The M4 Mac mini could be the device that helps Apple master the living room and offer its own games console to take on the PlayStation and the Xbox.
Apple has been attempting to crack the gaming market for several years through a series of different ideas, but none of these have enabled Apple to knock companies like Sony and Microsoft off their lofty perches.
The Mac mini offers a lot of compelling reasons for becoming your next games console of choice.
The Mac mini's shrunken-down design makes it far smaller than both Sony and Microsoft's consoles and the perfect size for living room gaming.
Apple's M4 chip offers Dynamic Caching, hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shading, making it an ideal machine for console-style gaming.
The macOS games library is a long way behind what its rivals can offer, and developers don't see macOS in the same light as Windows, the PlayStation or the Xbox.
If Apple can improve the games themselves, it might finally find a way to entice console gamers onto a new platform.
Apple has laid the groundwork with the Game Porting Toolkit and seeing other popular games make the jump could help convince more developers to bring their games to the Mac.
Apple isn't positioning the M4 Mac mini as a games console per se, but perhaps it should remind gamers about everything this little machine has going for it.
If it takes off, Apple will have the perfect console rival in the form of the Mac mini.