Ubisoft CEO says Apple will be getting into home console gaming with new device!

Wouldnt mind seeing Apple take a shot at it, they have got major brand recognition these days and I HIGHLY doubt it would result in the apocalypse of gaming as some are claiming..

[QUOTE="Delsage"]Bring on the IBox. It's just a box.AdmiralBison

sounds to much like the Xbox.

I-game?

I-play?

I-Wii?

I-u and me?

ha ha ha

No, no iBox is deffinately what it will be called. ;)

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Macs and iPhones are great devices. To each his own, I guess.

siLVURcross

But those are made by Pasen, not Apple. :P

It seems Apple has a thing for rectangles with rounded corners, so I'm guessing it'd look like a giant Apple TV. The controller, I dunno. I can't really imagine Apple doing this. I'm used to them selling stuff that they outdate every year which is a terrible strategy for selling a game system.

Hmm.... I hope not. I also home MS outsells it in the console race something like 9 to 1. It would be very ironic? Expected? I'm not sure...

Ugh, no apple keep your 2 button trackwheel game console to yourself.

apple introducing a gaming apple tv could be awesome. games, music movies all available for download from one store. Just needs to pack some serious power unlike most apple products. I could see ms turning the xbox into a pc that runs windows media centre and make some changes to the media center so it includes games support. Don't be surprised when ms doesn't release another xbox but instead migrates all xbox games over to a windows media centre pc with full xbox controller support and all the features of xbl put into gfwl. Nintendo will stay with the causals but sony will have to do something big to stay in. Consoles are moving away from plug and play and into media centre pcs. imprezawrx500

I like how 2 people in here announced Sony's demise based on a PREDICTION.

Read more carefully next time.

It took M$ 2 gens to become profitable with the 360. Can Apple last that long if it decides to join the fray?

REALLY not interested in seeing Apple enter the console market.

Jeez, I hope not.

So it'll just be a really expensive device that can't do anything. Looking forward to it. Course I'll be getting one just because it'll look nice.siLVURcross

... what, a PS3?

J/k :P

I think everyone here are greatly underestimating the power of the almighty apple army. A force so strong that over priced gadgets and hardware upgrades at a ridiculous pace will not stop them! We will all rue the day when Apple officially takes over the whole world.

Apple is a money machine, if they introduce anything new, especially if you can touch it, squeeze it, or talk to it, IT WILL SELL! period. Remember the casual gamers we have all come to loath? Yes they will lead the gaming industry down the pathway to destruction once again, and possibly to the point of no return. These companies are already trying to copy each other, just wait until apple comes onto the scene and they all try to do what apple does. I see a dark future ahead, very, very dark.

A 4th console? I find having 3 consoles is to much let alone 4.Star650

I hope they do make it in......With more competition the better the industry will become....

i dont understand people sometimes... so in order for Sony to continue in the gaming industry it has to sell 100 million units for every console they make, otherwise they are doomed?????

Come on, do you seriously believe that if apple enters the gaming industry that will make Sony run out of business ??? People got short memory aparently, i didnt see Nintendo nor MS abandon the gaming industry when they got trashed in terms of sales by Sony, (dont forget Nintendo got also trashed in terms of sales back in the N64 days).. So because PS3 is struggling in terms of sales but not in the same bad way N64, Gamecube and Xbox did compared to PS1 & PS2, that should imply Sony has to get out from the console gaming business ??

And dont even compare Sony with SEGA, as much as i had fun on Sega consoles back in the day, it was always being outsold by its main competition since the Master System days, let alone the flops they made with SEGA-CD, NOMAD, 32X etc etc so thats a complete different story..

If Apple plan to enter the gaming industry, good luck to them, more choice for gamers & more competition for manufacturers... Long live all console manufacturers cause of them (& devs)millions of gamers enjoy themselves playing amazing games....

So it'll just be a really expensive device that can't do anything. Looking forward to it. Course I'll be getting one just because it'll look nice.siLVURcross

It will kind of be something like this.

greeaaat. An $800 wii

Everyone talk as if sony is the weakest competitor here just because they made one mistake this generation doasnt make them the weakest and if you look at it the other way Nintendo is the one who will be hurt the most if apple entered this market cuz apple target casuals like Nintendo.

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[QUOTE="Delsage"]Bring on the IBox. It's just a box.Delsage

sounds to much like the Xbox.

I-game?

I-play?

I-Wii?

I-u and me?

ha ha ha

No, no iBox is deffinately what it will be called. ;)

lol. however the idea with no wire at all would be something else.

maybe with the blu tooth or upgrade in wireless technology where you can stream pictures to a "reciever" on the T.V. would be awesome at accepatable performances.

coupled with a motion camera along the lines of what Microsoft are doing could be some simple alternative to playing with out a controller.

Imagine games in the future where you no longer play with a controller and move and use hand gestures for weapons like the movie "Minority report"

http://youtub.com/watch?v=NwVBzx0lmnq

The camera would scan your hands- you make the gun gesture with you hands and the camera is so acurate it watches your trigger finger and arm movement for firing and aiming.

a quick keyboard gesture and you can use this to interface with virtual keyboards or G.U.I's like in Minority report.

That would be killer of an idea along with the advent of 3d images and we would have a next level of interaction and revolution since motion control and "3 dimensional" graphics.

Everyone talk as if sony is the weakest competitor here just because they made one mistake this generation doasnt make them the weakest and if you look at it the other way Nintendo is the one who will be hurt the most if apple entered this market cuz apple target casuals like Nintendo.

Kashiwaba

I reckon Apple and Nintendo can co-incide well together.

Nintendo always has a huge following and fans when it comes to Nintendo games.

It could be possible that the next Nintendo console could be the main gaming achine and the Apple as a support entertainment device or maybe the other way round when it comes to the casual market.

Though both companies have a huge software histroy and library.

Apple can still build on the success of Iphones, Ipod touch and Imacs to spill over into the gaming industry somehow.

Nintendo will always be popular because of their high quality first party games.

Microsoft have a very strong vision in what hey wanted to do from the get go with online markets, digital distribution and dlc as well as try to be a happy middle for the hardcore and casual market. Many Skus, optional perripherals and multiplat games performing quite well in sales and on the machine.

It's win - win!

Sony will be out of business by next gen at this rate. They should go third party they make some nice games.TripHawkins