It looks like apple is entering the gaming space with apple tv.

[Bofferbrauer]

Conina said:

Bofferbrauer said:
So, Apple Pippin 2 incoming? Not gonna work out - for Apple I mean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Bandai_Pippin

More to the point, what would they deliver as software? Apple is not a Videogame developer at all, and only trying to survive on third party games and brand power can't go well over prolonged periods of time.

Over $10 billion revenue (70%) paid to app developers + over $4 billion (30%) revenue for Apple to keep last year: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/08/apples-app-store-generated-over-10-billion-in-revenue-for-developers-in-record-2014

The biggest part of the AppStore-revenues are games. Most of Apple's 30%-share will be profit with no own risk. With these numbers Apple can "risk" another iOS form factor and should "survive" if it flops.

Yes, that's true. But Smartphones are not being bought because of the games in the respective store now, do they? Thus exclusive titles don't matter at all on  smartphone/tablet device. On a video game console however, exclusives do matter. So a console without any exclusive titles will invariably fail.