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Would an Apple TV kill the console business?
Coincidence or not, it was a warning to console makers of things to come. While the old games industry gathered in LA for its annual E3 pissing contest, a loud message was sounding 350 miles to the north. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, which just happened to overlap with the biggest week in the games industry’s calendar, also just happened to feature a games-heavy keynote. Nine months earlier, Steve Jobs had unleashed both barrels against handheld rivals, declaring iPod Touch, with a sneaky fudge, “the number one portable games player in the world”, boasting that it “outsells Nintendo and Sony handhelds combined”. Read more…





