New Year predictions are always fun to read, and Joystiq has picked up on a good one from the blogosphere.It concerns one blogger's prediction that Steve Jobs will make a move into the games industry with the Mac Mini in 2006.
The prediction is based on the idea of Apple positioning the Mini as an all-in-one digital multimedia hub; the magic ingredient that would push it into Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo's turf would be the inclusion of a top graphics card in an updated Mini, that would attract games developers fairly easily:
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.
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