iPad game display modes compared

Thank you. The iPad is not in the running as a games console.

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Hmmm, industry has a different take on it...

http://gizmodo.com/5465347/iphone-is-now-more-popular-than-ds-and-psp-among-game-developers

It's no big deal if you don't want to game on these devices, but realize games will be happening on it, and millions of people will play them.

People game on the iPhone because they have one. People have an iPhone because it's not a useless piece of crap (even if it is unreasonably locked down). If people don't buy an iPad because it IS a useless piece of crap, people won't game on their iPads that they don't have.

Also, I came into this comment section just to make sure someone had posted "Nobody cares," or I was going to do it. Kudos. :)

That's true. I just beat Toe Jam & Earl on a 50 inch plasma last night... It def didn't look as mint as I remember.. when it was on a 17 inch tube TV and I was 13.

Couldn't have said it better myself. You deserve to be blue.

I'm not really bitter about anything. I just don't see why any reasonable person would care about a novelty-sized iPhone.

I'm not bitter. But I am annoyed at these articles. This is a great article for engadget, but on joystiq I expect news relevant to gamers. A a general tech enthusiast the iPad is interesting, but it is not a proper gaming platform and has no place next to devices like the PSP and DS. I don't feel like it belongs here. More than the ipad itself not belonging here this article is extremely pointless. We already knew that games could be stretched or rendered at their native resolution the day the iPad was announced. There's no reason for a whole article about it.

I have a PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. My iPod touch gets the most play. Sorry - this is relevant news to me and I welcome it on a gaming site.

You have a point, but just to clarify: Are you doubting that the iPad can render a simple 2D game at its own native resolution?

These are polys with textures. And the textures are all stretched and rotated as the discs rotate and are of different sizes. There is no guarantee the quality of texture anti-aliasing and rotation (i.e. mapping) displayed by the graphics card on the Mac is the same as on the device.

Is it likely to worse? I dunno, probably not. But either way this article doesn't add any information to the discussion. It doesn't even tell us how the 2X stretch will look because that's being done by the Mac card not the device hardware in the simulator too!

exactly why I gave up on iTouch/iPhone games the controls sucked.

i dont think you should be saying that towards the ipad. who knows maybe you guys just suck at it, you never know.

i went over to IGNorant and they gave a horrible review to CoD ModernWarfare reflex for wii. and they complained about the graphics of course >_> but even tho it was better than W@W they still said it was worse.

but back on topic, they said the controls were the worst ever, saying how "the wii has some good games for their unique controls but you wont find it here" which made everyone furious! because the controls were spot on perfect, especially the controls far surpassed the conduit which was all about controls. now people that actually believe that garbage will pass up on such a great game.

now the people who reviewed the wii game is most likely a 360 or ps3 fan boy but since i only have a wii i appreciate the wii controls over standard analog sticks for FPSs anyday!
but who knows maybe they're people who prefer the ipad controls better than others. i for one might. have you ever played a fps on ds? i cant stand! the controls (and graphix. tegra FTW) if nintendo decides to use the multi-touch (which is pretty much a 99.9% chance) in their touch screen then we can finally actually have a good FPS for a handheld like how psp controls it but instead of the analog stick and buttons to move the ds can have the touch screen for the analog sticks and d-pad and buttons for everything else

What are you talking about it DOES suck, or, were you kidding about being banned?