Mark Rein: iPad Will Be the Shizzle

i can see point and click adventure games being pretty cool on the *snicker* ipad, but twitch shooters? baaaahhhhhhh.

i'm still waiting to find a touchpad based device that doesn't have awkward controls....

but what about those of us who listen to music while playing FPS? or do the ol' Alt-Tab to browse the web? guess not.... ipad isn't the shizzle.

The iPad games will be pirated and Mark Rein will say that iPad is not good for games.

Let me see... iPad is the only device with an amazing IPS LCD panel with LED backlit to watch movies, play games and read books and magazines (and it is multi-touch). It has the best responsiveness by far and everything runs smooth and very fast. It´s user interface is also very intuitive and easy to use, and it is very light. Battery time is very good. So there is no reason to buy a kindle if you can have internet, games, music, video, books, magazines, word processor and much more in a very well optimized device.

you are correct!

but only one at a time.

That's a pretty good example of how the iPad really may be different than the iPhone/touch, as he stated that he would never dev for the latter, but will definitely dev for the former.

Your assumptions are showing there buddy.

I read a lot of books and can spend hours a day reading. And there are several reasons why that experience would be better on the Kindle.
A. the kindle is smaller and lighter. Holding a heavy devices gets old after several hours. The Kindle is very light.
B. The screen. The Kindle's screen is not back-lit and does not have a refresh rate, and is easier on the eyes. Reading a backlit, flickering screen all day causes eye fatigue. The Kindle is more like reading a paper book as the page only refreshes when you change pages.
C. The Kindle uses little power and does not get hot. I don't like holding a hot laptop or whatever, it isn't comfortable after a while. The Kindle never gets warm and uses very little power. I don't even recharge mine once a week.

The Kindle won't play videos, and children's books probably won't look good; so if that is important to you then get a tablet.

For reading books, I don't think that the iPad will be able to compare to a Kindle favorably.

Any games should works on a low resolution. iPad is a low resolution screen without control.
I just try to imagine play to a shooter with one hand on the touch screen (for the mouse pointer) and one hand on the keyboard.
This look totally foolish...

Playing PSP or DS and you'll have more control than a iPad. So why push the iPad gaming capability ?

iPad is not a console, it's not a computer... it's just a low resolution multimedia pad (without multi-tasking, hdmi, usb and sd reader).
I don't even imagine someone take this at school for take note.
Come on Apple your pad really su*k*.

$600 for a portable gaming rig that can only do 1 thing at a time?
get a real computer! that can play Unreal Engine 3 Games. I hope they look at sales before they start investing time and money into this thing.

iPad = iFail

Where's the multi-tasking and 3G voice?

Whoopty do Basil, what's it all mean?!

Much rather have multi-tasking and 3G voice!

Can it run Crysis?

iPad will take a shizzle.

Games on touch devices are a joke. Always have been.

I hadn't really thought about the iPad as a gaming device until I had read this and I'm a bit intrigued now.

I see a clear problem with first person shooters but that can probably be solved with third party attachable controllers. RTS, Adventure, platformers, RPG, sports, driving, etc all lend themselves well to touch based controls.

Imagine Starcraft (original) on this thing. It has the horsepower. Awesome.

Yeah, get a real computer, so you can watch movies, play games and read books and magazines, and listen to music, surf the web, ALL at the SAME time.

Because people do that all the time. I don't know how we'd live if we didn't do 10 things all at once.

For the price of this thing I can get my hands on Alienwares new gaming netbook. Sure the battery life would suck but, with the awkward controls touchscreens have who could really game on one of these things for longer than an hour? You would end up looking like you had ulnar nerve paralysis. Not to mention you could not have have voice communication in game.

LCD screens do not technically have a refresh rate. That is not what causes eye strain on them. The last flickering screens were CRTs.
But yes kindle is easier on the eyes.

The other thing is a touch screen, which will be covered with finger smudges which will make reading irritating as hell unless you wipe it all the time.

I'm sorry but can't people see over the fact that it is just a slat??
others will have their own soon with better Windows 7 and Flash support and much more...

by the way who is Mark Rein??? i don't know... but i know that if I had the choice of the ipad and N900... i would surely go for the N900...

and what's up with all the apple news??? i thought we will all have some piece of mind after January 27th but no... it just keeps coming...

there... I feel lighter now...

Epic give nearly as much of a hard sell as Apple, also, they would only be interested in the tech, not the interface...

you could put a tegra 2 in a food blender and they would try and sell it as a gaming platform with their engine...

There's been entirely too much hype. The general public may or may not go for it.

Or have anti-virus and a torrent/download manager running in the background while you type out your work whilst listening to music.

No, I can't think of anyone who would use their computer like that...