The iPad cometh

New comic is up.

Disappointments about iPhone games not being as great as they could be, actually make more sense to me now. The problem really is the size. You whip out your iPhone when you have a spare few minutes, not when you want to really play. iPhone is great for bite sized interactive morsels. Bigger games just don’t work so well.

The iPad will change that. Touch screen games can be really cool but the touch screens we’ve had so far (DS and smart phones) are just too wee to really give you any space to play properly. Imagine Dragon Age on iPad. That would be sweet.

IPad, if not this generation then the next, will be fairly competent at 3D. It’s a serious platform and I can’t wait to see if the console game development community dives in as they have failed to do with the iPhone.

If they do, then it will mean a serious shakeup of the games industry. With no gamestop to strong-arm the pricing, iTunes is a space where developers can finally be the king. Publishers won’t be publishers anymore, they will be funders... might as well just get venture capital backing instead.

I just wonder how long the battery will last under heavy 3D gaming. Time will tell.

Tags: IPhone, IPad, games