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Busted on 11 September 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Busted said:
Nothing would happen, why would that change anything? just that now you could connect your ipad to your tv. If this is a serious question i think it's pointless. :/


You seriously think that turning 300 million iDevices into home consoles wouldnt have any effect...?

Turning 300 million idevices into wha...? You never mentioned that, you said connect you ipad/iphone to your tv, that doesn't make it a home console you know... and there are already game controllers for ipad/iphone.



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Busted on 11 September 2012
man-bear-pig said:
Busted said:
Nothing would happen, why would that change anything? just that now you could connect your ipad to your tv. If this is a serious question i think it's pointless. :/


You seriously think that turning 300 million iDevices into home consoles wouldnt have any effect...?

Turning 300 million idevices into wha...? You never mentioned that, you said connect you ipad/iphone to your tv, that doesn't make it a home console you know... and there are already game controllers for ipad/iphone. What could happen is that companies start making some games for it to make more money, cool, good, but that would not change the world as we know it. you get me :) ?



crissindahouse on 11 September 2012

then we would have the first "1,000€ console"

600€ for the phone or tablet or something like that and the rest for the controller. because the controller would have some super important innovative world changing voice command feature no one really needs.



Jay520 on 11 September 2012

I don't see the need to connect to a TV unless you're looking for a deep, long gaming session. I thought most agreed that iPad users mainly played for short bursts. I can't think of any popular iPad games I'd want to play on a television anyway.



Jay520 on 11 September 2012
kowenicki said:

oh for pity sake... are people in the thread being purposelty obtuse.

 

The point being made is that the ipad can become a console overnight.

Connect to TV via HDMI (already can be done - I know this because I do it - HDMI)

Next step is to allow users to have a generic or bespoke controller (Apple clearly thinking this way as they have patented the idea)

Developers would be all over it, if you think they wont then fine.... but I disagree.


Calm your tits.

Just trying to assess how big this would actually be



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Busted on 11 September 2012
kowenicki said:
Busted said:
man-bear-pig said:
Busted said:
Nothing would happen, why would that change anything? just that now you could connect your ipad to your tv. If this is a serious question i think it's pointless. :/


You seriously think that turning 300 million iDevices into home consoles wouldnt have any effect...?

Turning 300 million idevices into wha...? You never mentioned that, you said connect you ipad/iphone to your tv, that doesn't make it a home console you know... and there are already game controllers for ipad/iphone.

There is?   there is a suction thing which is shit and a mock mini arcade console.

People need to wise up, the onyl thing stopping more expansive gaming , i.e. a full console experience, hitting the ipad (or any tablet),  is control.

Pretty sure the ipad 2 is much more powerful than a PS2.

Yup there are some controllers, that hasn't changed anything... if it could connect to tv, it wouln't change anything just because the bussines models for these kind of devices and videogame consoles are totally different, a company wouldn bring his ''AAA Super Awesome MultiMillion dollar game'' to the appstore for $10, I (and im sure a lot of people) wouldn't buy a $700 gaming console that will meet his next generation in 1 year, EVEN if it has indie $1 games and ''compelling $7 experiences'' brought by some very good devs (that are 4 hours long), i think that would destroy the video game bussines, and big the companies know this, they use the appstore and playstore to gain some easy money (who doesn't like that?) but they know it... To be fair, when 1 appstore game makes $1.000.000.000 in 2 weeks, you can call me and rub it in my face -- I also understand your point of ''expand gaming'' but you believe that an ipad can offer a more compeling experience than the 360? the DS? 3DS? who knows what posibilities the Wii U holds? i think an Ipad how it is now cannot help to ''expand gaming''. Im not closed to new things i just genuinely believe that a tablet offers nothing, at least nothing that an existent device can not already do... or surpass.



Busted on 11 September 2012
kowenicki said:
Busted said:
kowenicki said:
Busted said:
man-bear-pig said:
Busted said:
Nothing would happen, why would that change anything? just that now you could connect your ipad to your tv. If this is a serious question i think it's pointless. :/


You seriously think that turning 300 million iDevices into home consoles wouldnt have any effect...?

Turning 300 million idevices into wha...? You never mentioned that, you said connect you ipad/iphone to your tv, that doesn't make it a home console you know... and there are already game controllers for ipad/iphone.

There is?   there is a suction thing which is shit and a mock mini arcade console.

People need to wise up, the onyl thing stopping more expansive gaming , i.e. a full console experience, hitting the ipad (or any tablet),  is control.

Pretty sure the ipad 2 is much more powerful than a PS2.

Yup there are some controllers, that hasn't changed anything... if it could connect to tv, it wouln't change anything just because the bussines models for these kind of devices and videogame consoles are totally different, a company wouldn bring his ''AAA Super Awesome MultiMillion dollar game'' to the appstore for $10, I (and im sure a lot of people) wouldn't buy a $700 gaming console that will meet his next generation in 1 year, EVEN if it has indie $1 games and ''compelling $7 experiences'' brought by some very good devs (that are 4 hours long), i think that would destroy the video game bussines, and big the companies know this, they use the appstore and playstore to gain some easy money (who doesn't like that?) but they know it... To be fair, when 1 appstore game makes $1.000.000.000 in 2 weeks, you can call me and rub it in my face -- I also understand your point of ''expand gaming'' but you believe that an ipad can offer a more compeling experience than the 360? the DS? 3DS? who knows what posibilities the Wii U holds? i think an Ipad how it is now cannot help to ''expand gaming''. Im not closed to new things i just genuinely believe that a tablet offers nothing, at least nothing that an existent device can not already do... or surpass.


Can you link me to these proper controllers. I'd like one.


I don't know man... :S  for the iphone i know i've seen similar things to the Bladepad already, look them up on amazon or something like that, and there are guys in youtube like this. I don't know a lot about these i just know i've seen them :)



oldschoolfool on 13 September 2012

what so I can play games like tetris and angry birds on the big screen. Oh wait,I can already do that.