/v/ - Video Games

>>16535898

>iOS

Stopped reading

Phone games will never be good because the moment a developer is told their game is going to be on them they immediately forgo any effort.

>>16535908

Here's the thing, apparently the Apple Arcade games aren't gatcha's but rather fully fleshed out games

Also sorry for the ID hopping, VPN is acting up.

>>16535924

It's just going to be ports with busted controls and interfaces. Don't expect anything from this outside of some zero effort Square Enix release you'll wish you never bothered to spend time on.

>>16535919

You think so? I mean, I hate Apple just as much as the next guy. But apparently they have some high profile talent working for them.

>>16535932

I hope you're right.

>>16535936

You really arent fooling anyone, apple employee number 2875.

>>16535943

Jokes on you, I'm actually Tim Cook.

>>16536077

Jokes on you, I'm actually Steve Jobs from hell.

>>16536571

This is a joke right?

>>16536596

Only if you buy it

>>16536596

>>16536571

Is this an out of season April's Fool joke?

>>16536571

>It's real

Holy shit, I don't think I've laughed that hard in a long time. You can build a few computers with significantly better specs at the same price.

>>16536567

You should bring your fellow faggot Cook down with you then.

>>16536571

Ah, the e621 computer.

>>16536571

My 11 year old piece of shit has better specs than that.

It's going to fail.

People don't want to play traditional AA/AAA games on mobile, outside of a handful of emulator autists - and they already have their solution with no need for a subscription based service. People who play on mobile want simple distractions that don't require much attention or cognition to play - because it's just a time waster while they're waiting in line, taking a shit, or for their secret Grindr hookup to text them back. At best, mobile games serve to make the user look busy as a social "Fuck off, don't talk to me" flag to display - without actually having to do anything yet not looking from the outside as if they're actually playing a game in a public space.

Nobody actually gives a shit about mobile games.

>Sayonara wild hearts isn't bing bing wahoo exclusive

btfo!

>>16536629

actually it costs as much as roughly 100 PS3s, the price has droped quite a bit in 12 years

>>16537494

But that's wrong you fucking retard. Have you not seen mobile gaming surpassing the PC marketplace? The revenue generated blows console and PC games combined. Or the Switch?

gooch's game looks cool but he deserves better than this

>>16536643

>>16536813

apple essentially holds their os hostage which used to work when final cut and motion were competitive pieces of software but then they abandoned the professional userbase for like 10 years so that they could be a phone company instead. the only advantage they have at this point is that you don't have to use windows 10

>>16537792

>revenue

There's that word again.

>>16536571

256GB SSD for $6K? What the actual fuck, Apple

>>16535898

>Apple

Oh boy! I can't wait to be locked out of my games for flashing an OK symbol in front of my camera.

>>16536571

One of the most expensive cheese graters and apple idiots will buy it.

>just telling a story

fuck this bullshit

>>16548097

This probably took more effort and resources to make.

>>16548097

to be fair, single pieces of wood the size of a small stump, polished and treated, can be worth various large sums of money. wood can be very expensive, especially as a piece of furniture.

It states it's an end table, so it might be 2 or 3 feet high, and it's solid. it's most likely a sought after type of wood as well

>>16548449

If you look at the thumbnail it was clearly sanded down and covered in lacquer so effort was put into it to likely make it some kind of furniture piece

>>16548434

>>16548449

Like clockwork, the (((lumberjacks))) come out of the woodwork to TIMBERRRRR over people pointing out the ludicrously priced furniture. Take a cork and get out of here. I'm onto your typical cuts.

>>16535898

Definitely cancer, but I only hope MS comes out on top because they practically own PC gaming in general (as much as that is possible). Any success for them trickles down to the PC as well. Every other competitor takes you away from PCs entirely, so fuck them.

>>16548097

It's even better than video games

>>16548053

>The fucking stand is at the price of a little PC

Don't tell me people buy this.

>>16548620

People don't, no, but Caliphornians and school administrators definitely do.

>>16535898

>oy vey what does /v/ think of [x], where [x] is something we have universally hated for over a decade

Never post again.

