Beats

blastdoor said:

The tidbit that 79% of new car buyers in the US have an iPhone is fascinating.

foregoneconclusion said:

Beats said: This argument has valid points but it doesn’t address what we’re suggesting. Gaming on the App Store fell into Apple’s lap. It’s been 15 years of iPhone and apple has ONE game, Texas Hold ‘Em and no one even knows or cares about it. We’re saying Apple should take gaming seriously. Your argument is that 3rd parties are making Apple a ton of money. So what? 

Not sure why you would think it "fell into their lap" when the mobile gaming market didn't really exist prior to the iPhone. Development of the App Store was one contributing factor. Development of the A series chips and their dominant position in terms of graphics performance is another. Development of Metal (available on iOS before being available on Mac) is yet another. 

Fidonet127 said:

Beats said:

Fidonet127 said:

You skipped over my questions. How many iOS games in the top ten or top 100 fully utilize a chip? How do you know that game fully utilized a chip? How many people care a game fully utilized a chip?

you put forth this as a measurement of how good a game is. Now defend it. Why would a chip that has yet to come out to the public be fully utilized?

for me, a game is good if the graphics are good and the game is fun. 

We’re talking about Apple Arcade.

Opinions are irrelevant. The original Pac Man is a classic and good game. Doesn’t mean it will fully utilize M2.

On one hand you call Arcade pathetic and now you can concede that some games are good even though they will not fully utilize a chip? 

What a weird thing to say the opinions are irrelevant. What???! It has been your opinion that Arcade is pathetic based upon the metric that they don’t fully utilize the chip. My opinion is Arcade is a great service. What matters is enough people have the opinion that they like the service and are willing to pay for in, even as part of a bundle. I’m willing to say people will do so. We love it as there is no ads and no in app purchases. Both are banes of games.  

You degrade the service because games won’t fully utilize a chip that most developers don’t have access to yet. You cannot name a single game that fully utilized a chip. Fully utilize all of a chip, cpu, GPU, ml aspects? What about  video encoding and decoding? 

Can’t control performance using a slider? I guess the render distance slider in Minecraft isn’t a thing. All the performance settings in BeamNG drive, or in the Trainz games I like to play. 

Also using your example A series vs M series, which is really desktop vs mobile. You can have universal which does allow desktop vs mobile. 

foregoneconclusion said:

I would say that's a pretty B-I-G deal.

And the fact that it sounds like you could choose non-English announcers is a nice bonus. I don't speak Spanish, but I do like to listen to Spanish speaking announcers from time to time. Just a different flow and enthusiasm to how they do the games. Some of the English announcers (and more specifically former American players) are kind of stiff in comparison.