I just found this on Engadget but for $500, not too shabby. I wonder how the Android updates will go.

IPS display with 1,280 x 800 resolution
NVIDIA Tegra 3 T30 quad-core 1.4GHz processor
1GB of DDR2 RAM
16GB or 32GB of storage, with a microSD slot for expansion.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
8-megapixel rear / 2-megapixel front cameras
six hours continuous gaming battery

I just remembered that $499 was in US so it will be like $599 CDN + and that is no doubt the 16gb version.....

So now that tablet became a little steep rather than shabby.

Why is it called the wikipad?

This is a thing?

who exactly is the market for this? i can't imaging spending $500 dollars on an android tablet like this. i actually like the idea of the detachable controller, but at this point, as an ipad owner, any new tablet i buy is probably going to be a windows 8 one (or maybe RT depending on what kind of software support it gets).

and if i really decide i need to play some android games with a dual stick controller, i'll spend a hundred bucks on an ouya.

this is connected to wikipedia, I presume? how odd. or is there no link between the two?

its going to flop I would never preorder this

Finally, I can have WikiPedia on the go.

It's actually a good price for what it offer, but I rather get one of this chinese gaming tablet, it's not as powerful as the wikipad but at least it's really cheap:
http://dx.com/p/jxd-s7100-7-capacitive-android-2-2-tablet-game-console-w-camera-wifi-tf-cortex-a9-1ghz-8gb-113132?item=1

Looks pretty cool, not $500 cool, but cool nonetheless, plus I like the look of this one far better than the other one, (can't for the life of me remember the name), the one with the 2 wiimotes taped to the side.

might buy at $199 but no thank you at that price. I rather get a Wii U for half the price.

I'll buy a Wikipad, if it could handle Metal Gear Rising Revegence!

Lol.

also could we give this thing an i5 and an actual GPU, this shit is already chunky as it is, you might as well go full blast.

Essentially they are trying to get the Vita/3DS gamer to go for this. I refuse. Im not paying $500 for something hat is going to play mediocre games.

"The Wikipad, the first tablet with a console-style gamepad controller, will be released this fall for $499."

Depends on what you consider a "console-style gamepad". This is just a slate tablet with a controller attachment that comes with it. The two things can be separated. The controls aren't actually built into the device. I'm pretty sure it's not the first gamepad cradle for a tablet.

Regardless, I don't see myself buying this but I'm glad that it exists. I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo IdeaTab or the Kindle Fire HD (both the 9" flavors) and having more games on Google Play built around physical controls means that it might actually be useful to hook a Bluetooth controller to it.

@MikeShadows

Fair warning, that thing is a pile of shit. And not even the decent kind. The Chinese knockoff kind. A pitiful 800x480 display resolution, single core CPU, and a two year old version of Android with no Market access. That thing literally won't do anything beyond run a SNES emulator. Seriously man, stay far away from that thing unless you're hellbent on wasting $150.

@ctg867

But I've seen some videos on youtube and it seems to emulate neo geo and N64 fairly well.
Oh well, that sucks. =/

Eh I'm more interested in that controller (mobo?moga?) that attaches to my existing phone. Spending $500 on something like that just for gaming, you might as well just get a Vita or 3DS.

@MikeShadows

You might be able to get *some* 5th gen emulation on that as well, but you really can't do much more on a single core A9 and a Mali 400. The resolution won't matter much for emulation, but a Chinese knockoff for that price is going to have a pretty mediocre panel almost 100% of the time. Terrible viewing angles, poor black levels, mediocre color reproduction, ghosting, the whole nine. And good luck getting 5 hours out of the thing for more than a few months before the battery wears out because the lithium ion cells are are shitty.

If you don't wanna drop $500 on this thing, that totally make sense, but you're pretty much wasting $150 if you get something like that. You'd be better off spending $130 on a PSP and running emulators on it, or spending $250 on a Vita and waiting for the inevitable custom firmware to come. Hell, I'd even recommend a Pandora before I'd recommend a system like that.

That price makes the Vita look cheap, and the Ouya a viable option for Android with buttons and sticks.

This, or a Kindle Fire HD...

The pricing is WAY off.. controls or no controls, they need to be looking at what the likes of Google has done with the Nexus 7.. I'm not saying it has to be a similar price more that they should be looking to initially take a hit on the hardware in order to get them into peoples hands.. It's not rocket science, even for a business f***wit like myself.

This looks exactly like my Asus Transformer, except mine doesn't have the dock, mine has a tegra 2 processor though:(

The name is terribad, and I'm unsure if I like the look of the controller design but I don't know.. Its got my eye. I'm in the market for a Tablet, maybe this could be the one (I really, for whatever reason, can't bring myself to want an iPad)

10.1" is a bit big to be portable with the enclosure. I'm a much bigger fan of the bluetooth efforts of Power A (can't remember the controller name though) in trying to get companies to standardize their controls for the pad they are developing. And you can use your phone (it can hold your phone up for you) or your tablet with it and not have this giant hulk of a thing to use while playing.

Interesting that the stick placement is almost the same as on the Wii U; wonder if we'll see other controllers with that configuration in the future.

Yeah....the problem is, I don't use my ipad like that. I use it for sheet music and reading. If I want to game -- I have 3 huge consoles and a laptop for that.