I read a blog post recently, that got me TOTALLY excited about the prospect of an AppleTV - https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/55ee7b652450db710180a79b
The TL;DR is that if Apple made your iOS device the controller for the game on the TV, that changes everything.
Imagine that...game developers can design and program controllers for their games. That may be a bit confusing for some, and there may be some standardization that is needed....but just the idea blew my mind.
Imagine a game where I can play with my 3 kids. But, the controls for my 2-year old (on my iPad) are different than the controls for my 5-year old (on my iPod) which are different than the controls for my 7-year old (another iPad) and myself (an iPhone).
But we all experience the game fully, relatively easily, in our own way.
Oh man....that got me so excited....alas...that was not meant to be.
One can only hope that it comes in the future...because that would most definitely unlock a whole new generation of casual gamers that no console could dream of unlocking.