I've gotta say while Infinity Blade looks great it definitely is not the same experience Epic could have produced on PS3. When I say memory I am talking largely hard drive. A Xbox with a 500gig hard drive would enable it to actually carry games. With the I-pad how many full games could it carry? Many games could be 50-gigs each if they are high end next generation titles. I doubt I-pad 6 could carry more then four or five games best case scenerio. Now you can say store on Cloud and stream won't work as well. You need to have constant internet access and it will go through bandwidth like theirs no tomorrow.
Then their is a price within two years console hardware will be more affordable then the latest iOS device. Consumers will have very little incentive to go with an I-pad as the primary gaming device if they acquire one for gaming chances are they will already have a console.
Not to mention as said earlier. It will take a few years for I-pad to catch up if it can and when it does how many I-pad owners will have the latest I-pad capable of playing Epics latest game? Market share will be to small for full blown high quality console titles to come to I-pad.
In the end their will always be a market for high quality big budget console games. I-pad is incapable of out performing the consoles in that aspect.
Nintendo realized last generation that future proofing is not necessary. Consumers will buy their hardware as long as they have the software to support it. Microsoft realized they don't need to be ground breaking bleeding edge. 360 was great but certainly not future proof in the aspect it would remain bleeding edge a whole generation. PS3 which was bleeding edge reached its full potential in 2010 I believe according to EA and other publishers who had begun saying they had reached the hardware limitations.
Fact is going with some killer specs that is a bit better then what can be done on PC today is enough. EA has made statements that the WiiU is capable of running their latest games that is enough for me. Next Box is supposed to be 6x the power of PS3 we are good.
No need for 10x the power. I was satisfied with my 360 this generation barely ever used my cutting edge PS3. Heck Wii still got tons of play due to its software alone.
Real gamers care more about the software, even cutting edge visuals come second to good game play.
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
