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by skoczko 1342 days ago
As mentioned by other commenters: the point is playing games on Apple Arcade. For $149 you get a pretty powerful game console, more powerful than the latest iPad for a fraction of the price. You need to get a controller though or use a PS4/xbox one if you have those. Otherwise, yes, Apple TV is ridiculously overpowered for a streaming box. I actually don’t get why Apple is not promoting Arcade/gaming on this as the main use case. I was expecting that this would be the main marketing message. The remote should also be more geared towards gaming, initial reports suggested that it could’ve been the case.
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Oh I see. I have a ps, pc and switch to play already so I guess Apple Arcade doesn’t pull me enough. Thanks for sharing!