Apple and Sony may team on game controllers for Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro
Apple and Sony have discussed forging a game controller partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro, Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg News adding, “Among the many drawbacks of Apple Inc.’s Vision Pro, its failure as a gaming device is perhaps the most glaring.”
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
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There are games on the device’s App Store, but there aren’t many — if any — compelling titles… Apple should have made gaming a priority by creating its own hand controllers and building a service specifically for the device. It also could have helped fund the development of big-budget games — the kind of “AAA”-level titles that entice an audience.
Without gaming, the Vision Pro’s $3,500 price is a particularly hard sell. Think about it: There are plenty of people willing to shell out thousands of dollars on gaming rigs, but there aren’t many who would spend that kind of cash for the Vision Pro’s current features.
Since the Vision Pro went on sale in February, I’m told that the company has sold fewer than half a million units. And a large number of Vision Pro buyers (those who haven’t returned it) aren’t using the product as much as Apple anticipated, according to internal data gathered by the company…
The product doesn’t support the advanced hand controllers that make gaming on rival headsets both more fun and precise. So even if Apple solves its content problem, the lack of hand controller support will still deter gamers.
There’s hope, though. Apple is now working on a major effort to support third-party hand controllers in the device’s visionOS software and has teamed up with Sony Group Corp. to make it happen.

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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s Vision Pro continues to be a work-in-progress beta DevKit.

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