A lot of hardware and not much to do with it.

A different company could turn this hardware into a pretty serious gaming machine or a zero config NAS or something but Apple is not that company.

They couldn't think of any compelling Siri AI use cases to put in the advertising and neither can I.

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testfrequency 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Current rumor is Apple (Beats) may be releasing a controller soon, and with that I’d assume that + price they are testing the waters with bringing AAA to the Apple TV.

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mastax 8 hours ago | parent [-]

If they put Steam on it with your whole existing library we'd be talking.

"We have tomb raider and death stranding 2 for $69.99" is not an interesting proposition except for Apple fanboy dads who hope that will placate their gamer child (it won't).

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testfrequency 8 hours ago | parent [-]

I don’t disagree, the pricing for their titles is painful - especially compared to Steam discounts.

That said, Apple has been attempting for years to make Apple Arcade a hit.

	▲	nickpeterson 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The bizarre thing to me is that it doesn't really feel like they need to do much other than cut deals with developers. This latest atv can't be much slower than a switch 2 (I wouldn't be shocked if it's faster) and could certainly run a giant back catalog of games if publishers were willing to launch them on it. It seems like such an obvious thing that I must be missing something crucial about it. It would really help me stomach a $300 dedicated box for my TV if it could do more than look at pictures and stream netflix. Games are the absolute obvious thing to do, especially since Microsoft and Sony are seemingly struggling. Just ship a controller and cut some deals apple, it isn't that hard...