Would it be smart for Apple to create their own console? Please read OP

[JoeTheBro]

spemanig said:

JoeTheBro said:
Apple creates markets, they don't enter them.

They wouldn't make a video game system unless it was like the Wii.

...They entered the cell phone market. You can go on about them "creating the smart phone market," but what they really did was revolutionize the cell phone market. Who's to say they couldn't do the same for consoles. If any company had the balls to try and sell a digital-only home console, it would be Apple. And all they'd have to do is make their iConsole absorb their Apple TV the same way the iPhone absorbed the iPod.

If they really could get good support from 3rd parties, I'd buy it.

http://youtu.be/hlxgD-gvvXE

This is a video on how Apple could go about entering the console market. While I think Apple would be more ambitious (like creating a real controller and building a console with usable RAM and all that jazz), it does help to visualize how this could work. I think they could pull it off.

By that logic the ipad just revolutionized the laptop market and apps just revolutionized the handheld gaming market.

No, I don't think that, but we'd be arguing over semantics. Revolutionize or create, they're still completely changing the game. That's why I said their system would have to be like the Wii. Nintendo's system ended up being a fad, but it still created its own market/ecosystem instead of competing with the other consoles.

The iConsole couldn't just be a better PS4. For it to follow trends from recent Apple products, it'd need to be a whole new experience.

 

Digital-only is certainly not that. The only revolution there is the lack of an inexpensive disc drive. Also that video was kinda amussing, considering the end talking about ouya.