ImSpartacus wrote:Buub wrote:I've long wondered why Apple doesn't have a console, other than the fact that they seem smarter than Microsoft in the trying to be all things to all people camp.
But seriously, I think it's only a matter of time before something Apple TV-like sprouts a Kinect-like sensor and some serious gaming abilities.
Consoles are low-margin slugfests. Apple doesn't do low-margin.
There are other reasons, but that's the biggie.
It's not about the console anymore. The console has become a portal to the Internet that sits between it and your television. I've booked more hours on Netflix and Hulu, by a long shot, on my XBox 360 than I have playing games. Combine that with iTunes music, television, and movie rentals and sales, and an Apple console makes a lot more sense, even if just as an Apple TV with more capabilities.
Combine the above with Siri's vastly superior voice recognition over XBox Kinect's really lame voice recognition, and the fact that apparently Apple has some patents floating around on their own face and gesture recognition technology, and they may already have an "Apple Kinect" in the labs.
Top it off with how the iPhone and iPad are becoming really powerful gaming devices, and I think it just becomes natural.