Acer or Samsung

Acer already makes computers and has relationships with chip makers. They are the third largest computer manufacturer after HP and Dell but I think they have more style. Often their computers come with decent gpu cards.

Samsung make great TV's, phones, and cameras. As well as lots of other things including appliances. They have lots of experience in electronics and their network stretches across the world. They also would have the money for such a venture and wouldn't go broke if they failed.

General Electric.Mark my words.

How about "Crazy Billionaires New Hobby".

What ever happened to "The Rogue Billionare" or whatever that show was...

ummm... Walmart?
/ducks

They're be too interested in keeping there "Good Christian" store image to make an honest attempt at a videogame console in my opinion.

hugh hefner....

now thats a games machine i would like to play lol

Yeah, Panasonic, 3DO2 as the ultimate "mediacenter" game station. and then Atari with the Jaguar2. Maybe another Lynx (as a console version)? Now that would be the ultimate B-Console slugfest. Yeah!!!!!

i think any american company will look at MS and see how much work and cost its taken them to get as far as they have (fighting for second place/profit) and see theres no point, nobody else has such an amount of money to risk.

EA would be the most likely, but then why would they bother, they already publish on every format known to man, adding another into the equation wouldnt make much difference. Didn't they already try anyway with the 3DO?

A Japaneses manufacturer could have a go, but even then where would the pitch their machine, it would be useless going after a casual market and useless going for a hardcore market, again due to costs, but due to the fact the PS3 is already gaining ground.
To compete with Sony and MS you would need to be able to make hardware at a loss and very few companies can do that, even sony had to take out a loan.

The market doesn't need another machine in my opinion. 3 is more than enough, especially when 2 of them are doing the same thing.

If there were another machine on the market, it would need to be completely different, appealing to a new market...which would be....hmmmm...virtual sex-box maybe :)

I can only see a company like Google or something, I mean from a sector we don't have a company yet.

We have Nintendo as a company from the traditional toy and games sector, we have Sony from the electronic devices sector (while many others from that sector had a try and failed) and we have Microsoft from the software applications and PC and whatever they also do nowadays sector.

Apple is something like a hybrid between Sony and Microsoft when it comes to sectors they're in, so I don't see them entering the market as the other two haven't handled so great money-wise.

As for EA, I don't think they would be successful... I mean, imagine a console that consists only of EA games! Also, they had to do much more quality control. Maybe they'd have a chance if they teamed up with another third party that is better in the single-player games sector. The only company that comes to mind (because it would never be a japanes company) is Ubi Soft, another company that is known for games with low quality (amongst great ones of course).