>>16536643

It’s a workstation, dipshit. It’s not meant as a consumer product.

>>16548692

>>16548697

Hey Tim. Hows the AIDS going?

>>16548699

>you’re a faggot and an apple employee because you don’t support this and posted facts that hurt my feelings

Reported, then. You’re clearly bumping this thread to spam for absolutely no reason. Apple doesn’t give a fuck about games, and we hardly care about them.

>>16536643

But anon, you're paying for the Apple experience.

>>16548774

>$12-45k for a desktop computer

I'm almost certain I can build a low-end supercomputer for that much

>>16548774

>broken

More like the clock detects you're product has been in use for to long and throttles the CPU until it hits an arbitrary threshold where it refuses to boot.

>>16548787

Wait, does Apple products really do that?

>>16548787

With certain machines, it's down to 1st year interns or pajeets designing the damn things without thinking very simple things through.

>>16548796

They were caught doing it with their phones and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the desktops did it too. Now the laptops on the other hand melt before anything like that could happen so no worries there.

>>16548856

They were actually contacted by Congress, but of course nothing happened because those faggots are easily swayed.

>>16548883

Well, US border patrol still confiscates refurbished parts imported from outside the US because they labeled them as counterfeit and congress believed it. It's why refurb-makers cover the logo in marker first.

>>16548904

>you will never spend life in gitmo for importing a bootleg NeoGeo AES board

>>16548787

Didn't they do something like that with older iphones? They were throttling performance because of some software bug.

>>16549036

The official statement was that it happened when your battery started deteriorating, but people found it kept happening even after replacing it so they quickly made it an option, that's on by default of course and hidden away in some obscure menu, to cover their asses.

>>16548796

No, it’s throttling done at a battery’s EoL.

>>16548786

That’s because it’s not a desktop.

>>16548774

It starts at 6.

>>16549036

>stuck with an iPhone 4S up until August last year

>battery could hold a charge despite being used daily for five years straight

>added a battery case and I could go five days without charging it once if it was on low power mode

guess I just got lucky

>>16548786

You shouldn't believe clickbait anon. It starts at $6k, although that's still ludicrously overpriced. The 'maxed out' version probably includes thousands of thousands of dollars of "pro" programs too, inflating the price. If you want a real laugh check out how expensive it is to add RAM from Apple. You're talking 300% of market prices.

>>16548856

This one was much funnier:

>Why Apple is removing ‘time remaining’ battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints

http://archive.is/4fUkj

>>16549125

>add RAM from Apple

Assuming you can. Plenty of their machines solder the RAM and SSDs to the board nowadays.

>>16549125

>overpriced

A comparable PC is 3k more. AMD is making custom GPUs for Apple (they should have demanded Thunderbolt-out support but NOT custom cards), too.

>>16549187

The worst part is that they can get away with it because the display panel it accompanies is 10x cheaper than anything else on the market that does what it does. Most people in its market will buy the VESA mount instead, though.

>>16549180

I bet money there are anons in this thread right now that built better PCs for less than $999.

Where did you get your statistic, Tim? Show me the $9000 PC you're looking at.

>>16549200

It's fucking Apple, they could take a shit and as long as the poo is molded into a perfect square box with perfect 90 degree angles and polished to be a "shiny" kind of poo Apple fags would still buy it

>>16549227

to be fair I thought the G4 cube was one of their best designs, it's a shame you can't do something like that today without having it burst into flames.

>>16549227

I remember talking to a classmate girl of mine years ago, around the time of the iPhone 5 or 6. She wanted to buy a new iPhone and I tried telling her to save her money and get something cheaper, since it's the same specs. Might have even offered to help her pick one since I worked at a retail store back then. Her response was "well, iPhones have better cameras than Samsungs so they're better for taking selfies".

I don't think it's really possible to argue with people like that.

>>16549245

yeah, it wasn't some weird space alien shit or a trash can, it made sense, didn't take up much space (unless you had the AC adapter set up like a retard), and was nice to look at. Compared to all the RGB LED shit we have today, I'd gladly take the cube.

