iOS gaming versus console gaming
tj replied to your post: Xbox 360 first-run game install procedures are getting out of hand
This is why my only gaming devices are iOS devices.
Meh. There’s nothing on iOS to compare to Skyrim or Forza 4 or Minecraft, and those are just the three games I’ve played this afternoon. Yeah, there’s a few racing games — but none look as good as Forza, none support 16-person multiplayer, and none support proper controllers (not even a pad, and certainly not my preferred force feedback steering wheel). The iOS version of Minecraft is watered-down junk. And none of these games will play on my 40” TV screen connected to my 5.1 surround sound system, unless you count the laggy Airplay, which I do not.
I continue to agree with John Carmack that so far mobile device gaming is “a diversion rather than a destination”.
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tj said:
That’s assuming that one wants gaming to be anything other than a diversion. I think I burned through all my “destination play” back in my Atari 7800 days.
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