“Think about it,” Evans writes. “Apple’s already selling millions of games each month via the App Store, where games are the biggest-selling category.”
Evans writes, “In time it’s likely we’ll see some impact from this as some games migrate from iOS to the Mac via Apple’s Mac App Store. Apple will become a pre-eminent gaming company.”
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A single core integrated graphics iPad cannot match the quality of a 9 core Cell processor in 3D graphics and game quality
Sorry to rain on your PS3 fainboi parade but you should check your facts.
PS3 is has a Cell processor at it’s heart, Sony’s PR and marketing machine might say it’s a super computer on a chip but in reality it has: 1 CPU core and 6 SPE
1 CPU core is a PowerPC chip that can run 2 threads, when you could run Linux it was at same speed as an old low/mid-range G4 Mac.
6 SPE out of 8 in design, 1 not used to increase production yields and 1 used by OS, only 6 for games. SPE are vector processors and cannot run general purpose computer code.
As for graphics, it’s GPU is out the ark and was an off-the-shelf part from Nvidia.
There are hardly any PS3 games that even render at 720p, most are much lower res and scaled up moreover not even at 30fps — compare this to Epic’s Citadel demo on iPad that renders 1024×768 at 60fps.
It was a matter of time for this to happen!!
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My biggest fear is that when this happens, the Android platform will get the vast majority of games because of their increasing market share. It looks to me like Windows vs Mac again.
In time I guess. In the near future not for high end games. Osx is really hurting a a gaming platform still. Bad drivers and he’ll osx doesn’t even run open gl above what version 2.5?
To the comment about normal people who don’t play wow well 12 million would say otherwise. The mmo market isn’t anything to laugh at. It’s to bad more companies won’t bring native clients to osx like blizzard.
The console market and pc market will not feel the heat from an iPad anytime soon IMO. First apple needs a real controller of some sort. Touch screen controls are lacking in every way when you play a serious game that will hold your attention for a long time.
This article is a straw man and you’re all arguing something that can’t be won.
The target audience of this article is not the gaming culture, it’s written for senior IT leaders in enterprise, many of whom already think Apple makes toys and now Apple’s devices are becoming trojan horses to smuggle time-wasting games into the company? We’ll soon see about that!
Yeah, but can the iPad play games in 3D without dorky glasses?
“Apple is taking over the games market.” Really? From whom? By my read there are a couple of different “games markets” controlled by different groups. And, no surprise, Apple isn’t in control anywhere. Not saying the Mac isn’t good enough to play. The PCs that dominate the big games are targeted to that use and cost less than a Mac aimed at that market would. Though the Mac would still be able to do so many things better than the superior game system would. The consoles that dominate their own market are likewise targeted and, unlike the iOS devices, don’t do much else with any confidence.
Leaving “casual games”, mostly. Solitaire Till Dawn, for example. Or Sudoku. Even WoW is leaving many Macs behind – my wife’s dual-core iMac, with a low-end graphics card, can’t really keep up. My quad-core Mac Pro is still sufficient, but there’s an upgrade coming next month that may change that.
Let’s face it … the Mac – including the iOS family – can play most of the games out there. But, others can play more or provide a better experience in the process. If you are a hard core Gamer, you likely will not be satisfied with what a Mac has to offer. If you just like to spend a few hours a day, at work (or school) or after, whiling away the time, any of them will do – and the one that’s already on your desk is a great option.
I love my iPad, but no way can it replace my console and big screen TV.
Just like the iPad is tapping into an entirely new computing market, Apple games, combined with Airplay, will tap into an entirely new gaming market. Console geeks need not apply. Wii already proved that you don’t have to have the best graphics or most powerful processors to win in the gaming segment.
An iPod touch or iPhone could easily be used as a Wii-style controller, for example.
And once again, Apple’s cheap, easy, yet powerful SDK, and iTunes delivery system will entice another 100K developers into the fray both big and small. MS, Sony and Ninentendo have totally dropped the ball by not streamlining their entire convoluted, expensive gaming development/delivery/payment process. It will be their undoing.
I’m not saying that X-box or PSP will go away, just like Office and Win7 will not go away. But all the new growth will be in Apple’s walled garden of games. And BTW, Apple’s walled garden looks like a luxury resort compared to the penitentiary of the competition’s limitations, rules and expenses.
1 CPU core is a PowerPC chip that can run 2 threads, when you could run Linux it was at same speed as an old low/mid-range G4 Mac.
Right, the Cell is a dedicated game processor and Linux isn’t allowed access the GPU.
Can a iPad’s A4 render 720p ray tracing at 13fps like a Cell can?
No, I rest my case.
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Wow. Who would have thought that is where all the dinosaurs would be? Buttons? Joy sticks? Consoles? Think USB, keyboard, mouse. Just because you love them does not mean they are not going to die.
Perhaps it would help to think less about the redundant technology (technology is always transient) and more about the money (which isn’t). Who makes money making games and how? Ask EA where they are putting their efforts. Ask THQ. Ask the thousands of new young designers.
Also, when John Carmack is showing off RAGE on a previous generation iphone and Unreal is porting their latest SDK to iOS, it is very difficult to argue that iDevices won’t have hardcore, immersive games.
BS. When iPads become as powerful as XBoxes, there will be next gen Xboxes that will blow these new iPads out of the water. Sorry but its true.
I will concede that the Wii proved game consoles don’t need to be the most powerful to be successful and still there is potential via Apple TV and airplay to put iPad games on HDTVs very soon. That could be interesting. Not an Xbox but interesting.
@I CAN… you are completely wrong. LOL