Apple can't just create a "me too" console.

They'd have to make something unique and clever.

Apologies, but I wasn't referring to the handhelds but to home consoles. Thought that was implied. 

Its just that its common for people to forget that games are a significant part of iTunes so in a peripheral way they are involved in the game industry even though they aren't involved in the core game industry.

The iOS platform brings up an interesting conundrum as a platform for game sales; by the same token, would Valve be part of the games industry, or is this limited only to people making hardware on which sales platforms can operate? Would that make Dell part of the industry? Where is that line drawn?

I could see them making an app based console where games would be very cheap (1-20$) where their huge games would be around 21-40$, depending on demand. They would design their controllers to be Kinect like to surf round the apps and games and stuff. They would push the download distrubtion heavily for their console, too.

Their marketing strategy would probably be more like we have very cheap games, clean user intefernce, and a large variety of games. Their console may be rounded around 500$, depending on what they do with it.

oh, and they will probably port all those iphone games to their console.

it would do better the ps3 if it did all of that, that I am certain.

Im all for it Maybe slap there EA, THQ and Konami while at it

Apple know there casual, trendy, hippy urbanites, so if they enter the console business they'll go after Nintendo's crowd.

Let’s face it, Nintendo would lose against Apple, Apple has the stronger brand in the minds of these casual, trendy hippy urbanites.

In fact I'd say that Nintendo would be squeezed out of the market by Apple, I mean Nintendo can't compete with Microsoft or Sony on the hardware side, nor on the hardcore side, and Apple would be to strong of a competitor on the causal side, so this leaves Nintendo no where. Nintendo simply does not have any other business outside of gaming that could be used to help its gaming division while the others do.

All Nintendo fans should fear Apple; because the day Apple joins the console market is the day Nintendo dies. To be honest I don't want to see this happen.

I may talk shit about Nintendo and its fans, but at the end of the day I hate Apple more, side with the lesser of two evils as it were.

To me Apple is a python that squizzes the life out of you, a company that sells based on looks and charges a premium for it, a company who is too controlling and restrictive. It's kind of ironic that they call themselves apple, as it was the apple who enticed Adam and Eve, but it was the snake that utterly doomed them to sin.

So for the good of all gamers we should unite as one to fight this impeding evil!!!

This... but I bet it will be so awesome people will be willing to work 3 jobs just to be able to afford one!

@topic : In all seriousness I don't think an apple console would be as big a success as many people think.  Sure apple has the hipster market on lockdown, but a huge portion of their userbase is middle age business men for stuff like iphones and ipads.  You know, the type who aren't interested in gaming...

If apple did enter the industry then i would also support an xbox/playstation coalition...

Nintendo and Apple have a long history of mutual respect and fear.

It would be interesting to see them vie for the same space.

my PC laptop has last 6 years so far haven't formatted. It has been running 24/7 for the last three years with a few reboots here and there whilst i installed updates or software. 

it is all about how to treat your hardware that will determine the life of it. Not a shiny apple on the back lol.