Apple Arcade Will Be Available On September 19 For $4.99 (gizmodo.com) 39
Apple's Arcade video game subscription service is launching on September 19 for $4.99 per month for up to six members in your family. "There will be new games released every month, and will have perks like game guides and sneak peeks," reports Gizmodo. "In addition to a new Frogger, Apple also demoed new games Sayonara Wild Hearts and Shinsekai Into the Depths." From the report: Thanks to the little Apple did share ahead of its September 10 event, we knew that Arcade would launch with more than 100 different games, including a new Sonic the Hedgehog game and the revamped Frogger. Apple also said in March that Arcade wouldn't have ads or require additional purchases and that games would be available offline and playable on an iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Mac. And rather than releasing as a dedicated app, Arcade will release within the App Store as a new tab.
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Hahahhaahahahha
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Almost as if Apple had a series of announcements today.
Fuck Apple (Score:1)
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Shouldn't that be "Fuck Konami" instead?
Sounds nice (Score:2)
Then again , when i realized the scope of the quality of games on my phone my purchases abruptly declined. I try a random game once in a blue moon.
And i don't mean the graphics or the game-play, or the controls.
I mean the combination. Mostly the controls, and i'm not going to carry a blue tooth controller around with me everywhere I go.
So yeah, most games are shite. some are Ok.
But an Apple arcade subscription is a no-go for me.
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Does it have Photoshop? (Score:2)
Retro Pie?!? (Score:2)
So anyone thats actually doing the research, because I really cant bring myself to do it, is there anything they are offering for $5/mo that I can't get by just installing RetroPie on the latest Pi4? Ive already got it on the Pi3, I am just waiting for them to get everything working on the pi4 and for a few better heatsink cases to come out for the new board.
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I'm in the same boat. I have a pi 3 running retro.
I'm actually on a waiting list for the circuit board for the pi-boy zero, by Galaxy Gaming.
You can basically build a rechargeable handheld the size of a game boy pocket that runs everything up through Super Nintendo/ Genesis /Turbographics 16
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oh the good old days
interesting that the PS1 plays even better than the TG16 in retropie, I did like FF7 on the PS1. But Shadowrun on the SNES had to be my favorite. Breath of fire 3 on PS1 isnt bad either.
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You can basically build a rechargeable handheld the size of a game boy pocket that runs everything up through Super Nintendo/ Genesis /Turbographics 16
Apple Arcade has the advantage that the games can be played on both your mobile phone & Apple TV. I can use my PS4 [pushsquare.com] controller with the iPhone if I wanted to, or with my Apple TV. $4.99 doesn't sound too bad for that. Granted you're not going to get PS4/XBONE/PC quality games, but if the game is fun it doesn't matter.
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$4.99 doesn't sound bad.
$4.99 per MONTH is a fucking horrible deal.
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A World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy XIV subscription is a lot more than 4.99 per month. And that's for a single game.
And both Sony and Microsoft ask for a lot more to connect to their networks.
Apple is playing their cards extremely right with the pricing of both Apple TV+ and Apple Arcade.
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Go buy yourself one of those 1000-game chunks of mall kiosk shit, have all the Frogger and Tetris you want. Apple is smart, because they know how smart people paying for Candy Crush are.
Let me know when they put a million hours of development into Flappy Bird. Let me know when someone plays it for 10,000 hours.
Normally I can say shit taste is beneath me but ignoring the cancer lets it grow into the industry. Your loot boxes now go all the way up to to the triple-As. We shouldn't have complained about DRM ch
Re: Retro Pie?!? (Score:2)
Afaik the battery life of all these homemade Pi based portable game consoles has been pretty terrible. As in âzGame Gearâoe level bad.
Iâd love a link to a design that can do like 5+ hours of gaming on a charge.
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So anyone thats actually doing the research, because I really cant bring myself to do it, is there anything they are offering for $5/mo...
The article above linked to an earlier article with a little more detail. Not much about specific games, but it lists several respected game companies/designers, many of which have large back-catalogs of games that give a good idea of what will probably be in the package... Klei (Don't Starve), Sega (Sonic, etc.), Konami, Sakaguchi (i.e. Final Fantasy and more), Will Wright, and others.. Here's the article: https://gizmodo.com/apple-fina... [gizmodo.com] And I copied the pertinent parts of the article here:
"Notable new
At least it's the right price (Score:3)
$4.99 for unlimited games on all iOS and macOS platforms sounds pretty nice, especially for casual gamers. These days even the 'casual' games on Steam cost at least $19.99 on launch and even Humble Bundle costs $12/month for generally crap games with micro-transactions and add-on content that suddenly becomes critical in multiplayer.
The fact that Apple has outright banned micro-transactions makes this a win for me. Hell, even Microsoft and Sony is charging upwards of $10/month just to be able to connect their $70 games to a network.
If this has a nice library, I may be convinced to pay for it, hopefully Nintendo will port some of its classic library. Since the AppleTV now has the juice and controller support, if you just want to relax after a hard day's work and don't have the time to spend hours on a $49.99 + micro-transactions for a top-end game (if you have a real job and family)
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and how long before they add an prime level with some games needing you to buy the $10/mo level.
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Every new map, story, part is also for sale
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$4.99 for unlimited games...
I don't think it's unlimited games, unless of course you consider being able to play Frogger in perpetuity "unlimited games"
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It's not a "limited selection they provide each month". They're adding new games every month. So it may be 100 games at launch and then probably around 10 more games per month.
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It's not a "limited selection they provide each month". They're adding new games every month. So it may be 100 games at launch and then probably around 10 more games per month.
Ahhhh that is the very definition of LIMITED. 100 is also not very many given the majority won't appeal to any one person. I would be shocked if they added 10 a month as well, would be expecting more towards the low single digit number, happy to be pleasantly surprised but given Apple put profits way ahead of users I am not expecting much.
In defense of Sony (Score:2)
Hell, even Microsoft and Sony is charging upwards of $10/month just to be able to connect their $70 games to a network.
It's not Just that (at least not with Sony), on Sony it is also a few free games per month (sometimes real games like Bloodbourne) but more importantly, backup of your save game data. That has saved my ass at least once when the internal HD failed in a PS4. So at least there is value beyond being able to play multi-player games.
parent's dream (Score:5, Insightful)
Every game is full of advertisements for other games that are free and full of ads. It's a tortuous endless loop. I crave the opportunity to simply buy a damn game for my child to play and be done with it. I've been looking forward to this subscription service as a solution for a long time. I'll be signing our family up on day 1. Nice that the games are cross-device compatible -- AppleTV, MacOS, iPad.
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Apple TV, macOS, iPad and iPhone.
And I'm not quite sure but I think they said we'll be able to stop playing on one device and continue playing on another?
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Friend got his 5yo son a switch, boy loves his Mario. No ads, no timers, no diamonds, no p2w. Likes the SNES Mario Kart more than the rest (meh) and pestering people to play with him.
But Apple is the savior who brought us "real games" rid of f2p crap, disregard the ones on offer for decades. At least I'm hopeful their premium offerings will rank above the minigames that are nested as sidequests in real ones. Surely people won't be paying a monthly fee for match3s and bubble popping, right?
Do you know? (Score:1)