Bumped across this article in my daily stock news searches.
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Microsoft has blown it with the Xbox, and now it's at risk of Apple totally destroying the business, Nat Brown, the founder of the original Xbox project, recently wrote on his blog.
"Apple, if it chooses to do so, will simply kill Playstation, Wii-U and xBox by introducing an open 30%-cut app/game ecosystem for Apple-TV," Brown writes. [/quote]
What do you think? Apple has dabbled in the possibility of entering the video game market before (if you recall, they even thought about acquiring Bungie back in the day) and there is no denying that the Xbox user experience definitely isn't as good as it could be.
What would you think of an Apple console-like device (or as this guy alludes to, a digital distribution network)? We've seen a lot of companies start thinking about moving into gaming (Steambox, Ouya) where it has generally been a duopoly for gamers between Microsoft/Sony.
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Any generic Apple device would have to be vastly underpowered compared to a dedicated gaming system - no point packing a GTX 670 if half the customers only want to use it as a TV. And as we all know, Apple's products have price tags far in excess of what the hardware warrants. This is fine if you're selling a phone, where very little processing power is needed and a slick design is the main selling point. But there's no way it'll attract the hardcore gaming audience.