Let's get the salt at the ready with this one, but tipsters have uncovered some interesting information when they was stalking around the code for iOS 4.3 - and what they have uncovered is that the men in suits at Cupertino Apple HQ might be planning online gaming through Apple TV a la Xbox Live.
They have uncovered some interesting clues, with several references have been found pertaining to “ATVGames” and “ATVThunder” that point to a controller of some sort, leaderboards (think Game Center), a way to schedule games (multiplayer?), and a store front (think App Store, iTunes).
Also worth mentioning are the unearthing of two strings “com.apple.appletv.play.live.thunder” and “.play.archive.thunder” - but does this point Apple making their Apple TV service a gaming devices - were not sure.
If it was being considered it might work like new streaming gaming portal, OnLive, where you can stream games over the internet without having any of the expensive equipment.
Apparently OpenGL is mature and thoroughly implemented enough that streaming low bandwidth data and computing locally could happen, but that’s just theoretical with nothing in the code to back it up yet.
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More likely to be OpenCL rather than OpenGL. I’ve been saying for a while that Apple should do a console.