The New AppleTV is Here, Now with Games
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@Dashrender said:
Like this prediction wasn't the same one everyone has been saying since forever. lol
I had never heard it at that time. Actually, I've barely heard it since then. Mostly I hear people predict that the platform was abandoned.
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@Dashrender said:
Like this prediction wasn't the same one everyone has been saying since forever. lol
@scottalanmiller said:
I had never heard it at that time. Actually, I've barely heard it since then. Mostly I hear people predict that the platform was abandoned.
This (that is was dead) is what the pundits have been saying until the recent leaks on the new AppleTV.
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OK I'm definitely going off a bit half cocked today - that said.... If this platform was/is to continue it has to keep up or surpass those around it that are offering similar things. The Amazon offering has games on it, etc, so I'm sure anyone who was thinking about the AppleTV fully expected it to have games on it. Perhaps you were one of the first to write it on the web.
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@Dashrender said:
OK I'm definitely going off a bit half cocked today - that said.... If this platform was/is to continue it has to keep up or surpass those around it that are offering similar things. The Amazon offering has games on it, etc, so I'm sure anyone who was thinking about the AppleTV fully expected it to have games on it. Perhaps you were one of the first to write it on the web.
Except that those "other" platforms didn't exist back when I wrote this. Not by years. The Amazon device is like brand new. What devices are you thinking of from pre-2010?
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I'm not aware of any Android device, that connected to a television, being on the market yet in 2010 and definitely none of them were set up for gaming at that point. That was only two to three years ago that they started experimenting with that. Roku and similar devices, rare in 2010, did not have games.
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OK, you're Nostradamus.
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@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
Because someone is wrong on the internet.
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I will be getting one of these before the year is out to replace my 3 year old AppleTV. We use iPhones, iPads, and I have a MacBook. AirPlay works awesome and we use that to throw the SlingBox app up onto the TV for our SlingBox in Japan.
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
Because someone is wrong on the internet.
Yep, I was/am giving it to Scott - he wrote it down long before those other devices where being used as such. But really (admittedly) it's easy to look back now and think, of course that's going to happen - it was already happening to the iPhone/iPod, why would those who only want a medium to low end gaming experience not want this from their AppleTV instead of buying a very expensive XBox or PS(Version #).
So I concede that Scott wrote an article about this back in 2010 before anyone else did. no snark.
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@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
Because someone is wrong on the internet.
Yep, I was/am giving it to Scott - he wrote it down long before those other devices where being used as such. But really (admittedly) it's easy to look back now and think, of course that's going to happen - it was already happening to the iPhone/iPod, why would those who only want a medium to low end gaming experience not want this from their AppleTV instead of buying a very expensive XBox or PS(Version #).
So I concede that Scott wrote an article about this back in 2010 before anyone else did. no snark.
Thanks. It's one of my few predictions I've been waiting on to come true. I felt really confident in it but it just never happened.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
Because someone is wrong on the internet.
Yep, I was/am giving it to Scott - he wrote it down long before those other devices where being used as such. But really (admittedly) it's easy to look back now and think, of course that's going to happen - it was already happening to the iPhone/iPod, why would those who only want a medium to low end gaming experience not want this from their AppleTV instead of buying a very expensive XBox or PS(Version #).
So I concede that Scott wrote an article about this back in 2010 before anyone else did. no snark.
Thanks. It's one of my few predictions I've been waiting on to come true. I felt really confident in it but it just never happened.
Makes you wonder what took so long to come out with a new device? Does this one have access to the iTunes store?
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
Because someone is wrong on the internet.
Yep, I was/am giving it to Scott - he wrote it down long before those other devices where being used as such. But really (admittedly) it's easy to look back now and think, of course that's going to happen - it was already happening to the iPhone/iPod, why would those who only want a medium to low end gaming experience not want this from their AppleTV instead of buying a very expensive XBox or PS(Version #).
So I concede that Scott wrote an article about this back in 2010 before anyone else did. no snark.
Thanks. It's one of my few predictions I've been waiting on to come true. I felt really confident in it but it just never happened.
Makes you wonder what took so long to come out with a new device? Does this one have access to the iTunes store?
I can only assume that it does. My guess is that the delay was in deciding how to make an input device that would work as if it was an iPhone because all of the existing games assume touch screen input.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
OK, you're Nostradamus.
I feel like you are being really snarky. I made a prediction five years out that I'd never heard anyone suggest at all and still to this day have never heard said and you claimed that it was super common and you heard it all the time (I think) and that all these other devices were common and made this obvious but there weren't any devices and who were these people talking about gaming on the AppleTV?
And then you are being snarky when those things can't have been true. Why? Why are you upset that I made this one, trivial prediction?
Because someone is wrong on the internet.
Yep, I was/am giving it to Scott - he wrote it down long before those other devices where being used as such. But really (admittedly) it's easy to look back now and think, of course that's going to happen - it was already happening to the iPhone/iPod, why would those who only want a medium to low end gaming experience not want this from their AppleTV instead of buying a very expensive XBox or PS(Version #).
So I concede that Scott wrote an article about this back in 2010 before anyone else did. no snark.
Thanks. It's one of my few predictions I've been waiting on to come true. I felt really confident in it but it just never happened.
Makes you wonder what took so long to come out with a new device? Does this one have access to the iTunes store?
It has it's own app store. It runs TVOS not iOS. But developers can make universal apps for all devices, iPad, iPhone, AppleTV
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@scottalanmiller said:
I can only assume that it does. My guess is that the delay was in deciding how to make an input device that would work as if it was an iPhone because all of the existing games assume touch screen input.
My guess was the resources were more dedicated to making a full TV until it was decided that it was not feasible a year or so ago (last time I heard news about that).
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@JaredBusch said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I can only assume that it does. My guess is that the delay was in deciding how to make an input device that would work as if it was an iPhone because all of the existing games assume touch screen input.
My guess was the resources were more dedicated to making a full TV until it was decided that it was not feasible a year or so ago (last time I heard news about that).
Interesting, did they kill it about the same time Google killed their TV idea?
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@Dashrender said:
Interesting, did they kill it about the same time Google killed their TV idea?
No idea, but I stopped hearing about it a little over a year ago I think. Memory could be failing me, but certainly not anymore this year.
