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    News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Will this mark the beginning of Apple's conquest of the living room?
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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Interesting. Then maybe after this Apple can work on getting more games on the Mac. XD

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Quote Originally Posted by zdn1042 View Post
    Interesting. Then maybe after this Apple can work on getting more games on the Mac. XD
    Games and Mac do not go together in the real gaming world - never have, never will.... :-p

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Games and Mac do not go together in the real gaming world - never have, never will.... :-p
    Keep eating the FUD. My (previous model) iMac is at around 1/2 way up the 3Dmark charts.

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    with an A7 64bit chip with Rogue OpenGL ES 3.0 GPu hopefully...
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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Quote Originally Posted by b0redom View Post
    Keep eating the FUD. My (previous model) iMac is at around 1/2 way up the 3Dmark charts.
    Didn't say anything about hardware and ability.

    Top 5 selling games of 2013 across all platforms - not one available on Mac.

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    [QUOTE=Jenny_Y8S;16416]
    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post

    If by 'gaming world' you mean the predominately male "Gamer" who cares more about their min FPS and their AA & Ambient Occlusion settings than the fun they have, and who knows what 'micro stutter' is then yes.
    Male Gamers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx3ISVBifM0

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Quote Originally Posted by Brewster0101 View Post
    Didn't say anything about hardware and ability.

    Top 5 selling games of 2013 across all platforms - not one available on Mac.
    Well aside from the fact that you CAN play them, using Bootcamp, half of the top ten games last year weren't available for PC.

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    what games are you going to play on an Apple TV????? extremely low end hardware - Angry Birds, tetris, Pacman thats the range of games you will be playing.

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    Re: News - Apple to intro native gaming support on next Apple TV box?

    Quote Originally Posted by genkifd View Post
    what games are you going to play on an Apple TV????? extremely low end hardware - Angry Birds, tetris, Pacman thats the range of games you will be playing.
    You mean there any others?
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