Poll: What if Apple made a video game console.

[Rankao]

They'd make a gaming console and it'll become a international cult sensation like everything they make.
It would bring on the end of gaming in about half an hour, and the end of the world in about oh, 31 minutes.

I love how the world ends before gaming ends.

I haven't had a Blue screen of death in 4 years. Apple will never dominate because they don't know how to allow everyone to kinda just contribute. They dictate every damn thing that can be used on their system like the own the damn users or something.

 

[Logan Westbrook]

You stole the words from my mouth. Apple is incapable of making a good product.

And for some reason, the apple fans are apeshit fanatical about these products. That's the part I never could get.

Imagine a woman who goes out and buys a big rubber dick. And lets say this big rubber dick turns out to be made of inferior quality materials, doesn't do half of what the other rubber dicks in the store could do, but costs five times as much as the other products. Now imagine this same woman looks past all those obvious flaws and praises this giant rubber dick because she had a choice of what color it came in, from lime green to electric blue. That's Apple. Apple products are the inferior dicks who only sell to people more concerned with style and look than function.

I'm not sure that's fair. Raw power isn't everything, ease of use is important too and Apple is widely regarded as being the winner in that field.

 

[milomalo]

i also use mac's for work and its just what i need here i get to play the games i want
Diablo2
fallout2
stracraft
spore
(i do own a ps3, there play console games)
and do my work and my homework... my macbook barely weight 3 pounds also i work whit the CS3 perfectly, can play dvd burn dvd and works perfectly whit my ps3 in red

 

[Simski]

I'd probably be like an xbox, only more directed at the artist community and less game compatibility.

 

[DGenius]

Apple has yet to make anyting good with any type of appeal other than "Indie cred". Apple can not and will not make anyting good.

I second that opinion.

 

[Mr_Powers]

I would have clicked on Fuck No, but that wasn't an option.

 

[EzraPound]

An apple console should have:

- A DC-style keyboard
- Internet browsing
- support for iTunes/iTunes store
- an XBLA-like 'iGames' that would allow you to download tons of old titles (X-COM, Deus Ex, Thief II, NiGHTS, etc)
- the ability for anyone to develop games for the console and sell/distribute them
- tacit support for roms/emulators to trump VC
- the ability to read certain types of files off flash devices (MP3s, etc) or download (so you could download, say, a film and watch it)
- cross-compatibility with older, disc-based consoles (this was ruled as legal during the bleemcast! v. Sony trial; the logic being the games you can play on a console should be contingent on the hardware, not abstract copyright laws that run against the principle of free trade)
- a word processor/MS office equivalent w/ an optional printer periphery
- a built-in virus scan
- built-in design programs
- iPod compatibility

It could be sort of like the old, pre-NES 'media centre' models except updated for the present-day (the Famicon was shorthand for 'Family Computer' in Japan). Plus, there's still lots of Japanese games that never make it overseas Mac could buy the rights to release, not to mention prolific but unknown PC developers.

 

[Shirahime]

I'd imagine that an Apple console would be over-hyped, over-priced and would break in the first week.

 

[Crazybuddha56]

Apple would create a console that third party developers would hate to work on because Apple would make it hard to put it on their console(like Nintendo). What would happen is all the half-way decent stuff would be made by Apple and everything else would be shovelware, but it would sell like mad and people would love it to no end and outsell all the other consoles, even though it would only have one or two decent games(like Nintendo).

 

[irrelevantnugget]

Apple has yet to make anyting good with any type of appeal other than "Indie cred". Apple can not and will not make anyting good.

It's not indie cred anymore, once you've seen more people in a university lecture room with a mac, than a normal pc.

Expressing individuality, my ass. <3 sluggish laptops.

 

[Random Argument Man]

Sheesh, gaming PCer's. I have a macbook and damn proud of it. I doubt they will make it. Steves Jobs wasn't interested. Mac is more of a working computer.

Apple has yet to make anyting good with any type of appeal other than "Indie cred". Apple can not and will not make anyting good.

You stole the words from my mouth. Apple is incapable of making a good product.

I'd support my statements, If I were you.

 

[stompy]

They did. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai_Pippin]

Damn, beat me to it.

So, yeh, not the best idea for Apple to enter the gaming market.

 

[SteinFaust]

it would be stupid, and just another Apple attempt at gold-farming. i'd sooner spend my money on heroin-and-turpentine smoothies.

 

[T3chn0s1s]

I... What?

As... and having...


No, Okay.

I don't program games, so I can't really judge the comments about how complicated programming one is for a mac or anything, but programming for mac versus the PC is like comparing apples and finding the circumference of Dolly Parton's left breast using only your right hand for measurement, and an abacus for calculation. Sure you could do it, and you might get some kind of sick thrill out of being able to, but in the end I'm going to take the apple because she's getting old and that's way too much fuss for something I could go back to basic programming to accomplish.

The comments about apple being all about style versus functionality... No, honestly, they really do try to couple them. They may not always succeed but seriously kids, you sound like those little children on the schoolyard who just found out they could measure their cocks to see whose is bigger.

"The PC beats the mac because it has more games."

"Microsoft products beat apple products because they have more products that do more stuff."

"Apple sucks because I can't afford a piece of technology I claim is useless and I don't want in the first place, bwaaaah"

I can barely afford BREAD at the moment, and I still recognize that apple does what it does... Stop bawing about it for these simplistic reasons. People who have actually posed reasonable arguments, such as the simplicity of the system actually making it more complex are welcome to stay, but the rest... Nyah! Mine's bigger!

[/rant]

Okay, now for canon:

Isn't that what a Macintosh computer IS? A console with a small library that happens to have a very intuitive dashboard interface? Some might note the similarities to the Xbox 360. I seriously can't look at it as a computer anymore than I can say the Xbox 360 is a computer...

But wait, I might hear you say. T3chn0s1s, have you not been arguing that consoles ARE computers for quite a while? Why yes, witty observer! I have. That's my point.

Apple does make consoles.

So does Dell.

They're call computers.

Deal.

 

[DannyDamage]

This is almost as stupid of an idea of apple making a mobile phone, oh wait.

Guess they'll have to get their dirty fingers in this market at some point or another, offering pretentious pricks everywhere an "artsy" or "industry" alternative to something they already have, 2 or 3 times over. *sigh*

 

[Lazzi]

I they make the iPLAY (or what ever they will call it)It will have the bst responcivness of any syetem, it will be super ergonomic it will automaticly link upo to your ipod and us it as an external memory card.

Oh and it will cost you a twix bar and your first born child.

 

[Lazzi]

exactly

Its just a pointless but none the less creative option

and if any thing you coudl watch movies your have unlocked on it

 

[Albert Wesker]

No. There's a reason no one makes games solely for Macs.