Apple challenges game makers of mobile devices to interactive games and Mac

Apple plans to allow mobile devices and Mac computer users to play games with each other, increase the intensity of the challenge to the game console makers.

Apple to developers this week, said the Mountain Lion operating system will allow Mac users to connect your computer to the Apple called the Game Center, a social network among themselves and with the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users to play games. Before, the Game Center is open only to Apple mobile devices.

Apple also said the game from a Mac laptop, via a set-top box called Apple TV, transferred wirelessly to the TV, this technology is called the AirPlay. , AirPlay is only limited to Apple mobile devices.

Apple released in 2010, Game Center, the goal is to help mobile device users connected to each other, each other playing games. Players can take advantage of the Game Center compete with each other, record their own performance data.

Software vendors to participate in this week Apple the WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) forecast, the Game Center expansion will help to stimulate interest in the game to run on Apple hardware.

Mobile game development company XEODesign Nicole, president of La Zhaluo by Nicole Lazzaro said, “This will provide a more powerful gaming features, Apple has created the infrastructure, if Apple released a TV, it will have to develop good games required for all equipment and applications. “http://blog.livedoor.jp/shuaiziwei/

Some analysts acknowledge this and said that the growth of mobile devices, games will inevitably pull the living room and television business growth. Investment company Baird, Equity Research analyst Colin Sebastian Colin Sebastian said, “Over time, we found that even some of the core gaming market will turn to the application.”

The console maker is not Apple’s move lightly. The console makers have been observed for several years, Apple’s mobile devices has become a favorite of many new gamers and casual gamers, they would have to buy a Nintendo 3DS handheld or Sony Vita handheld.

Nintendo and Sony executives said that the number of games on the Apple platform continues to grow, but customers will continue to buy their products, to play Nintendo’s “Super Mario Brothers (Super Mario Bros.) and Sony’s WipEout” Popular games.

Nintendo and Sony have been in their platform to add new services to attract game developers to attract players to buy their products. For example, Nintendo plans to make landfall over the social networking Miiverse including the latest equipment, including 3DS PSP, Wii U Game Center and other games created by Sony and Microsoft network is similar to Miiverse so that players can communicate with each other, play games with each other.

Release development tools, the establishment of the gaming market for Android devices set up to help game developers to the development and marketing of games, the scale of $ 20 million fund, Sony has been in attracting small game developers. Sony’s 15 game development studios, developing new games.http://blog.livedoor.jp/xtc668-xtc668/

Microsoft also has 22 development studios, some games only support the Xbox platform, such as the Halo series of games. Microsoft also released a mobile game.クリスチャンルブタン

The game industry executives often praise the Apple device to expand the size of the player base, but they also pointed out that the time is shorter than the Apple device users every time you play the game.

The top game developers in the design of the game is a button on the handle, non-Apple devices to use the touch screen. Investment firm Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter, Michael Pachter, said that the situation may prevent the top game developers to port popular games to the iPad or iPhone.