Can iOS 5 challenge Video Game Consoles?

**garyopa** · 10-10-2011 03:34 PM

Not without some killer apps!

With the up-coming release of iOS 5 on Oct. 12th, within the next 48 hours, it comes packed with some new features, some of which are aimed at gamers!

So now we are faced with the fact it looks like Apple is more and more embracing the growing trends of mobile gaming, but will it be enough to challenge todays top selling video gaming consoles by Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft.

With iOS you now have AirPlay, allowing your mobile game to appear on your TV (of course if you also buy an Apple TV set-top box), so more then just mobile gaming, Apple is targetting those at home, playing on their living room TV, even more push towards challenging the current selling big large X360, PS3, Wii consoles!

Big-screen Gaming

A lot of developers see this as a big wave that could make Apple a de facto player in the video game console market, which is currently dominated by the likes of Sony and Microsoft. Both those companies have been slow in developing their next generation of console hardware, and both systems are aging. Meanwhile, the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S are fairly shiny and new, with thousands of games in their respective iTunes App Store stables, and a huge new segment of gamers. Services such as OnLive, which allows users to stream PC games to their computers and TVs over the Internet, are also adding support to the iPad. With the right apps, it seems, your iOS devices may really be able to do everything your Xbox and PlayStation can do.

True competition?

There are a bunch of great iPad games out there, and iPhone games besides, that would be pretty effective as console games. But unfortunately, there aren’t that many that really drive the experience that consoles and PC games currently deliver. It’ll take a concerted effort to make some bigger, more involved iPad games to really give the big players in video games a run for their money.

But it’ll take some really big, awesome titles to really make a splash that traditional gamers notice. Mobile games still tend to be smaller and less robust than major video game releases, and until more games seem like they can stand up to more traditional video games – or at least provide a comparable experience – it’ll be tough for Apple to replace what gamers already know and trust.

But is it enough, well gamers pick up an iPad2, instead over using their current home consoles? -- First is Marketting, Next is some BIG KICK ASS games!

Sometime in future possible, but for sure not in the next 48 hours when iOS5 comes out!

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**TheLivingShadow** · 10-10-2011 07:00 PM

You can't take a platform and develop on it, just to have enhanced hardware a year later... I mean, think about it. they tried it with the dsi and the psp and it utterly failed. the only poeple who will get any level of satisfaction will be the hackers, and the hackers will be the only set of people who actually notice the difference!