Sony and Nintendo were both a little too quick to dismiss the iPad as "a bigger iPod touch" that offered "no surprises" (Nintendo CEO, Satoru Iwata) and (in an incredible display of disingenuity from PlayStation marketing man John Koller) as "a net positive for Sony [because] when people want a deeper, richer console, they start playing on a PSP. So are other games developers getting as excited as we are about the possibilities that the bigger multi-touch screens on the iPad and the Asus Eee Pad and other such devices might open up for interactive entertainment? This is where Apple has a big advantage because it can provide a guaranteed market and a wide user-base for developers making games and applications for the iPad and its other devices. The Unity man sees the Apple iPad launch as nothing less than "the launch of a new console" and celebrates the fact that Apple gets the whole "make life sweet for developers" thing because "the hoops you have to go through to develop, publish and get paid are crazy low. So in the short term I wouldn’t expect any great graphics for games on the ipad until specially made apps are available for the ipad. read more
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