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Different people have different imaginations. It's human nature to believe that ones personal interests are shared by the entire world, but it never works that way.
I can't imagine anything bigger than Xbox, which is estimated to have sold $12 billion last year. While certainly nothing small, Apple has many businesses that size or larger. In other words, for Apple, a niche business.
The chances that Apple could introduce a gaming product and have it immediately and widely accepted by a gaming community already well-invested in other platforms seem small, so that gaming platform would start out much smaller than $12 billion and may or may not grow, depending on whether Apple delivers something gamers love.
As to gaming PCs in particular? Consider how PC gamers like to modify/upgrade their hardware. What are the chances Apple would produce computers suited to that kind of tinkering?
If Apple were to enter the gaming hardware business, I'd imagine they wouldn't do something conventional at all - an entirely brand-new approach that would allow them to dominate rather than simply compete. Perhaps the VR/AR field, which still is relatively underdeveloped. Still, Apple would have to do its "usual" in that regard - deliver something so polished and "complete" that existing goggles/glasses products are left in the dust. Maybe they can do it, maybe not. That remains to be (quite literally) seen.
And then again, maybe Apple is as much of a gaming company as they want to be. After all, they've boasted that iOS is the world's biggest gaming platform. It may not be the kind of cutting-edge gaming gamers consider to be "gaming," but there's an awful lot of App Store revenue brought in by games.
I can't imagine anything bigger than Xbox, which is estimated to have sold $12 billion last year. While certainly nothing small, Apple has many businesses that size or larger. In other words, for Apple, a niche business.
The chances that Apple could introduce a gaming product and have it immediately and widely accepted by a gaming community already well-invested in other platforms seem small, so that gaming platform would start out much smaller than $12 billion and may or may not grow, depending on whether Apple delivers something gamers love.
As to gaming PCs in particular? Consider how PC gamers like to modify/upgrade their hardware. What are the chances Apple would produce computers suited to that kind of tinkering?
If Apple were to enter the gaming hardware business, I'd imagine they wouldn't do something conventional at all - an entirely brand-new approach that would allow them to dominate rather than simply compete. Perhaps the VR/AR field, which still is relatively underdeveloped. Still, Apple would have to do its "usual" in that regard - deliver something so polished and "complete" that existing goggles/glasses products are left in the dust. Maybe they can do it, maybe not. That remains to be (quite literally) seen.
And then again, maybe Apple is as much of a gaming company as they want to be. After all, they've boasted that iOS is the world's biggest gaming platform. It may not be the kind of cutting-edge gaming gamers consider to be "gaming," but there's an awful lot of App Store revenue brought in by games.
