OPINION: Apple returning to the Bad Days? Why an Apple games console would be a disaster

apple-pippin-games-machine.jpgThe latest HOT APPLE RUMOUR doing the rounds (ie, getting endlessly reposted on every blog under the sun), is that the fashionable computer giant might be planning to enter the gaming world to compete with Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo.

Patents would appear to show that show Apple is planning to up its gaming offering, perhaps even launching a separate standalone home games machine or handheld rather than just shovelling a few Tetris clones onto iPhone…