>>16549180

<A comparable PC is 3k more

>a non-Apple pc build with an 8-core cpu, 32GB ram, 256GB SSD, 8GB vid card will cost ~$9000

Citation needed, faggot.

>>16549180

>A comparable PC is 3k more.

>Apple doesn’t give a fuck about games, and we hardly care about them.

>we hardly care about them.

Stop trying to fit in you gigantic faggot

>>16549262

Learn what a workstation is. I don’t see you whining about how HP sells a $100,000 computer that sits on a desktop.

>>16549279

>I care about Apple

>here

>I fit in

Stop trying to fit in.

>Apple was actually decent at one point

>Now reduced to this

It seriously suprises me how well they do despite their fuck ups. It should suprised me that they're still widly successful from a product that was released 12 fucking years ago. But normalcattle will stick only to what they knowI did try to iPhone XR and MacBook Pro. If I didn't have certain apps or customize my phone to do certain things I would of likely switched it, assuming I was ignorant on tech.I do like the MacBook Pro though for daily use. And no I didn't buy it from them directly

>>16549297

>provides no citation

Still gonna need that citation for the ~$9000 pc build, retard.

>>16549341

>literally the BTO page on HP’s website

>model number right there

>entire spec sheet right there

<DURRRRR NO CITATION

Why are you even here? You were blown the fuck out. It’s over. Go worship your streaming services somewhere else.

>>16549345

>retard thinks I'm talking about HP

Try taking Tim Cook's dick out of your mouth for a second so you can focus on the conversation, you nigger.

Please show us all how a comparable pc build will cost ~$9000.

>>16549356

>can’t read

>literally cannot read

>keeps spamming the thread

<DURRRRR SHOW ME THING U ALREADY SHOW

I’m going to keep posting because I want to watch your descent into absolute fucking autistic madness.

>>16549345

Are you just insane or do you think no-one will notice that you're defending apple while implying other people are defending them?

Are you fucking stupid?

>>16549362

>muh gay HP workstation proves me right

Wrong, nigger. You originally said that "a comparable PC" would cost ~$9000, you mentioned nothing about comparing Apple's retarded "workstation" with HP's retarded "workstation".

Go suck Apple off someplace else.

>>16549365

>you’re defending apple because you posted facts

That’s precious. Keep posting.

>>16549384

>a comparable PC

Yes, and I posted one.

>you mentioned nothing about the thing you explicitly mentioned and proved

This is truly hilarious. You were blown the fuck out. Keep posting.

>>16549397

>continues to imply that since HP sell a similar "workstation" for an equally retarded price, then it's all okay

>also thinks that calling it a "workstation" justifies the ludicrous price despite that it has shitty specs and any brainlet could build a far more powerful pc for the same price if not less

Get AIDS and die, apple-kike.

>>16549445

The HP workstation can actually do things

>>16549445

>nowhere near identical

>doesn’t know what a workstation is

<DURRRRR U PAID TO POST BY APPLE HERE CUZ U NO LIKE APPLE HURR

This is really fun. Please keep posting.

>>16549468

Said things being?

Is the argument now going to be "software"? Because the anon was only talking about hardware earlier.

>>16549470

Yes, I would agree on it being indefensible as well. Apple is the one who popularized these practices.

>>16549474

>nowhere near identical

Which spec, exactly? Or is it in the fact that this machine won't set itself on fire?

Do you want the EXACT components? I picked BETTER ones. Because if that's the case, we can try to Mcguiver something from parts made in 2002 and complain about it costing $50k.

>>16548786

>low-end

You could easily build a small server farm, host your own web application and start a business for that type of money. Or build a few gaming servers and start a rental service.

>>16549483

He seems to think that a pc with the label "workstation" is magically far more powerful than a "non-workstation" pc with equivalent (if not better) specs. I think he's an actual brainlet.

