Apple to dominate console gaming in 2011?Yes, you’ve read it correctly — Apple is poised to takeover console gaming in 2011. At least if Electronic Arts (EA) has anything to say about it. In an interview with CVG, EA vice president Eric Soderlund believes if anyone can do it, Apple can.

There’s no certainty in this world of fast-paced electronics, but word on the street is application support is coming to the Apple TV in 2011. All those great apps we love using on our iPhone and iPad will be playable on the big screen — the most important of which is gaming.

While speaking about the possibility of a new player in the console market, EA vice president Eric Soderlund told CVG, “if it was anyone but Apple, I’d say that’s going to be very hard”. His kind words continued as he said, “look at what they did with the iPhone, right? They are a truly brilliant company so I would give them a relatively good chance to succeed if they tried”.

This isn’t the first time we’ve been warned that Apple could be the next gaming threat. Flashback a couple months and Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime warned that Apple was a bigger threat to Nintendo than Microsoft.

So how exactly would Apple gaming work? Simple, the Apple TV is your console and either the iPhone, iPod or iPad is your controller. Apple would simply need to spin their marketing campaign to highlight the $99 Apple TV and wallah, console gaming.

The current generation of Apple products certainly has the hardware to support HD-quality graphics, an accomplishment even the Wii hasn’t attained. The real question is whether Apple will make the move and enter the market? So does Apple stand a chance at replacing your Xbox 360 or Playstation 3? Let us know what you think!

via CVG

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  • http://www.advancedwebads.com/ Mel Webads

    Definitely, anyone can dominate the console game industry in as much as Apple can. But the question is how Apple will achieve it with fierce competition from xbox, Nintendo and playstation. The industry is very competitive thus getting into it and takeover is not an easy task.

  • Keithrushton10

    It is my understanding (and my experience) that there are a few issues with Apple TV at the moment.
    The biggie is simply that the rental of films has a big problem, it takes forever to download them (sometimes not at all!!).
    Apples response was to rent/download the film onto my Mac, then stream from the Mac to Apple TV – hardly the near instant service direct to Apple TV that is advertised!!!

    The issue appears to be at the Apple end – according to various tech forums…

    Get this service sorted Apple before expanding into games!!!!!

    Although if it was ALL working as advertised it would be great!

  • Alexora

    I would rather see Apple bring PC gaming to the Mac: only a small percentage of top games is available for OSX.

  • http://www.martinturner.org.uk MartinTurner

    To do for gaming what it did for phones, Apple would have to (and would insist on) offer a new dimension of gaming not currently covered by the Wii and the various hi-graphics consoles like PS3 and XBox 360. The Wii took the whole market by surprise, and it's taken Microsoft until now to respond with the Kinect which gives a competitive controller to the higher graphics capabilities of their system.
    There's clearly something to be said for every iPhone and iPod Touch being a controller, meaning that you could have a party with maybe twenty people all playing at once. But how many people would really find that compelling enough to make them switch over?
    On the other hand, if Apple were to bring true 3D gaming, as per their recent patent, to the masses, then we would see another disruptive step change. But this is not going to happen on the TV most people already own.

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