Will Apple Arcade kickstart a new era for mobile gaming? Could a low price point and large library be enough to lure new and old gamers in?
Apple Arcade’s March lineup adds Oceanhorn 3 alongside Pocket Love!+, Flow Free+, and new updates arriving across the service.
Hopefully Oceanhorn 3 will be on consoles eventually, like the first two games did
Sonic Dream Team, the new 3D action-adventure Sonic the Hedgehog game, exclusively makes its way to Apple Arcade.
Well darn. I've been wanting a sonic adventure and Sega just makes it exclusive to Apple. A hole move sega.
It does kind of look like that, but I'd wait for more video first for confirmation.
Apple obviously paid for exclusivity. Imagine playing a game like this on a touchscreen tho.. No thanks.
They haven't confirmed support to controllers yet. But a lot of Apple Arcade can be played with one and the cheapest/best entry point is the $140 Apple TV 4K.
Don't think it's worth it just for playing Sonic, but if you are also in business for a TV Box. It is a very solid option and rather on the cheap side, weirdly enough.
Sega d move guys make it console and pc too we'll play fr. You can make $20 or f2p and I'll join in.
Well, if that's the case I won't b playing it. Good luck to you on this one, Sega.
Apple just announced a price hike for its popular Apple Arcade service effective immediately, and it's proportionally a rather sizable increase. The new price is $6.99 a month, meaning a 40% increase over the previous $4.99.
The price hike for Apple Arcade was accompanied by similar increases for other subscription services by the company. For instance, Apple TV was increased from $6.99 to $9.99.
the issue is, that the minute they did it during the pandemic, they just stayed on that course and we are treated like dirt again.
profit is what they all want. scum.
I think this is the second price hike in 4 years. Now it's double the price of release which is pretty bad all in itself, but made worse by the fact that the service has not been pumping out good stuff lately. The crown jewel is still Fantasian from 2021 and a lot of the other big hitters got ported to PC/Console already.
I wonder what happened to that Fantasian PC rumor, I hope that's still in the works, I'm not buying Apple Arcade just for that.
Virtually every company is raising prices for virtually everything.
Either every company is somehow evil and can raise prices without regard for competition,
OR
We're experiencing inflation.
I feel like it's a little bit of inflation, but a lot of profiteering as well, I also feel like that profiteering is feeding to inflation and making it worse as well.
In a free market, when you raise prices you lose customers either due to exceeding the price elasticity or competition. Like, in this case customers could just buy games outright or get free to play games.
If people continue to pay the increased prices it's because they feel it's a fair value. "Profiteering" as a concept outside of like a monopolistic situation doesn't even make sense to me.
It's like drugs. The dealer gives people a taste for free or a reduced price. Once they are hooked the dealer jacks up the price. The addicts will pay because they can't live without it
Everything went up from Apple - Arcade, TV+, News as well as the One Plans that include them all and family plans. Subscription services are going to outpace cable etc. before we know it.
$2 is not a “massive” price hike. But I do think people are going to push back against subscription services and especially subscription software.
I avoid subscriptions where possible, but I can also drop quite a few of them as most aren't giving me the value I pay for. It's bull crap when you need a subscription for software like Photoshop, Microsoft Office, ect... It's the reason I haven't upgraded Clip Studio, I bought it already, I'm not paying for a subscription version.
There are a lot of old computers still going because they have a working copy of Photoshop installed.
Insane that every sub is sky rocketing with insane amount of ads like I'm watching cable now. YouTube is even worse now with the new ad system inget an ad on every video No matter the length. Crazy thing is TV cable wnlentnup double digi for the first time in awhile and I can see it going higher with all these subs costing so much with ad to lol
I dunno. I dont want to throw my money towards apple anymore.
Unlikely