[venomsnake]

Well iPad is as close to a console as a device could be. 3 year support, yearly refresh that brings good incremental improvements and probably they will surpass consoles when the cycle moves on - so they will only need a way to stream and controller.

[berntb]

I love my iPads. But where can I get something like Dark Souls for them? The console niche puts more GBytes of graphics etc into a world. You just don't do that for the iPad. Not this year and probably not the next either, anyway. (Edit: Please prove me wrong :-) )

[venomsnake]

I was envisioning the future. But the iPad model is a perfect console - long enough to make sense, short enough to not stall innovation.

Now I cannot predict the future. But we have had amazing games running on way less cpu, gpu and ram - and install base in a way is king. Right now we are in the GameBoy era of the iPad. The games grew with their auditory - if you have demand for quality writing, deep story and mature games - they will show up.