No Apple, No Games: Many Problems for CES

So CES 2011 has come and gone for another year. Whether you wanted to find mice shaped like Ford Mustangs or wanted a Michael Jackson impersonator to give you a free iPhone case or anything in between, the Consumer Electronics Show was your bag. But there were a few glaring omissions from this and pretty much every CES that there's been in recent years. Two of the biggest entities in consumer electronics, Apple and pretty much the entire video game industry, were absent once again from this year's show. So is CES a fraud and overblown or can it live on in all its obscure glory without these groups?