The iPad is already impressing as a gaming platform. Games such as Need For Speed 2 and Mirror’s Edge are selling well and shared gaming is appearing as a standard feature in suitable games. For instance, there’s a very slick Scrabble application for the iPad, with the extra option of letting everyone keep [...]
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Nintendo’s 3DS 3D upgrade to the DS range is just the kind of development we expected in reply to the arrival of touch tablets. As with the Wii, Nintendo are using novelty and innovation to tap straight into the interest stirred up by 3D movies and the prospect of watching the World Cup [...] To our surprise Apple’s iPad delivers most of the features on our touch tablet ‘wish list’. It’s light, thin, has a 9.7” screen, offers 10 hours of battery life and comes with WiFi as standard. The pricing is equally impressive, as a £310/ $499 entry point for a device that brings together personal, [...] Nintendo recently released statements about being in no rush to produce an upgraded Wii console and a policy of delaying hardware releases until software support is in place. It was also suggested that the next versions of Zelda and Metroid Prime for the Wii would not be arriving any time soon. With [...] We’re suitably impressed by the appearance of a Microsoft tablet with a full screen. (A split screen tablet may yet be on the way from Microsoft). We’re also far from surprised that the first full screen tablets will be expensive and lack certain features, (e.g. touch/ touch and pen is a key consideration [...] |
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