Logitech guaranteed that they'll be updating to the 3.x based GoogleTV when it releases.

Developers will soon be able to write apps (including games) for GoogleTV.

Wiimotes are already fully functional with 3.x based tablets for gaming.

... anyone else see where I'm going with this? If Google plays their cards right, and some very good hardware comes out for commodity prices, I think we're looking at the birth of the new breed of gaming consoles. With the so-called "casual" gaming market exploding at the pace it is, there's great potential here.

The graphics are already getting close to PS3 and Xbox360, and are already better than Wii, with the new high-end ARM chips. If their partners manage to sell set top boxes for $99, they could turn Google TV into a very popular console platform. The new Google TV software already has support for gamepads, so hopefully they've been considering this for a while.

I just hope they don't do the same as they did with the Motorola Xoom launch, and not get enough game developers on board for the "re-launch" of Google TV this year. They really need to become much more aggressive in getting 3rd party developers on board with their new platforms, such as Honeycomb, Google TV, and Chrome OS.

It's really surprising how they seem to not care much about this with all those platform launches. Have they learned nothing from Apple, and even Microsoft? The iPhone had 500 apps from day one when the App Store launched. The iPad had over 1000 (or was it 2000?) on the launch day. WP7 also had 2000 apps on launch day. Honeycomb? 12...Come on! They need to treat 3rd party apps more seriously, regardless of how much it costs them to do that. The availability of apps can make or break their new platform.

Also, they need to get rid of the full keyboard idea for interacting with a Google TV. That will never work. Better focus on making apps for phones and tablets that maybe will show directly what's on Google TV, and you can access them just by touching the UI elements. They could also take advantage of voice commands and maybe Kinect-like moves. I just want to see the full QWERTY keyboard go.

GoogleTV is a platform being used in TVs, right now Sony is the only manufacturer thats using it however. Most of the large manufacturers (LG/Samsung) however have their own platforms they're deploying. They might go the GoogleTV route on their high end devices but they generally don't like the GoogleTV product because it has a built in browser which completely breaks the walled gardens they're trying to create. Note most content programmers are blocking GoogleTV devices on their sites as well.

On the Set-Top-Box front (I'm assuming you mean cable and satellite boxes). This is sticky. Google actually just picked up a very large share of this market with their Mototola purchase. And undoubtedly they will try to get Android into many of those boxes. However they're going to be competing with an industry standard Java stack (Tru2way/OCAP) which was designed from the ground up as a Cable stack. And again a lot of the features offered in the google tv product (which is much more then just the Android OS) competes with the cable operators offerings. I think you may see a pared down version with some smaller operators but unlikely the full GoogleTV stack.

I don't doubt that the GoogleTV device may turn into a casual gaming system, but right outside of those fire sale Revues they need to be sold at a price very close to a PS3 or Xbox,and I'm not sure why you'd get a Revue over one of those.

Stay tuned, if this project doesn't get killed it may end up closer to what you are envisioning.