marketed by Apple as much as a home theater component as a lifestyle accessory/ecosystem “hub.”

 

[Schnegg]

It’d be nice just to have the toslink port back. It’d be nice, but it won’t happen. Apple likely has several business cases (like promoting use of HomePod speakers) and could easily, if not entirely convincingly, argue that (e)ARC and wireless connectivity are sufficient and better. There may be legitimate engineering concerns from both hardware and OS perspectives but they should clearly be secondary to use cases like those you mentioned. With the AppleTV’s capabilities and pricepoint, it should be approached and marketed by Apple as much as a home theater component as a lifestyle accessory/ecosystem “hub.”

Well, at least third party products are now allowed to use airplay. But a toslink out would certainly make the product more flexible.

 

[Madchemic39]

Will new Apple TV come with HDMI 2.1?
What cable do you recommend from Amazon UK?

 

[rneglia]

I saw this on another site - https://appletrack.org/apple-tv-6-m...&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ReviveOldPost

Honestly, Apple can get stuffed over this. "The future of TV is apps," they've been telling us since 2015...

So give us a decent device to run these TV apps, you greedy twits!