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Rumor: Apple-related gaming announcement on Friday?
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TheSlySoul
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Pretty much confirms a new Apple TV that plays iOS games.
Nothing to see here, just Apple catching up with everyone else as usual.
Ingueferroque
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Apple would not be making any sort of press statement about that.
Come the fuck on, can we try? Everyone becomes a fucking troll in Apple threads. So much salt.
Nothing from Apple itself. Likely something third party.
Edit: Just saw the favorited tweet. Unless invites go out today or tomorrow, I don't see this being an Apple event. And I don't think Apple would silently announce a new Apple Tv or Watch pre-orders. I could definitely see invites going out on Friday though. Then again, Tim Cook may be pulling a surprise. Who knows?
Edit: Just saw the favorited tweet. Unless invites go out today or tomorrow, I don't see this being an Apple event. And I don't think Apple would silently announce a new Apple Tv or Watch pre-orders. I could definitely see invites going out on Friday though. Then again, Tim Cook may be pulling a surprise. Who knows?
Iacobellis
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Yes. Look up bunny hole on Urban Dictionary.
I'd like that.
badcrumble
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Apple doesn't wait until this late in the game to schedule hardware announcements. The press usually knows about Apple events at least a week in advance.
Apple's Q4 earnings/results come in tomorrow, so it's possible that on Friday they'll announce that an event is coming up sometime in the next two weeks. That's about the most that's possible.
deltatheta
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As if I don't spend enough buying Nintendo stuff now.
Buddha Beam
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Apple isn't announcing a huge, long awaited revision like this to the Apple TV on a friggin' Friday, kids. Come on.
BeatResetsTheWorld
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Over Yamauchi's reanimated dead corpse
Actually, Pippin's successor was in development in the mid-late 1990s. Never saw light of day though.
SEPTEMBER 30, 1996 / VOLUME 10 NUMBER 37
Options will make Pippin 2 a home, network computer
By David Morgenstern (david_morgenstern@macweek.com)
As its Pippin partner is preparing to enter the domestic market, Apple is firming up plans for its next-generation design. The forthcoming revision will give developers greater flexibility as well as compliance with the proposed Network Computer Reference profile.
Sources said Apple is demonstrating for third-party licensees and developers the Pippin 2.0, a reference design that is expected to show up in devices in the third quarter of 1997. Some models will cost less than $500.
The first-generation Pippin, the @World Player from Bandai Digital Entertainment Corp. of La Mirada, Calif., is set to ship in the United States in November. The company said the base model will cost $599; a configuration with all the trimmings is not currently priced (see 05.20.96, Page 1).
"Pippin is evolving," a Pippin developer said. "Bandai financed a game machine to compete with Sega and Nintendo but came up with much more -- a Network Computer."
The new system will be a modular hardware and software platform that will let licensees easily pick and choose which features to ship in a product, sources said. While the current Pippin must start up from a CD-ROM, Version 2.0 allows for as much as 8 Mbytes of ROM that can hold system software or third-party application software, such as an Internet browser. The system will also support a diskless booting capability (see 05.27.96, Page 1).
The scheme will also reportedly let vendors create low-cost systems without disc-based storage for vertical markets, such as a networked kiosk or a television set-top box with a cable modem. In addition to the floppy drives and Iomega Corp.'s Zip storage currently available for the Pippin, Version 2.0 will support EPROM storage for files.
Based on a 120-MHz PowerPC 603 processor, the new Pippin will be far speedier than its predecessor; sources said Apple may use a 603e chip, depending on prices next year.
The design will reportedly feature an 80-MHz system bus, much faster than that available with any current Macintosh and most desktop computers. In addition, the hardware will be tweaked to provide a high-bandwidth stream to the video buffer.
According to sources, the Pippin 2.0 will offer a wider range of multimedia optimizations than its predecessor. It will come standard with hardware 2-D and 3-D graphics acceleration, and the reference design includes an MPEG-2 video decompressor. The system will also support AC3 encoded audio.
Developers reportedly will be able to add a Digital Video Disc (DVD) player in designs. The Pippin 2.0 will support most compact disc standards, including digital audio, Photo CD and the multimedia Enhanced CD format.
The Pippin 2.0 will support the 1394 serial standard, or FireWire, but sources said Apple has not decided if the technology will be integrated on the motherboard or as a daughtercard.
Users will also be able to connect and control a variety of 1394 devices, such as digital video cameras, digital VCRs and printers, which are expected to ship in 1997. In addition, the inclusion of FireWire will let the Pippin act as a control console for any attached programmable devices, such as a D-VCR.
