edit: While everyone here seems to disagree, many indie devs have been waiting for this for a while. It will essentially be the biggest indie console market. Ouya was unproven hardware and lackluster adoption. Innovation wise, sure, there's nothing new here in hardware nor software. But in terms of form factor, dev kits, and market, this will be very different.
Does it really? I think the failure of greatly hyped consoles like the Ooya have demonstrated that there isn't actually much of a market for this. Hardcore gamers already have fully-powered systems. Casual gamers don't care about playing on their TV.
I'm looking forward to getting my phone back.
Apple TV brings a different form factor to a marketplace that is already successful, just like the iPad did to the iPhone.
Is that really true though? Seems like an under serviced market to me.
Wii Sports says otherwise.
Not really. The Wii has had this stuff for a long time, and for a more direct comparison, so has the Roku 3. Neither has changed the world, and while Apple has a greater chance of doing so, success is far from assured.
In any case, it wasn't what I was referring to. I'm referring to the idea of bringing the iOS marketplace to the big screen. It's the most adopted marketplace of both users and developers and while there isn't much to show for it now on the Apple TV I think time will bring many options of entertainment.
All the fun things are on PC, not because of hardware, but because of openness of the ecosystem. You just cannot innovate in the self censorship environment of a walled garden.