Apple as they are currently have no hope of succeeding in the console marketplace. The thing to understand and what's being ignored is that any console machine NEEDS a steady supply of games software to have any hope of succeeding (at least half a dozen games a month). This steady supply has to represent as many genres as possible, be of mostly solid quality with regular standouts and at least one killer app per year (during the holiday season).
No game hardware company can provide this quantity and quality of software on its own (only N64 era Nintendo came close), and as such it is the third party game developers that are the true kingmakers in the industry.
It is the EAs, the Ubisofts, the Capcoms, the Konamis, the Epics, the Bungies, the Rares, and Square-Enixes of the world that determine how well console hardware sells in comparision to its competitors, not the hardware company itself. Apple would have to learn not only how to play nice with these guys but beg for their support and Apple has never struck me as a company that plays well with partners. I hesitate to think how they would handle being so dependant on outside software developers.
The games are always the most important thing and I don't know where Apple would get that supply.
Launch ads for consoles exit just to keep the marketing buzz up. Everybody who is going to get one on the launch day knows about it already and the people who are going to pick one up over the holidays are going to be convinced by Mainstream media news pieces and reviews not adverts.
As soon as the launch period finishes advertising budgets shift completely to new games and eventually Greatest Hits re-releases with major pushes happening for the killer-app games. The consoles themselves are no longer front and center.
That's Jade Empire, not Jade Kingdom.
Nitpick aside Jade Empire was not a very good game, However KOTOR 2 was horrifically buggy and unfinished game. They're both not worthy of the list.
Firstly Country A doesn't want to waste piles of cash by sending it to B so they have a financial incentive to reduce their carbon output.
Secondly Country B is not only benefiting from having all this unusued carbon space (encouraging them to keep it low), but they can also use Country A's cash to build clean efficient industry.
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Apple as they are currently have no hope of succeeding in the console marketplace. The thing to understand and what's being ignored is that any console machine NEEDS a steady supply of games software to have any hope of succeeding (at least half a dozen games a month). This steady supply has to represent as many genres as possible, be of mostly solid quality with regular standouts and at least one killer app per year (during the holiday season). No game hardware company can provide this quantity and quality of software on its own (only N64 era Nintendo came close), and as such it is the third party game developers that are the true kingmakers in the industry. It is the EAs, the Ubisofts, the Capcoms, the Konamis, the Epics, the Bungies, the Rares, and Square-Enixes of the world that determine how well console hardware sells in comparision to its competitors, not the hardware company itself. Apple would have to learn not only how to play nice with these guys but beg for their support and Apple has never struck me as a company that plays well with partners. I hesitate to think how they would handle being so dependant on outside software developers. The games are always the most important thing and I don't know where Apple would get that supply.
Launch ads for consoles exit just to keep the marketing buzz up. Everybody who is going to get one on the launch day knows about it already and the people who are going to pick one up over the holidays are going to be convinced by Mainstream media news pieces and reviews not adverts. As soon as the launch period finishes advertising budgets shift completely to new games and eventually Greatest Hits re-releases with major pushes happening for the killer-app games. The consoles themselves are no longer front and center.
That's Jade Empire, not Jade Kingdom. Nitpick aside Jade Empire was not a very good game, However KOTOR 2 was horrifically buggy and unfinished game. They're both not worthy of the list.
Firstly Country A doesn't want to waste piles of cash by sending it to B so they have a financial incentive to reduce their carbon output.
Secondly Country B is not only benefiting from having all this unusued carbon space (encouraging them to keep it low), but they can also use Country A's cash to build clean efficient industry.