Apple

[Grieve]

Wow, its got more memory and higher resolution than a device that came out in 2005. And you can have all that gaming power on a tiny device with a touch screen interface. (Unless you are seriously going to try to sell the idea that gaming companys are going to start making real games that they wirelessly download to the tablet with shitty storage capacity so you can stream it on airplay.)

Truly the future of gaming.

No, like I said in other threads on this, I don't think "serious" gamers (Purge folks) will be moving to the iPad, at least not anytime soon. But I think it could capture a big portion of non-hardcore gamers (a much larger pool). The people that currently use the Wii, or the DS, or the Gamepad, and so on.

I do think even serious consoles could be in trouble longer term. As you said, the current consoles have been around since 2005. There's a new iPad out every year, with better and better specs. Do you see a problem there? I don't even think the 55" TV is a big differentiator, because the iPad is much closer to your eyes, and has more resolution. Soon there's going to be mainstream "gaming glasses" as well - Google is about to come out with something along those lines.

Size of the game download doesn't matter as much as internet speeds get faster - you can leave the majority of the game on "the cloud". Anyway, the largest iPad has 64GB of flash storage. Original Xbox 360 had what, 20GB?

Seriously though, how big is 4g (for tablets)? What percentage of ipads sold are mobile enabled? Everyone I know with an iPad just bought a wifi enabled one. Why would you want another phone data subscription for a device whose only real purpose is on the shitter where you already have wifi? (This also brings up the question of the value of the camera, but I dont know what people want to do with there shitter device).

This is going to be a big business use thing. Tablets are taking off in the workplace really fast. I agree for home use, wifi is fine most of the time.

Actually I think the big news for apple sales will be lowering the ipad 2 to 399 for the base model. The ipad 3 is about the poster child for incremental upgrade, but a 400 buck ipad 2 should sell quite well, just not sure what the profit margin is at that point'?

I agree, that's pretty big. Apple is also selling a refurbished iPad 2 for 350 bucks. Strong rumors they are putting out a n 8" "mini-iPad" later this year as well to fend off the Amazon Fire.

A lot of people seem to be saying the iPad 3 is incremental - don't really understand that. 4X the resolution, 4X the speed, 4G, etc...that seems like a bigger ugprade than iPad 2 was from iPad 1. I'm not really sure what Apple could have added that would have been considered non-incremental (maybe the haptic screen...). Siri was missing, but a software upgrade can easily change that.