Apple prepares its own portable console

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Apple was preparing its own console with the Nintendo Switch in mind. The rumor about an Apple console is not new, but the rise of certain services like Apple Arcade and the fact that the company has been trying to find exclusive titles for its platform for months, reinforces this rumor. Internally, teams of developers are working on “games to rival Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey” . These would be almost ready and launched with the console.

Apple arcade console In reality, it would be simple for Apple to launch a portable console, since it has everything it needs in terms of hardware. An A15 SoC would already be significantly more powerful than the SoC that integrates the Nintendo console, not to mention the new M1 SoCs that have more graphic optimizations. According to iDROPNews, Apple wants to go further than games and be able to aggregate various content on a high-end console. This project is well advanced and its schedule has just been delayed due to Covid. Several signals reinforce the hypothesis here too. Thus in 2019 Apple filed a patent on an accessory very similar to the Joy-Con. Finally, there is the positioning of the Apple TV, ambiguous see bastard. This console would be a hybrid device capable of uniting the two worlds. A portable console and a home console, all in a premium package as Apple knows how to do. So are we going to see a new segment attacked by Apple or is Apple going to fail miserably by reviving the memory of the Pippin?