Apple is working on a video game console
According to a rumor posted on the page Cult of Mac, Apple would be trying to return to the video game market as it would be working on a home console with a help of people from Valve.
As reported by this site Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, visited the Valve offices located in Bellevue, Washington last week. The reason for this visit would be that Cook is looking for advice to launch a TV device to be launched later this year under the Apple brand and would be a "game console type Kinect .According to the news system would be based on touch and motion controls, possibly via a touch screen that would come with the TV and is supplemented by the use of voice controls Siri style.
According to a rumor posted on the page Cult of Mac, Apple would be trying to return to the video game market as it would be working on a home console with a help of people from Valve.
As reported by this site Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, visited the Valve offices located in Bellevue, Washington last week. The reason for this visit would be that Cook is looking for advice to launch a TV device to be launched later this year under the Apple brand and would be a "game console type Kinect .According to the news system would be based on touch and motion controls, possibly via a touch screen that would come with the TV and is supplemented by the use of voice controls Siri style.
These rumors are in addition to reports that Valve is trying to enter the console market, after the company posted a job on your site looking for hardware engineers. According to the announcement Valve is looking to create "fully play experiences new ", and we have also reported the company attempts to investigate the field of augmented reality and computers to clothing. Nor Valve or Apple or have confirmed these rumors so far.
This would not be Apple's first attempt to enter the market for video game consoles. The company teamed up in 1995 to launch Bandai Pippin, a multimedia console based on the Macintosh operating system including Internet connection, something totally innovative for its time. However, the system was a complete failure as due to its high cost (600 dollars) less than 50,000 units sold so Bandai decided to withdraw from the market. But Pippin had one merit: it ranked 22 in the list of "worst tech products of history" of the magazine PC World. Looking for be ranked 21??