>>16549483

>what spec

Either look at performance in the appropriate workspaces when comparing consumer and Xeon chips or don’t bother. You didn’t pick better anything. That’s not ECC RAM. That’s not an M.2 drive. That’s not a kilowatt PSU. There’s no 10gig Ethernet. Workstations have specialized requirements, anon. It’s not a fucking gaming PC. You’d be laughed out of the room if you said, “oh, I have my own hardware” and brought that thing into a business that does rendering (video or 3D).

>>16549496

Keep posting. It’s hilarious.

>>16549530

Because it’s a Mac/PC war faggot talking about yet another streaming game service. We already know it’s going to be shit, most of all because Apple couldn’t give a fuck about video games. This is their first conscious effort into the field since the fucking Pippin. Worst part is that it might actually do “well” solely because of the size of their user base. Unfortunately the same might be true of Stadia (but only on phones/tablets). “Input lag” doesn’t mean much to the people who play candy crush.

>>16549496

I'm quite hurt. I went out of my way to look for parts with the exact specs as that shitty HP machine, too. Given more freedom, I could have put something way more practical together. There's very little need for a GPU that powerful in a machine with this type of CPU. I've done 3D Modeling, image editing and Video editing, and on my piece of shit, video was the only one bottlenecked in any way, and the bottleneck was the CPU (i5 4460, 3.2GHz). My GPU's a 4 GB GTX 960. I'm sure if you're doing 4k or 8k editing, you'd need a GPU that good, but the CPU would make it a potato anyway.

>>16549526

>ECC RAM

https://www.newegg.com/crucial-32gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/0RN-003K-000J7?Description=Crucial-16GBx2-PC4-21300-288&cm_re=Crucial-16GBx2-PC4-21300-288-_-0RN-003K-000J7-_-Product

>m.2 SSD

https://www.newegg.com/team-group-ms30-256gb/p/N82E16820331230?Description=m.2%20256%20gb%20ssd&cm_re=m.2_256_gb_ssd-_-20-331-230-_-Product

>10 gig ethernet

https://www.newegg.com/hp-468332-b21/p/N82E16833316255?Description=10gb%20ethernet%20card&cm_re=10gb_ethernet_card-_-33-316-255-_-Product

$22 extra for RAM, $-6 extra for the SSD, $37.68 for the network card. The PSU has no need to be a kilowatt, I picked one according to the power consumption of my build. If you want to waste electricity, sure.

Total price is now $1334.21. Wanna keep going?

>>16549619

Funny how he goes radio silent now.

>>16549328

If it weren't for their contracts with pretty much every school in America I'd be willing to bet they would be in last place in the tech market. I haven't seen an iPhone in the wild in like 8 years now.

>>16549619

>and the bottleneck was the CPU

So it's even funnier that you continue to ignore the importance thereof in your gaming computer dolled up to look like a workstation.

>>16550054

You forget software firms anon, plenty of them and the retarded devs that use them still buy into the walled garden meme or the meme that they're somehow better for developing front end.

I actually saw a HackerNews post (was troubleshooting, I'd never visit that shithole otherwise, it's basically Silicon Valley Shitposting Central) where the topic was whether or not ZeroMQ, a library for communicating between two applications, was worth using and its flaws. One of the replies was a guy complaining who didn't realize there was an existing feature he could use that addresses his complaint. When someone else pointed that out to him and asked him how it went, his reply was "I switched to iOS development ;)" No one but Apple devs can stand being around Apple devs.

>>16550075

And I don't believe anyone would fall for their software if not for the shiny boxes they come in that are subsidized by the government. Imagine them trying to sell FinalCut or whatever the fuck else anyone uses those things for on their own.

>>16550084

I don't understand how devs fall for it at all. Have you seen Objective-C? It's like Terry Davis tried to reimplement C++ and then got raided by glow in the dark CIA niggers halfway through.

>>16550093

They want to be different but they don't want to actually take the effort required to distinguish themselves. It's the only explanation that make sense.

>>16550110

More likely they see it as a way to avoid learning new software or libraries as frequently, outside of JavaScript. God, I hate programmers that don't care about the end product and just fuck around with meme libraries because they're new.