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Rumor suggests Apple is developing a console rivaling Nintendo Switch

Rumor suggests Apple is developing a console rivaling Nintendo Switch
Written by Chandraveer Mathur
May 12, 2021, 07:38 pm 3 min read
Rumor suggests Apple is developing a console rivaling Nintendo Switch
Apple could be developing console to rival Nintendo Switch

Apple has long abstained from launching products and software features that would attract gamers to the company's ecosystem. However, if rumors circulating on the Korean forum Clien.net are to be believed, Apple could be in the process of developing a Nintendo Switch rival. The rumor suggests that Apple's product would feature an all-new processor, and enhanced GPU performance. Here are more details.

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Console would sport brand-new processor, improved GPU, ray tracing support

The rumor on the Korean forum was first spotted on May 7 by a Twitter user who goes by the handle FrontTron. The rumor suggests that the Cupertino-based giant doesn't intend to use the A-series or M-series of processors found in iPhones and MacBooks respectively. The original forum post lays emphasis on the rumored product's enhanced GPU performance and support for ray tracing.

Crash course
Ray tracing is a rendering technology that improves videogame visuals

Conventional videogame visuals are displayed by combining in-game 3D models, the gamer's perspective, and scene lighting into a 2D image using a proven technique called rasterization. Ray tracing essentially generates images by calculating reflections, refractions, and the overall path traced by billions of light rays from multiple sources illuminating a scene. Real-time ray tracing is highly resource-intensive and severely impacts a game's frame-rates.

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Ray-traced reimagining of 23-year-old game humiliates top-end gaming PCs

To put the impact of ray tracing into perspective, the 1997 game Quake 2 runs smoothly on PCs from its day. However, with full ray tracing enabled, Quake 2 RTX can bring today's top-of-the-line gaming PCs to their knees.

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Resource-intensive ray tracing computation would affect console's battery, thermals

In fact, real-time ray tracing is so resource-intensive that even top-end gaming PCs struggle to deliver acceptable frame-rates with it enabled. Not to mention, the computational power required would have a proportionally significant impact on the battery life and thermal performance of the said handheld.

Launch day titles
Rumors claim Apple talking with Ubisoft for console games

If implemented, ray tracing already puts the rumored Apple console leagues ahead of the Nintendo Switch. The latter is rumored to release in June packing support for 4K gaming in docked mode using NVIDIA's DLSS technology. Furthermore, the rumor suggests that Apple is in talks with Ubisoft, in addition to other famous developers to create or port games to its console.

Details
Apple Arcade service hasn't wowed gamers despite new title additions

BGR reported that last month Apple launched a new set-top box with a better processor, but it didn't make any attempt to entice gamers. Around the same time, 30 new titles were added to Apple Arcade, the company's not-so-popular game subscription service available on iPad and Apple TV. These incremental updates won't help Apple's brand value unless the company launches competent hardware for gamers.

Reason
Unreliable rumor challenges everything known about Apple's brand image

That said, the rumor comes from an uncorroborated, unreliable source and doesn't contain specifics regarding launch or the device's internals. Moreover, it seems unlikely that a company that hasn't even used RGB in products would launch a console rivaling Nintendo's offering. We believe that instead, a game controller for the iPad or the Apple TV could be a smarter low-effort move with richer dividends.

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