http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/11/apple-could-usher-in-a-new-era-for-video-games.aspx

I came across this article which I can only hope was meant as a joke. 

What do you guys thing about this article?

In summary it says that due to apple phones popularity and waning sales of Consoles that Apple TV will create a new space for home video games that is welcome to everyone of all ages and could possibly take over the console market.

When you read the website name you understand everything

I thought so at first but after reading a few of the aricles it seems like the site owner is trying to report with serious intent.

That would require the Apple TV to be a desirable product outside of gaming first.

This is what was said by some about the Ouya to

I hate to break it to you, but this is an investing website that actually reports seriously - it actually gave Long NOK guidance just prior to the D&S Division acquisition by Microsoft, so I trust them to an extent.

But this article, I don't take seriously.

No one wants to work with Apple if they have a choice.

I wonder if anyone here remembers the Apple Pippin?

I certainly don't believe it will kill off traditional consoles but I do think microconsoles have potential to find a large audience of more family/casual demographics.

To be serious competition in gaming they'd need to get a decent swag of AAA exclusives, either moneyhatting 3rd parties for existing popular franchises, or building their own 1st party development groups. I'm not sure Apple is terribly interested in doing either of those things. I think they will be happy for Apple TV to be useable as a game streaming machine, but I'm not sure they will see it as a core function that will achieve mass market penetration. Apple TV largely only sells to Apple fans. Eveyone else pretty much uses devices they already own, with an HDMI port, for streaming content (laptops, tablets etc) or they buy the much cheaper options like Chromecast.

It seems like the Motley Fool is a bit like a collective Michael Pachter. They give good tock market investing advice by having a very sound general grasp on the market. But when it comes to making specific predictions about one single product they are no better at reading the tea leaves as anyone else. They, or the person writing the article, may also be Apple fanboys.

Anyway, I think MS and Sony are seeing the writing on the wall for the traditional console model and moving towards streaming means they will be ready for that evolutionary step when it happens. I think hardware with download and physical disc capacity has at least one more successful generation to run.

Also you have to ask yourself whether Apple thinks a small proportion (currently) of the maybe 120 million households worldwide that buys at least 1 console every generation is a market worth spending time money and effort going after if they can just as easily try to get those same people to buy Apple phones and iPads and wean them onto Apple TV using current functionality.