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Yea.. the iPad has been out for a few months and I never did a review on it.. so here are some of my thoughts 
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RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters Life!) – Apple’s iPad tablet computer hasn’t been out a week yet but there are already over 830 video games that have been developed to suit the large format, high definition, multi-touch screen.
That number doesn’t even include the nearly 25,000 iPod Touch and iPhone games that will also play on Apple’s latest gadget which is a mix between a smartphone and a laptop but also clearly aims to cater for the growing numbers of gamers.
“The iPad is the fourth step in the gaming evolution,” said Gonzague de Vallois, senior vice president of publishing at Gameloft.
“The first being the microcomputer, the second being the game console and the third being smartphones. Each of these platforms revolutionized gaming in its own way.”
Apple has already sold over 500,000 iPads and Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty forecasts the tech giant will ship 8 to 10 million iPads this year worldwide.
“Can the iPad sell 5 million devices in the first year without games and apps? Probably,” said Kevin A. Wood, vice president and senior analyst of Technology Market Insights at research firm Infogroup/ORC.
“However, Apple’s ability to re-define this space of the computing world will be dependent on its ability to sustain excitement. Apps and games redefined what a smartphone was and what it could be used for, and we suspect that will be the same situation for the iPad.”
Peter Farago, vice president of marketing for research firm Flurry, said just over a third of the 2,300 plus apps currently available for iPad on iTunes.com are games, with entertainment apps ranking a distant second with 14 percent.
GAMING ON THE GO
He believes that games percentage will rise as Apple sells more hardware and attracts more game makers.
“I think people are going to be blown away by iPad when they actually have the opportunity to interact with it,” said Neil Young, founder and CEO of the largest iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad game developer, ngmoco.
“When you play games on the large format, multi-touch fields using two hands it’s much more ‘Minority Report’ than even the iPhone is.”
With seven iPad games available at launch, ngmoco is taking advantage of the multi-touch screen by allowing players of games like “Godfinger” and “We Rule” to multitask by literally sliding small game windows aside so they can focus on the bigger playing field and then read the story progression or check out friends’ castles in between.
Johnny Coghlan, head of publishing for Chillingo, which has 14 iPad games available, said the Wi-Fi and 3G capabilities allows for all of its games, including “Super Shock Football HD” and puzzle game “Quantz HD,” to incorporate Crystal integration. This is the company’s social gaming network that enables players to compete against one another and tout high scores.
With its large screen, game makers can offer multiplayer options on a single iPad.
Firemint’s “Flight Control HD” offers split-screen competitive and cooperative gameplay for two players to successfully land a never-ending stream of planes.
Gameloft’s virtual card game “Uno” allows up to four friends to gather around an iPad and play.
There are hundreds of free iPad games, while other games range in price from $5 to $13. Games range from EA Mobile’s ubiquitous “Tetris” to SGN’s third-person shooter “EXO-Planet.”
Some publishers offer lower-priced iPod Touch/iPhone ports as well as slightly more expensive iPad versions that take advantage of the new functionality.
“By taking an existing iPhone game and modifying it for iPad we believe that it will not only bring a new experience to an existing title, but basically create a new game,” said de Vallois.
For example, Gameloft’s iPad shooter “N.O.V.A Near Orbit Vanguard Alliance” allows players to use two fingers to curve a grenade toss and offers multi-targeting capabilities with a hand-drawn grid that eliminates all enemies on the screen with a rocket. The game originated on iPhone and iPod Touch.
“I think Apple learned their lesson about the importance of gaming from the iPhone and the iPod Touch,” said Young. “It was really that first holiday season for the iPod Touch where Apple recognized and realized gaming was such a huge part of the business and the iPod Touch had found its home as a game machine.”
Apple is set to “revolutionize” yet another industry. They have done it with the music industry, the mobile telecommunication industry, and look set to do it with the mobile computing industry through the new iPad. The new iPad is positioned as an alternative to the hot-selling netbook PC’s which have generated huge revenues for computer giants Dell, HP, and Acer. Netbooks have been a huge success because of its ultra portability and extremely cheap price compared to a normal laptop. Apple’s new iPad will be competing directly with the netbook industry with Apple’s version of what a real “netbook” should be.
The new iPad looks like an oversized iPod Touch with a 9.7 inch LED widescreen multi-touch display. It looks like Apple is fully utilizing their multi-touch technology to create products that have been proved very popular. Apple’s new iPad features include:
• browsing the internet
• checking e-mails
• viewing photos
• reading e-books
• playing video games
• listening to music
• watching videos
Basically the new iPad enables people to do the most basic computing tasks that has become a daily routine in today’s information era. People want something that is affordable, portable, and user-friendly which is exactly what Apple’s new iPad is offering. With a starting price of just $499, it looks certain that the new iPad is on the wishlist of many people from all walks of life.
Since the new iPad will not be available till April 3, the anticipation for this next ‘big thing’ from Apple is clearly gaining momentum as we can see from the various news and blogs that are constantly raving about the new iPad even though it’s not yet available.
I would personally be one of those early adopters and I’m all set to be lining up in front of my local Apple Store this coming April 3. What about you guys?
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Steve Johnson has been a loyal Apple fanboy ever since he got his hands on his first iPod. The iPod led him to other Apple products and turned him to a full time Apple Geek. He enjoys writing and reviewing gadgets and all sorts of technological related products with a slight bias towards Apple, as you might already know.
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