"I see potential with FireWire," said analyst Van Baker with Dataquest Inc. of San Jose, Calif., after hearing about the reported new Pippin specifications. He said Apple's poor performance over the past year and the Pippin's game-machine background may present obstacles for its acceptance in enterprise sites. However, "a Network Computer that adds video and multimedia is a different value proposition," Baker said.
In addition to the home entertainment and NC markets, Apple also sees potential sales for the Pippin 2.0 in the education market, sources said.
Apple declined to comment.
https://web.archive.org/web/19970112123853/http://www.macweek.com/mw_1037/news_pippin.html
Caayn
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Well that's one way to make me stop buying Nintendo games.
Yes, but content-rights discussions have stalled that out and anything that major would involve invites sent to press with two weeks notice and a streamed keynote on a Tuesday or Wednesday.
Rodney McKay
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I doubt the update to the Apple TV is going to be that "huge," especially if it's just an Apple TV with faster processor and (if the gaming rumor is true) the ability to play games.
I assumed they would update it at their last big press conference but it didn't happen. At this point I think it will just get a small to medium size announcement, like they do when they just update the internals of their Macs.
badcrumble
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There were rumors about that, but the TV business is pretty unappealing to Apple (and just about any high-endelectronics manufacturer not already embroiled in it). People upgrade their TVs like once every ten years, 3D and 4K have failed to light the world on fire, and the whole thing's just become a big race to the bottom on price with little room for a 'luxury' entrant. Set-top boxes (and to a lesser degree gaming consoles), on the other hand, make plenty more sense if you want actual rapid technological growth because they're both cheap and technologically simple to replace.
However, Apple's avoided upgrading the AppleTV for two years, and in that time the Chromecast has come out and the Roku's made serious strides.
The AppleTV is really likely to remain a set-top box in whatever fashion, but it'd be great for it to get some sort of voice/camera driven interface a la Kinect without vastly increasing the number of wires and pieces of hardware required.
tinfoilhatman
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Bring it on, would be good for Nintendo and about the only way I'd buy another N exclusive.
Love Deterrence
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I WANT THIS GAME IN MY FUCKING Twitter b-hole.
They'd lose me as a customer. You think Nintendo hardware is overpriced now? Apple are the fucking masters of overpricing.
Exactly this. At best it's a 3rd party controller or device that even remotely has to do with gaming and or apple.
badcrumble
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Yep. Or option 3, which is an announcement of an announcement.
TheSlySoul
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Which is why I am curious why the guy is hyping it up. Also I could see it announcing the product and then say that they are going to go more detail later on. Not that unusual.
Not really. Been enjoying a 5 inch phone, a smart watch, and having a streaming stick for awhile now. It is not even Android, Pebble and Roku been doing it better as well.
Nah, you will have to join Windows/Android for that.
Ghost_Messiah
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Acquisitions are usually announced at the close of business at the week's end and come out nowhere with no advance warning. Gaming-related acquisition is the most probable scenario.
Purple Cheeto
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This seems like the most logical outcome in my mind. Amazon has been killing them with Apps on FireTV and the fact that the FireTV and FireTV stick can play games. If you can suddenly play games on your AppleTV with the MiFi controller or whatever then that would be a competition changer.
I doubt its something bigger.
I'm guessing the hype it's because it's Apple and whatever they do will have a bigger impact than what Google and Amazon did. Or maybe they have a strong game initiative.
TheSlySoul
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I will laugh at the idea of an $80 BT controller, but knowing Apple you are right.
Probably the former. They managed to get people hyped about a 6 inch phone and a smart watch.
It's Apple TV then. No doubt in my mind.
blu
Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
I'd buy it at a vintage price.
MrCunningham
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AKA: Filthy iOS casuals
My guess is that it will probably be an Apple TV related thing... .
Maybe Apple TV with a controller.
If there's a controller, I hope they don't overprice it for the love of god.
cyberheater
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I think that is the most you can expect.
Ha. Huh. Hm. Apple's lawyers are quick?
That's Twitter for ya lol.
I'm thinking this new Applt TV will have that A8X in it. they want the specs to be alright for $99. Otherwise, going over that price would be seen as pushing it.
Ghost_Messiah
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Apple TV: Gaming Edition. If Apple are serious about getting into consoles and gaming they'd probably re-brand the Apple TV as a cooler and more focused gamer device with perhaps a separate version of the product to lure in gamers. I think tacking on gaming capability to a device that doesn't exactly scream games would be doomed to fail and have minimal impact.
A new iteration on the Apple TV that clearly markets the device as a gaming capable machine makes the most sense; if Apple are indeed going down this route.
Uh-oh. Someone said something they weren't supposed to. Hype levels increasing.
Ryouji Gunblade
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Halo 2 on mac.
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