Nope not a good idea (Score 1)

Apple as they are currently have no hope of succeeding in the console marketplace. The thing to understand and what's being ignored is that any console machine NEEDS a steady supply of games software to have any hope of succeeding (at least half a dozen games a month). This steady supply has to represent as many genres as possible, be of mostly solid quality with regular standouts and at least one killer app per year (during the holiday season). No game hardware company can provide this quantity and quality of software on its own (only N64 era Nintendo came close), and as such it is the third party game developers that are the true kingmakers in the industry. It is the EAs, the Ubisofts, the Capcoms, the Konamis, the Epics, the Bungies, the Rares, and Square-Enixes of the world that determine how well console hardware sells in comparision to its competitors, not the hardware company itself. Apple would have to learn not only how to play nice with these guys but beg for their support and Apple has never struck me as a company that plays well with partners. I hesitate to think how they would handle being so dependant on outside software developers. The games are always the most important thing and I don't know where Apple would get that supply.