March 13th, 2012
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Apple’s recent announcement of the iPad 3 has some companies thinking the device just may be the future of game consoles. In an interview with Reuters, Epic Games president Mike Capps had this to say about Apple and the iPad;
“Apple is definitely building their devices as if they care a lot about ‘triple-A’ games. It is quite easy to imagine a world where an iPad is more powerful than a home console, where it wirelessly talks to your TV and wirelessly talks to your controller and becomes your new console.”
Electronic Arts is reportedly eyeing Apple’s moves closely. President of EA Frank Gibeau had this to say;
“When the iPad gets to the processing power that’s equal to an Xbox 360 and it connects to a television, that’s no big deal to us. We’ll put the game through the iPad and have it display through the television.”
Finally, Kristoffer Waardahl of Crytek (who will be releasing their first iPad title this spring) said, “As more people come to these platforms, we have to follow our fans,”
Apple announced that the iPad 3′s A5X system-on-chip would be sporting a quad-core graphics processor, allowing for much improved graphics on the device. Now, the iPad brand is definitely incredible, but replacing consoles? We’re not so sure. Give us your thoughts on this one below.
Source: Reuters
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I dont think it will really compete with home consoles but handhelds are another story.
Although, even with the recent ipad revision, it’s still not as powerful as Sony’s PS Vita.
The above scenarios would effectively make a tablet a “console” with a refresh rate of say, 2 to 3 years. At that point I would likely just go full on PC. I’m also thinking Sony would like to integrate the Vita as an optional controller next year for the PS4.
I would seriously be done with gaming if there was no controller. I don’t want to hold a screen to play a game. I hope the ipad just stays a neat little tablet thingy.
Yes, the best hardware around to play the next 50 installments of Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja. That’s way more enticing than the likes of Uncharted or Starhawk. You know… ACTUAL games. My sister in law has an Ipad 2 and the only game they play on it is Bejeweled. This whole Ipad vs PS and Xbox is just plain stupid. Ipads could reach the power of 100 Atom Bombs, and actual gamers simply won’t care. Gamers play games with a controller. Simple as that.
I think the iPad will never emulate the experience of playing games with physical buttons. Games will never have the story, gameplay, and content on a ipad IMO. However, not seeing the ipad as an influence to the mobile gaming market just because it doesn’t have any hardware buttons is downright delusional.
The ipad and iphone will most certainty grab a good chuck of the market simply because of the nature of their games. Games that are easy to pick up and fun to play for a short period. This is very appealing to the casual audience because they are easy to play and cheap to buy.
This is only good for games you fined on facebook like Dial pointed out!Angry birds and simple games like that lol;]so without a controler it would be complete crap in my view,and if it did have a controler then it would be a console lol”so i realy dont know where ea and epic are going with this,maybe some of these guys have been smokeing to much pot or something and cant be bothered to pick up a controle pad?i dont know”Anyway sounds silly if you ask me a total fail lol.
EA said, “When the iPad gets to the processing power that’s equal to an Xbox 360 and it connects to a television, that’s no big deal to us. We’ll put the game through the iPad and have it display through the television.”
Is it really that easy to do ?
Oh no’s my consoles have some competition. NOT LOOKING FORWARD TO tablet PORTS!