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

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gabzjmm23 said:

Soundwave said:

I think Sony/MS are largely out of range of what this device does, but in a year or so an AppleTV with an A9 chip could be quite interesting. 

Nintendo, this probably stings a little more because it will likely gobble up or at least prevent them from really going down market now. A cheap console based around motion controls with free games-sub $5 games with the Apple name attached to it and the overall TV OS made for casuals takes that away from them. 

i'm generalizing, because each consumer going into casual gaming would be a lose to dedicated gaming.  if more people wanted casual gaming with those $4.99 or less, or free-to-play with microtransactions going into TVs.  Then dedicated gaming would surely lose more prospect buyers.

Not necessarily.  It's not like there isn't any overlap here.  The real, serious question is will the people who are on their phones (that they get for little to no money spent in many cases) going to spend a substantial chunk of change to even *buy* this device.  I mean, the whole reason these people ever bought a Wii was because they didn't have the free smartphone option.  Now they do, will they go back to spending that just for an Apple TV?  Especially when this device lacks a Mario or Metroid or Zelda - substantial expereicnes worth spending significant money upfront - associated with it?  Not saying those experiences don't exist, they do.  But those aren't the ones with TV commercials and all that.  Those are your Candy Crush and Clash of Clans.  But either way, I doubt this will represent any threat to the core gaming market as it sits now.  Because the people interested in "B" experiences and F2P/cheap games and nothing else already have that AND those interested in both...are interested in both.  And I highly, highly doubt Apple is interested at all in getting into a war with MS, Sony, and Nintendo as that would require a very high ammount of spending just to get in fighting shape.   Much easier for them to sit back and get what they can for the minimal cost.