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Brightcove CEO: Apple TV Will Be The Ultimate Gaming Console

deactivated-5d6bb9cb2ee20 · 2012-12-17 02:04:29

eremy Allaire, the founder of Brightcove and creator of Flash, has written an intriguing piece on the Apple HDTV, which he believes will be sold in two SKUs: one as an impressive, integrated and upgradeable monitor, the other as a $149 set-top box.What will the new Apple TV be? The new Apple TV will be defined by three key values for consumers: - The best way to consume broadcast TV and any online video. A seamless touch- and TV-based interface makes it simple to consume your existing cable and broadcast content, including video-on-demand (VOD) libraries and DVR features. Via iTunes, you also get instant access to mega-libraries and subscriptions from iTunes, Netflix, Hulu, not to mention YouTube. Naturally, you can also access any AirPlay-enabled videos on the Web, as well as TV apps updated with the new iOS 7 SDK. - The ultimate game console. The new Apple TV will be a direct assault on the game console industry, with a living room platform that should leave Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony running scared. With a single launch, Apple will extend the iOS gaming distribution ecosystem into the living room and invent new categories of gaming through the interaction of iOS devices with Apple TV. - The best way to experience all of your apps. Crucially, the new Apple TV will extend nearly every existing iOS app into being a TV app that brings the power and richness of large display surfaces to consumer computing a task that nearly every industry titan has attempted and failed. The combination of touch and TV will ignite a new era in dual-screen software application design and development in which it will become hard to believe that Internet software was once based solely on PCs, phones and tablets. Personally, I don't see it absolutely dominating the console gaming industry like everyone is so convinced it will. Hell,. smartphones and tablets couldn't kill off the traditional gaming handhelds completely, I highly fail to see what precedent people use when they say the Apple TV will kill off consoles. I still think it will be nice, and that the new competition that it will inevitably provide will shake up the industry and help benefit us customers in the long run.SOURCE (via NeoGAF)

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#51 Heil68

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I'd buy it and play it rather than any Kinect(lol) game.

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#52 CDUB316

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Orbis, Durango, WiiU, PC, Steam Box (which i guess is PC?), and now apple tv......ugh, market over saturation confirmed...the big three and PC were enough guys thanks, don't need your $1500 console/tv apple

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#53 Bruce_Benzing

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They also said the same thing about 3D0. How did that turn out again?

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#54 Bruce_Benzing

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Orbis, Durango, WiiU, PC, Steam Box (which i guess is PC?), and now apple tv......ugh, market over saturation confirmed...the big three and PC were enough guys thanks, don't need your $1500 console/tv apple
CDUB316

Oversaturation of the market was one of the key factors to the industry crash back in the 80's.

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#55 CDUB316

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[QUOTE="CDUB316"]
Orbis, Durango, WiiU, PC, Steam Box (which i guess is PC?), and now apple tv......ugh, market over saturation confirmed...the big three and PC were enough guys thanks, don't need your $1500 console/tv apple
Bruce_Benzing

Oversaturation of the market was one of the key factors to the industry crash back in the 80's.

exactly...and with how this generation has looked with most games going multiplatform and exclusives becoming less and less of a thing...do we really need five consoles and PC that can all play the same game?

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#56 deactivated-5acbb9993d0bd

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Its the same as Apple being voted the most influential devices for teh games industry, because a bunch of basement programming scrubs like myself can make a flash level game and upload it. oh the QUALITY, OH THE AMAZING INNOVATION, someone may or may not buy my app which people offer for free for years! Well done apple :roll:. Apple TV, yet another mediocre device that will be blown out of porportion and when it fails will be covered up.

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#57 LegatoSkyheart

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Ultimate Gaming Console.....

The only true games on iPod right now that I see are Grand Theft Auto 3 and Vice City.

If Apple TV starts getting games like Darksiders 2, Borderlands 2, Arkham City, etc.... then Good News for Mac Users cause that means you might be getting games!

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#58 AmnesiaHaze

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Gaben laughs, because Steam Box is on its way.
Timstuff

the STEAM console is using dualshock3 ?

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#59 santoron

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Personally, I don't see it absolutely dominating the console gaming industry like everyone is so convinced it will. Hell,. smartphones and tablets couldn't kill off the traditional gaming handhelds completely, I highly fail to see what precedent people use when they say the Apple TV will kill off consoles. charizard1605

Well, you don't have to kill off a sector completely to dominate it, and we still don't know exactly what the end result of the mobile platforms versus handhelds will be. It's been less than 4 1/2 years since the AppStore launched, so it's still a young and emerging platform. And historically when new sectors replace old, they don't go across the board, instead eating away the minor products initially (read: Vita) before majorly impacting the old dominant product's sales. That strongly resembles what we've seen so far. I see a market for traditional consoles continuing for the foreseeable future, but a $149 console with the software pricing of the App Store would definitely nab a large share of the non-core market. The value of the current console model would become hard to defend for tens of millions of casual gamers, and their loss changes the entire economic model of the existing platform manufacturers. ... Maybe Sony is teh Dooooomed after all. :shock:

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#60 LegatoSkyheart

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[QUOTE="Timstuff"]
Gaben laughs, because Steam Box is on its way.
AmnesiaHaze

the STEAM console is using dualshock3 ?

just a Cow's dream.

Everyone knows the 360 controller is the default for games now.

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#61 1080pOnly

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Don't know about everyone else but I can't wait for a gaming device with a massive lack of support, huge content restrictions, hideous price-tag and customer support all wrapped up in a shiny white TV box-thing from Apple.

Kinda reminds me of:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=9BnLbv6QYcA

:lol:

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#62 AdrianWerner

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Iphone games are decent as touch experiences. But put them on big tv and without good controls and lmao.
amaneuvering

Why would you imagine the controls wouldn't be exactly the same as they currently are on any touch devices?

Do you actually believe Apple would finally put touch Apps on their Apple TV and then not allow you to play them via the same touch inputs?

That's just silly.

No, actually I expect exactly that, which will meak the controls will be crap, because all touch-only controls are crap compared to regular ones. It's forgivable on the go (same with low quality of the games themselves), but on bit TV? lol...

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#63 AdrianWerner

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Out-of-the-box, Intel Haswell GT3 would have Xbox 360 games @ 1080p.
ronvalencia

And lose all the compatibility with existing iOS library? Doesn't make much sense.

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#64 AmazonTreeBoa

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I have never heard of Brightcove. I can't seem to bring myself to care what the CEO thinks when I have even ever heard of the company. I will say I have no intention of ever buying Apple's over prices crap.

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#65 AmazonTreeBoa