Most gamers seem to go on and on about how companies like Apple should enter the console race. Well they did before, and their Pippin made the Dreamcast look like a success. Everyone seems to forget and if you don't believe me look up Apple Pippin online.

Apple bandai pippin. Lol. I know. It was a big failure. But I have never seen it in my eyes.

Yeah but that was before Apple was "cool". People tend to forget Apple has made some very turd like products, some say they still do.

We didn't forget no matter how hard we tried to.

That controller is awful..

why did you bring that up,everybody must forget!!!!! Now it's in my mind,dam it!!!!!!!!

apple was for geeks.

To the trendy wannabes who support apple these days its liek Apple is a new company thats only been around 10 years.

eh.

Yes because most of us are not as young as you are and no one heard of their Pippin because it flopped.

I bet you just discovered that fact before making the thread lol.

To be honest, even today they would fail. If you think about it, MS has as much money as Apple and when they entered the market they had at least a decade of experience with graphics API because of DirectX. Even with all that, they never managed to win a gen and dominate Sony (a company with financial troubles) and Nintendo (a much smaller company than MS). Other big guys like Phillips and Panasonic failed hard too. It's a harsh market and it can't support more than 3 or 4 guys at the same time.

Taking in account the big IPs the big 3 have, it's probably suicidal to enter in this market (I'm looking at you SteamBox). Despite that, unlike MS, Apple isn't that good in development tools and APIs. The Android SDK is much more robust and the WP SDK is much easier to use.