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DArtagnan
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Haha … no, not at all!
All I am saying is that I looked at X-COM on my iPad (a Mini, so I don't even have the Retina screen), and compared to the recent Mac release, and the PC game on my gaming laptop and my ultra book. And the iPad version, as you would expect, is well below the systems with dedicated GPUs, but pretty consistent with a system that is not at the bottom of the required specs.
I am only making that comparison because the HD4000 represents the majority of PC sales, and therefore the experience of MOST people playing games on the PC. The problem is when you say 'on the PC', it has different meanings … so I go to the one that the majority of people own.
And I agree - it is perhaps best left to more objectively measurable things … because otherwise you would have to concern yourself that the electricity required for a high-end PC or console + TV would allow you to buy & power an iPad every other year
I joke - but the reality is that in a system that doesn't require a constant high-consumption power source (desktop PC, console) or drain power quickly and require complex, noisy cooling while still getting uncomfortably warm (high end laptop) … the iPad has the ability to produce some amazing graphic *in that context*.
Sure, it's both amazing and utterly useless if you care about enthusiast/mainstream gaming to any serious degree
I don't know why it's so hard to understand.
It's not that I'm not impressed by what an iPad can do. It's that I understand what it CAN'T do - and it wouldn't make the slightest difference if they were handing them out for free or they had infinite battery life.
It's that I care about gaming a lot - and I don't want to look at or play something that's significantly inferior to a console/PC version.
It's the same point I've been making all along.