A game console in preparation at Apple? Not so fast…
Rumors have been racing since the takeover of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft. And perhaps the craziest of them is the indiscretion of Jez Corden, a journalist at Windows Central, who reports that Apple has poached quite a few Xbox engineers in recent months, which could imply that a console of Apple game may be in the cards again. If it is quite possible that Xbox engineers have been poached, the hypothesis of a game console remains totally improbable (not to say well farted). Given Microsoft’s recent huge investment in powering its Xbox GamePass, Apple may have other things to do than jump into an already hyper-competitive and rapidly changing market. The painful failure of the Pippin also probably buried Apple’s inclinations in the software sector. gaming.
On the other hand, engineers hired to enrich the VR game offer of Apple’s next VR headset (an Apple Arcade VR in short), this is already more credible, knowing that several leaks indicate that Apple will do a little more efforts on the game for its upcoming VR/AR hardware. Jez Corden also agrees:“I don’t know if it’s virtual reality, metaverse or something like that. It’s just something I heard, I don’t know if it will come to fruition or even if they have already canceled it”. So you probably don’t need to get too carried away…
