In this video, indie guys Unit-e Technologies shows off their iOS ready arcade machine that syncs in real time to your phone.

Features include QR Code login with your phone
Versus feature for the player waiting in line to play along with the person playing on the machine
Uploading of Avatars

All real cool and all but the question needs to be asked: “Is it worth spending all this time and dev on an arcade machine integration when the gaming market just has to be unfairly slanted to people playing the actual games on their devices and not really too keen on standing in line to play on an arcade machine?”

I know one of the arguments FOR this integration is going to be the spectator element, but isn’t this also being taken care of online with real-time streaming.

The benefits of this sort of thing do exist though: high score scanning, location tracking, uploading of player profile etc. But from a money-making, business perspective, surely this is a truly tiny market?

Nice idea guys, but 10 years too late?