With market capitalisation of over half a trillion of dollars, 410 million iOS devices sold to date, Apple isn’t a company anyone wants to go up against especially if the former decided to bring a rival product.
That’s why Sony, Nintendo and of course, Microsoft might be interested with Apple’s recently published patent.
It was filed in March this year and was only published today as GameRevolution has discovered the patent which lists many inputs and interactions between Apple TVs, iPhones, and iPods, including the mysterious and probably the next big thing from Apple, the FIG. 6, which “is a schematic of a video game controller for the standalone media player of FIG. 4 or a video game system”.
FIG. 4 is an Apple TV, which could easily rival the next PlayStation or Xbox with an upgrade, and technically already can play iOS games over airplay. Currently, playing on the iOS devices doesn’t go well with core gamers as they don’t take the platform too seriously due to the lack of buttons that often limits gameplay.
The controller is also pictured to be able to connect to an iPhone or iPod Touch and presumably will be able to connect to an iPad if it ever becomes “a thing”. Connection is shown to be wireless, using Radio-frequency identification (RFID) and NFC tags, rather than the cable shown.
What do you think? Will this device be able to compete with PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U and possibly PS4 and Xbox 720?
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No. Phones should be phones or pads or whatever. Gaming consoles are for top notch games that don’t suck. Games that apple has have all failed to entertain me in the least. They have games that aren’t near the magnitude of super mario or pokemon, the two top selling game franchises ever. So no, Nintendo started it and by God they’ll be the ones to finish games, they have the power to finish what they’ve started. WII U might not be as cool while still innovative. But get this, the catch isn’t the hardware but the software that speaks of its console. Super Mario for example: on an truely obsolete console but still the 2nd best selling game in the world. So in short no, people mostly buy pads for phones, texting. and business because the games are cheap, uncreative and short lived.
Yeah What he said!!
no pc is for the top notch core gaming experience, console is for people who don’t know any better and assume its cheaper based on initial price point, and phones are for calling people and playing tetris or angry birds
Consoles are for people who realize games don’t need state of the art tech to have great gameplay. If you only game on a PC because they’re more powerful, you’re missing some seriously good titles.
Pathetic. Maybe I’m old fashioned but phones are for communicating. Sorry Apple, I wouldn’t play any phone game (minus the occasional casual games like Bejeweled) no matter the graphics when I can play real games on my TV.
Ugh. Put “Iphone 5,” “xbox 720,” and “PS4″ in the title and that’ll get me some views!!!! My article is a complete pile of crap, but the VIEWS, THE GLORIOUS VIEWS!!!!
It depends… can apple shift to a streaming based gaming model with a subscription based pricing model. iCloud Gaming if you will. Imagine your phone being able to stream HD quality gaming via your wireless N router directly to your HD TV (through apple TV or an iTV) With the potential of cloud gaming out there, the reality is any device which can connect to the net with a high enough bandwith and an ability to display on a screen has the potential to be a gaming system with the right software and marketing… Two things apple does very well.
hi there thats a lie iphone only have quad core the xbox 720 comming with 16 core cpu thats 12 more cores then iphone unless ihone 5 comes with 64 core cpu
are you fucking insane the next xbox will come with most likely an 8 core OR MAYBE a 12 core cpu. also who the fuck said cpus matter the most for gaming??? it mostly depends on the gpu!!!!
Nobody mentioned the fact that Apple just pulled yet another huge dick move by patenting Sony’s dualshock controller?
Not a dick move if Sony gets a cut of the profit which they will. Apple is not dumb enough to get in a patent war with Sony over something like this when it clearly looks like a PS controller. Also if this is for iphone and ipads thank Sony so fucking much for wasting money on the Vita. Lack of FPS games so far (i say FPS because the hook for the PS Vita was the dual analog sticks) Resistance BS is pure BS from the retarded gunshots to the lack of updates by NHilistic for bugs galore and no DLC for new online maps. I wish Unit 13 had online play along with co-op but NO THAT WOULD MAKE TO MUCH SENSE!!!! If im paying as high as $50 for a game it better have online play with updates and DLC. Uncharted no online play. Upcoming Call of Duty for PS Vita looks like PSP quality, count on gun fire sounding like shit cause i think NHilistic is developing this game also YIKES, if at 1st you don’t succeed fuck shit up again? I don’t mean to sound like a dick but if you are rich, middle class or lower class we are getting raped off the prices and getting nothing back for it. Sure games on the iphone like Modern Combat 3 and Nova 3 aren’t consider hardcore games because they are played on a phone but they are fun and very well made games and usually put out DLC like new maps and updates maybe not fast enough but whole lot better than the support of Resistance BS. Sony has previous history with Gameloft as they released Modern Combat Domination so why not MC3 and NOVA 3 on the VIta? Also for Christ sakes i dont want to play PS1 games on my Vita…sorry i don’t. PS2 games yes that’s cool but stop taking backwards steps that could of gone on the previous PSP model. PS1 games probably could of run on the PSP but PS Vita? Makes me feel like that’s a smoke screen to keep us quite before we start complaining about the $250-300 we have spent. FINE THEM AND COMPANIES FOR NOT PRODUCING QUALITY PRODUCTS AND GIVING US OUR MONEYS WORTH. At least if they are fined it will maybe light a fire under their asses to deliver good products because if not there just wasting money and ours and the next thing you know companies are gonna be asking for BAILOUT MONEY or something else that’s probably gonna cost us money. JEBUS JUST DO YOUR JOB RIGHT, that’s all i ask. Make us feel good for spending the money we spend on your products…..that’s it im out!