Bloggers Speculate About Apple Game Console Possiblity

Posted on January 3, 2006

Joystiq has a post that highlights some debate in the blogosphere about speculation that Apple might debut a gaming console out of a Mac mini relaunch.

What happens when Apple speculation and video game speculation meet: platform wars of biblical proportions! Under speculation here is whether or not Apple has any interest in reentering the console gaming arena with the expected relaunch of their diminutive Mac mini.

Apple in the News predicted this in a post made near the end of December:

Even more importantly, the mac mini has enough software and computational power to do much more than this: it can also advance over the game market, a market that Microsoft is trying so fiercely to conquer. With a new mac mini including a killer graphics board, Apple could relatively easily attract a large number of game producing companies. By doing this, Apple would be integrating into one product the chief technologies of home entertainment: video, music, and games.

Several other posts are linking to the Apple in the News prediction. Apple would be missing out if they don't eventually enter the game industry but it might find a way to use its successful iPod brand to do it and not the mac. Game sales slumped in December but the game industry obviously has enormous potential.

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