how cool would this be for gaming experience for app store apps http://www.simplydunn.net/2008/09/24/coming-igame-from-apple.html/
The home button in the center of the four arrows on the right seems like a bad idea. I do like the bit about the use of solar technology.
thats Sooooooo fake. the patents may be real but patents are barely ever used. this is SooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOo fake
Without tactile feedback, getting the buttons positioned right'll be tricky. Finding the buttons with your thumbs should be natural. You shouldn't have to look at anything besides the screen.
lol, FAIL! this is not real, nor would it ever work. discussion closed. if you want an iGaming console, why not just have an Ipod Touch?
Maybe that's the point, they're gonna stop making the iTouch and introduce the iGaming device, which is basically the same thing that has been optimized for gaming. So you'll have an iPhone and iGaming, one focusing on being a cell phone, the other a gaming platform, while both still being able to to do Internet, Music, Videos and other apps. Probably an excuse to stop charging $100 less for the iTouch and get more money for it. Edit: this article is from September though.
Might as well get a PSP, if you're into that. I love having my phone, music, web AND games in one device -- I didn't buy it just for gaming, and never would.
Well first of all, the game showing is Halo 3 if you didn't notice. Second of all it is obviously fake and it is just to show what it might look like. Third of all, Apple, the great company that it is, will think of something more creative than calling it iGame. I also don't think this will be out any time soon. Maybe two or three years.
From a design standpoint, seems like it should be possible to implement a binary switch, similar to the mute switch on the left of the iphone, that allows one to switch the home button b/t standard functionality and game mode functionality. Pressing the home button with the on/off button in either of these states would still do a screen capture.
The control pad would be better built-in than as an add-on. And the Apple engineers are probably better. Why am I saying probably, of course they're better.
Real(ly) cumbersome, unattractive, and unlikely to be embraced by many users, and thus not by many developers.
Know something though? Heard about that Onlive thing at onlive.com that was demoed at GDC? If Apple develops a mini version of that then you should be able to get the graphics, if not the gameplay on such a device. It would still be years away though.
Wrt the home button at least, one already has tactile feedback as the button is dome-shaped. In this context the arrows merely would serve as visual reference. One would have to make mechanical adjustments to accommodate the increased usage and wear of the home button.
