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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RockRobotRock 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We're really not far from that with this: https://github.com/willfaust/madeira

The ecosystem for running x86 games on snapdragon phones is already fairly robust. Crossover on my apple silicon mac works wonders.

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testfrequency a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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.

	▲	rblatz 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		They keep giving me free Apple Arcade, and I stopped enabling it after the first time. I’ve not found any reason I’d want to use it. I was waiting for this release to upgrade the old Apple TV in my office. This is a pretty niche release, with a premium price. I don’t really care about the price, I waste money on way dumber stuff, but this has nothing that it adds over the previous gen that actually pacts any of the things I want to do. It’s a shame they couldn’t just improve the box, skip the AI stuff no one wants or asked for, drop the fake gaming console aspirations, and drop it at a reasonable price.
	▲	nickpeterson a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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...