(Plus, the ATV is cheap enough to upgrade in its entirety every few years. The 'Mac Mini as extensible console' ecosystem-even if pushed really hard-would just encourage people to buy controllers: not nearly as much of a money-faucet, especially given that you aren't walking around with your controller all day noticing that you could buy other apps for it. It makes sense to want to encourage gaming on iOS (which is really an OS for personal computers, in the sense that everyone has their own-meaning that four players use four iOS devices to play), and tvOS has fancy frameworks to couple tvOS apps to iOS apps, encouraging that thinking even more. They've stopped calling the Apple TV a 'hobby', because it's now 'how you play iOS games on a TV'-which is an important thing, given the size of the iOS gaming ecosystem. It really looks like they're going all-in on mobile gaming instead. I'm not sure Apple wants to touch PC (Mac) gaming right now.
