X-Box Killer

"What if Apple created it's own gaming console?" asked one member of the P&P Forum. The following was my answer.

It would be the most stable console gaming system ever and would never need to be maintained. It would also have immediate plug-n-play capabilities and built-in support for iLife. It would also be extremely user-friendly and talk to you if it needed your attention. It would also be contained within its own high-definition LCD screen (with optional stand).

It would be called iBox.

The Apple iBox would be backward compatible with all known console gaming systems; playing everything from X-Box and Playstation 2 titles to Dreamcast and that nasty Atari system everyone's forgotten about. An optional universal plug-n-play device would enable the iBox to read cartridges ranging from 8 to 64bit.

However, everyone except the gaming elite would use the system but they'd swear by it. Then Apple would buy back Bungie and the company would make all of it's games exclusively for iBox. Then just before the genre-breaking Halo 7 is released for iBox, Microsoft buys Bungie back so that it can spend the next three years porting it's once iBox-exclusive game to be playable only on the X-Box 4 as its flagship title.

Then Halo 7 for PC is released eight years later by Gearbox Software, needing the money from poor sales of its fledgling Brothers In Arms 9: The Road To V.F.W. game.

It is 2015 and Bill Gates announces officially that Longhorn will finally be released and George Broussard comes clean and states Duke Nukem Forever was just a joke all along.