The price they would attempt to charge for it!!!!

Currently the Sixaxis controller app in the Play store has been downloaded 50k – 100k times. Games like Shadowgun, Virtua Tennis, and Riptide natively support the use of controllers, and almost any Android phone released in the last year has the ability to output a mirror image of the screen to a TV. With Android 4.2 it’s now part of the OS to do it wirelessly.

Companies like Power A have jumped on the bandwagon with products like this:http://www.powera.com/moga. And indie hardware makers like this guy have been capitalizing on it too: http://buy.thegameklip.com/.

Combine all of this with things like OnLive, and the many emulators available, and gaming on Android does anything but suck. Start playing Shadowgun on your HD tv, and it looks just as good as an Xbox game, then when it’s time to leave, drop your phone into one of these portable controllers, and keep playing on the go. This brings you close to what Sony is trying to do with a PS3 and a Vita.

Its the same with their MAC line. They cant control every game to looks the same and run at specified frame rate etc, thats why in the end they simply ditch it. But that can change under new management direction.

If you are talking about the 1980-1990′s old MS, Sony or Nintendo gaming model of expensive hardware with physical games, etc… then you’re right.

And when they *do* allow for a graphics card under OSX, for instance the Mac Pro, they never go for high performance cards — strictly middle of the road. You want high performance? Sorry, no drivers.

So if, let’s say, they went to a bunch of developers and said, hey, we want to do games, the developers are going to look at the hardware and ask, “what, like checkers?” Imagine facing a collection of machines from crippled graphics to a few with middle of the road graphics and being asked to write performance graphics for them. I’ve been deep into the graphics pipeline (trying to get high speed DSLR editing going) and I can tell you that it’s a horror story.

This leaves out their complete failure to address bugs in the color management pipeline that have caused graphics processing logjams for several versions of the OS (so far… still not fixed…) They’re far too busy jumping from one OS rev to the next, leaving the old one behind with bugs in it. “ooooo shiney!” is Apple’s internal development mantra. In Leopard, they broke internal console messaging, particularly evident when using cron jobs. The bug was reported, they said they’d fix it… but they didn’t. Leopard is still broken that way. You want a fix, you have to Google for it and find the page where it’s been hacked to work the way it was supposed to in the first place. And then there are the “deprecated” APIs. “Here, use this thing!” then an OS rev later, “Oh wait, no, never mind, use this OTHER thing!” pfbbbt. I’ve had enough of that.

My macs, they’re reasonable dev workstations and media consumption devices, but as game machines… they just can’t cut it, they don’t have the graphics power, and Apple’s consistent track record of leaving the OS unstable while constantly moving the goalposts… as an Apple developer, I have learned to use as few OSX APIs as I can, and that’s a key thing that keeps my software stable and reliable. I wouldn’t try writing a game under these conditions. Games use *everything* and they use it hard.