Nope still gay. I'm sorry but the iPad had so much potential to be an amazing piece of hardware, then they went and ruined it and gave it the iPhone OS which did nothing but turn it into an over sized iPhone, awesome.

@ChronosWing

Yep, my feelings exactly. I would have totally bought one had it had OSX. Now I just want it to go away forever.
And this is coming from an enormous Apple whore.

They all look pretty neat, but I'm pretty sure it's because the developers have it on EASY or some demo mode where gameplay is tailored to a speech. I doubt this crap will work as smooth once the device is released.

like so.....

$500 is the new 4.5

IPAD is pointless and dumb.

FPS's may not do all that well on the iPad, but some games could do very, very well, i.e. games not requiring that same level of precise/accurate control. We're not going to see any Mass Effect or Uncharted quality games on it, obviously, and there's going to be a lot of crap shovelware to sift through, just like the iPhone/iPod. But, also, there's going to be some gems hidden in there that are great for passing some time on the go. RPG's and RTS's could be great, and plenty of other types of games. If you're looking at the iPad and criticizing it because it can't handle FPS's as well as a 360, then you're really looking at it wrong, in my opinion. It's not a dedicated game system, and it's not going to do some things as well as those systems do, in the same way as a PSP or DS is not exactly ideal for anything other than games.

Personally I can't wait to get my hands on one of these. Would it be nice to have a fully reworked version of OS X? Sure, I guess. But the iPhone OS is great too, and with the changes they've made for the iPad, I think it will be just right. Sure, there are some things I wish would be different, but for the price and the polish I don't see anything else comparable. And if you don't like touch screens, that's fine, but really they are anything but gimmicky, and they aren't going away anytime soon.

Way to over priced to consider over a superier pc.

Ugh, and NOVA is so freakin' BORING!

I got to the last level and just lost interest. The controls are ok, but NOVA is so generic it's not even funny.

@Johnny

A large amount usb powered devices that don't have bluetooth, How about I'm out of the country I brought my iPad thinking oh that's all I'll need, I take some photos with my digital camera decide I want to send them to my friends and family or post them on flickr, oh wait what's this the iPad has no usb slot for me to hook up my camera now what? Oh just hook the camera up to the nearest computer and transfer that way you say? I should of just brought a fucking netbook or a laptop then at least they can do something that simple. If the iPad is meant to compete with netbooks then it fails completely, if it was meant to compete with tablet pc's it also fails. It's missing way to many key features that other tablets/netbooks come standard with and at half the asking price.

"The comments I'm referring to are those talking about how the demo of NOVA controlled."

It controlled pretty poorly. Epic fail with the grenade throw. Also, lets see you highlight a few enemies while they are shooting at you.

Well, as for the camera no I wouldn't say hook it up to a computer. I'd say use the dock connector's camera adapter, which as the name says is specifically for this purpose. Or bluetooth/wi-fi if the camera supports it.

For a controller, there may be a bluetooth solution at somepoint also, but I wouldn't hold my breath for that.

Well, Destrutoid gave NOVA a 9, i can't imagine it being worse on a large screen with more comprehensive/customizable controls. This demo showed some interesting touch-control ideas which seem to work out really well.

It's certainly a more useful device than the overpriced, under-designed piece of garbage that is the PSP, and even the measly iPhone 3.0 had the equivelent of 2x PS2 GPU's. So yes, there is potential for games. In fact, given that the DS's best games rely almost entirely on touch controls, the Iphone can be, if properly utilized, a far superior system. (Chinatown Wars is best played on the iPhone, for sure.)

People don't seem to understand that the iPad is not being designed for games, so i don't know what the fuck everybody is in such a huff about. It's targeting the Netbook market. Hypothetically if you were looking for a netbook there would be no reason to get anything other than the iPad, because netbooks are largely worthless and the Ipad would indeed do everything they do minus the uglyness, (and as a bonus have some nifty gaming capabilities.) I say hypothetically, however, because the iPad doesn't support flash, and as 90% of the internet requires flash, the iPad is consequently a complete waste of time.

Another point that's not being given all that much attention, these game demos were coded in 3 weeks. Again, 3 weeks. To be honest I'd have been happy with decent looking videos, much less actual playable builds on a relatively new platform.