Soundwave on 10 August 2012
Apple doesn't need to release a console to cripple the console makers.
What they need is to basically reverse the Wii U setup, by introducing an even cheaper AppleTV + game controller bundled with it for $99.
Then allow the iPhone/iPad/Mac to run the game wirelessly to the TV (instead of the Wii U setup where the console beams the signal to the controller screen).
Now let people buy games from the iTunes store ... stuff like Portal 2, Diablo III, Call of Duty, Final Fantasy, along with the Angry Birds type stuff. I'd be willing to bet a lot of third parties would jump onboard especially as the iPad gets more and more powerful. Very quickly I think you'd have a lot of Square-Enix, Capcom, EA, Activision, etc. content on it.
