Normally when we talk about Apple patents we expect new products or possible products that will arrive in the future, it also happens with these patents or registrations that only serve to ask for money in exchange in the case that someone wants to make use of it. This time what we have is a registration for a product we already know and what you want is to be added to the list of products registered as a console.
Apple TV currently has games, but the international registration application 028 is the one used for consoles and this is precisely the one that the Cupertino company wants for Apple TV. This is a somewhat strange move considering the nature of the product, but we will not be the ones to criticize this Apple record.
Patently Apple As always, it is in charge of showing this patent and what the company intends to register is the set top box as if it were a console. Changes in the near future for this device? Well, the truth is that the console market is currently quite crowded, soAnd it does not seem that Apple now wants to "put the nose" in the manufacture of its own console or something like that.
Undoubtedly, the fourth and fifth generation Apple TV has game applications and allows users who have them to enjoy them, but it is not a device specifically designed for gaming even though it has the SteelSeries wireless controller as an accessory. Nimbus and the power and ability to play 4k content to spare, making it which would allow to add some interesting game titles. This would be basically what Apple could have in hand with this record, launching a series of good video games not like the ones it has now that are directly redesigned applications for the set top box. We'll see what happens in the end.