Comments on: Patent bares rumor: Apple TV gearing up for games?

The Xbox and the PS3 now have Apple TV-like abilities. Is Apple planning to pull a switch-a-roo?

[sodapop2k9]

This is kind of silly unless it supports iPhone games. The iTV doesnt have the processing power to be a gaming machine.

[andrewrm]

I'm in general very happy with my AppleTV. For me it's a media extender. I can stream DVD quality video from my Mac. I wan't games I'll stick with my Wii or Mac.

[ViEtNiNjA007]

How is Apple going to get casual gamers. Nintendo 's Wii has those gamers in a pasture, milking money. All the hardcore gamers are on the PS3 and Xbox 360. What is the point of Apple TV games. EA, Activision, and the other third party developers are doing good under this generation of games, and would see no point in developing any efficient time of Apple TV. Anyway if there is one thing Apple was never good at, it is the realm of video gaming (Click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Pippin)

[luckycharm609]

What i'm looking for is a total home media center and nothing on the market currently does it right. I have 2 x PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, ATV, DVR. PS3 and Xbox could do so much more but both ms and sony are to slow to give away functionality unless they find a good way to stick you. ATV should at very least have had safari apple was silly not to include such an easy function of the ATV. My plan is to setup a mac mini to fill all my needs with air mouse on the iphone/itouch to control it. whole system will give me a very large brain at the center of my media network all for only 50% more than my ATV cost me.

[justinbltn]

It seems like Apple could easily make the MacBook Air external drive able to connect to the Apple TV using the USB port and cable on both products. A simple firmware update could easily work with all of our DVDs and fee up so much space on the entertainment center.

[forever4now]

OpenGL seems to be key for game developers. If they develop with OpenGL, their games should run virtually everywhere (consoles, smartphones, Windows/Mac/Linux PCs, TVs (assuming this function gets integrated),...).

I'm not much of a gamer, but I'm starting to wish I was a game developer.

[iconoclast04]

Unless you use Mac computers, why would you buy this? An Xbox 360 or a PS3 can stream content to your TV from your PC, plus they have disc drives, hard drives, and are full-fledged gaming devices. Tell me again why I'd buy an Apple TV, even if it had games...

[boy444]

Apple calls this a hobby, because it can't sell the apple tv. I tell you why the apple tv won't sell. No one fells the need to have a huge ipod they can't take with them. Unless apple adds an touch screen, or cable onto it, no one wil buy it.

[ceigered]

If Apple were to release a new Apple TV, with improved hardware, a dropped price, a way to take physical media and some form of control (I like the iPhone controller ideas :P) it could work as a gaming console considering modern day gaming consoles don't need the say hardware as a computer. iPhone games probably wouldn't work with it due to the difference in interface (unless you used the iPhone controller idea), but give it its own app store and maybe let it play existing mac games, and Apple's hobby could become a bit funner for them and many developers. However, as some have stated, the price would have to be low. If the ATV came out at its existing price with the features I just mentioned, I'd get a Wii (Wii is the cheapest Console in Australia at ~$400AUD), knowing that it too has the Wiiware store. And because you can't get Twilight Princess or Wind Waker on a mac.