Who should make a new console next ?

Who do you think could make a new console and have it compete with sony,microsoft and nintendo ?

SNK should make a new console and have only metal slug games 

Sega.

Google is the only one I could see doing this, only because they want to dominate everything. i was gonna say Apple, but they aren't very supportive of gaming from what I've seen.

i would say the next would be apple. yeah, they were be good to make one. i would expect them to make a new console like every 2 years of the same thing.

Will and Norm.

Didn't someone at EA a few years back talk about possibly making a console? 
 
Anyway, I think Apple is obvious answer. Although I really don't think there's enough room a fourth.

Activision Blizzard.

Kessler K-game Konsole

Apple already makes consoles, they're called computers. You're probably using one right now.

Yeah I think the only Apple is going to get into the home console market is if they sell you something else, like the next rumored version of the AppleTV, that has the ability to run apps (and therefore games). Kind of like the way they sell you a phone that plays games. The game playing isn't sold as its primary function but just like on the iPhone it could take off.  
 
Ugh and so many people are going to post about the Pippin.

Apple perhaps but it won't happen, at least not in the next few years.

Whoever wants too.

Sega

I don't think anyone besides Microsoft and Sony has the dev toolchain and clout at this point to produce a piece of hardware and software delivery channel that can compete.  Nintendo is just hanging on by their handheld sales.  I don't see them doing too well as consoles get more complicated and powerful.
 
What I would like to see is a shift towards a more open platform in the next batch of consoles.  That's directly opposite of the current trend in computing though.  Lock it down, lock em in, protect the revenue stream, and jack up the prices.  I don't think Microsoft and the game publishers will be happy until you pay every time you hit the power button.

From the back of my mind, the only real new competitor that can jump into the console war is Apple, but as someone else said about their support for games, its probably not likely. They've also tried making the Pippin and that... that thing is almost unheard of, it was that much of a failure. Seeing how we're getting all of this motion control technology, I can see Apple jumping in smoothly since they're all about "innovation" and being new and shit. 
 
Someone else mentioned Google and I haven't considered that yet. Its sounds like a mismatch, but hey, Google is awesome. If they begin to export their 1 gigabit network; they could hold a monopoly on that technology in the United States and use it for their console. You know how much possibility there would be for a console like that?

Sega seemed pretty good at it.

" I don't think anyone besides Microsoft and Sony has the dev toolchain and clout at this point to produce a piece of hardware and software delivery channel that can compete.  Nintendo is just hanging on by their handheld sales. "

Maybe a company like Dell or Samsung.

I don't know what newcomers could make a competitive console- but out of the big three, Nintendo need to release a new one soon, because it's gonna be really weird when their handheld is more expensive than their console.

" I don't know what newcomers could make a competitive console- but out of the big three, Nintendo need to release a new one soon, because it's gonna be really weird when their handheld is more expensive than their console. "

Apple is the only company that comes to mind that could actually pull it off.
 
Other than that, maaaaaaaaybe Valve?

" @TooWalrus said:

" I don't know what newcomers could make a competitive console- but out of the big three, Nintendo need to release a new one soon, because it's gonna be really weird when their handheld is more expensive than their console. "

I'm pretty sure the DSi XL was more expensive than the Wii when it released. "

Well, OnLive is out there right now. I suspect that will gain some momentum somewhere along the line - or another company will make something similar that works in a more efficient manner.

Hostess.  That console would be delicious!

Apple, and the console will suck.

wait...hang on...werent apple computer those computers that couldn't play video games?

" Google is the only one I could see doing this, only because they want to dominate everything. i was gonna say Apple, but they aren't very supportive of gaming from what I've seen. "

" Apple, and the console will suck. "

Activision

I doubt a 4th console could survive.

" @Axxol said:

" Apple, and the console will suck. "

Ah. Only a bitter PC user would say such a thing. But your opinion is adorable, if totally troll-like. "

It would have to be a joint project between Giant Bomb and Tested.

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" @Axxol said:

" Apple, and the console will suck. "

Ah. Only a bitter PC user would say such a thing. But your opinion is adorable, if totally troll-like. "

Not a troll, just stating my opinion. "

" It would have to be a joint project between Giant Bomb and Tested. "

" @Axxol said:

" @sofacitysweetheart said:

" @Axxol said:

" Apple, and the console will suck. "

Ah. Only a bitter PC user would say such a thing. But your opinion is adorable, if totally troll-like. "

Not a troll, just stating my opinion. "

I can dig opinions. But that statement just sounds like something to annoy Apple users. But whatever. 
 
  @Gamer_152 said:

" It would have to be a joint project between Giant Bomb and Tested. "

Using Kinnect, Rock Band and iPad parts :D "

" @Axxol: Somehow you're not convincing me with your fragmented responses. "

An Apple console would be pretty awesome. 

I think Dell could make a console or a portable, or maybe some new company starts something like onlive but markets it a better way instead of "well its out, hope you like it"

Really any large tech company could make a console (Samsung, etc.). It's not that companies can't it's just a saturated market.

Why would anyone want another console? No one should make a console next. I think we should drop it down to one or two consoles next generation so we aren't as fucked over by shady deals resulting in exclusives for a system you might not have because that particular greedy piece of shit corporation wanted it more.  
 
A console is just a fucking box that plays games. It has no inherent entertainment value. In a perfect world there'd just be games, and all the necessary evils required to play them (which console manufacturers and publishers are) can go to fucking hell.  
 
Fanboyism over consoles makes me nauseaus. Support the creative people actually making games instead of praising the fat bastards that are just out to take your money. 

Atari.  With a classy wood grain finish.

Steam is almost its own platform already, but can't see it evolving into something else.

wouldn't mind apple having a crack