New iPods have Pac-Man, others

[phaxda]

Breaking news from the Apple Special Event. You can buy games for the new iPod. They showed Pac-Man and others will be available for download...

 

10:10 am iLounge: games will work on 5G ipods

10:09 am iLounge: games for sale off iTunes for $4.99

10:08 am iLounge: new iPod software features: instant searching, new games (Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Mahjong, Mini golf, pac man, tetris, texas holdem, vortex, and zuma)

Edited September 12, 2006 by phaxda

[Vic George 2K3]

Maybe Apple should have come up with an iPod made for music, videos, AND games, rather than trying to fit games into an existing iPod made for music and videos (or just music).

Edited September 13, 2006 by Vic George 2K3

[sega saturn x]

Maybe instead of getting games they could make them out of something that scratches less than the fine china they are currently made out of. Screw games and movies why don't you make it slightly durable instead?

[MCHufnagel]

Maybe instead of getting games they could make them out of something that scratches less than the fine china they are currently made out of. Screw games and movies why don't you make it slightly durable instead?

But then you wouldn't have a reason to purchase a new model every other year!

[Lord Helmet]

Maybe instead of getting games they could make them out of something that scratches less than the fine china they are currently made out of. Screw games and movies why don't you make it slightly durable instead?

 

The new Nano and Shuffle are aluminum

[SomeGuyWithDSL]

So where is everyone that's supposed to be welcoming Apple back to the video game arena? Show yourselves, you legions of Pippin owners.

 

Joking aside, if Mattel's Hyper Scan "card battling system" can bring people out of the woodwork on this forum ... Does no one see the framework Apple is laying here?

 

I assume the games work with the video output on the iPod resulting in a plug-and-play big screen experience. If the next gen of iPod features BlueTooth support, we could see a wireless controller (or 2?) for playing games on your TV from a docked iPod.

 

With enough success, that could very easily turn into the framework for a new console with an online distribution infrastructure in place, somewhat like an Xbox Live Arcade standalone console. Given the success of Live Arcade, it's not impossible to imagine a company like Apple considering a console built on classics and new simple games. Tetris and Pac-Man are a good start, not to mention the support of EA.

 

Just a thought.

[Vic George 2K3]

Apple's more than welcome to join the handheld gaming market party; I just wish their choice of HOW they're doing that was a better one.

[sega saturn x]

I'm just finding it really odd that there is so much money in this Itunes crap. Don't get me wrong digital distrabution is a great idea. But after I downloaded a couple of (free) episodes of x play and two MST shorts that was about it. And when my Ipods memory got wiped I never had any urge to put them back on.

 

The battery only lasts about an hour with videos (if that) so movies on a video Ipod just seems moot. And that damn wheel is just hardly exceptible for picking songs let alone playing games.