Following Apple's announcement of iOS 5 and AirPlay at WWDC 2011, developer Firemint has revealed that Real Racing 2 HD will be the first game to take advantage of the Cupetino company's wireless streaming technology, AirPlay Mirroring.
iPad 2 owners will be able to play the game on an HD display, through an AppleTV, while their tablet displays race telemetry data and a circuit map.
"We see AirPlay as a real game-changer," says Firemint in a statement. "It allows us to bring a fresh, never-before-seen level of freedom to Real Racing 2 HD. Combined with the precision steering and brilliant 3D visuals made possible by iPad 2′s phenomenal hardware, Real Racing 2 HD over AirPlay promises an experience you’ll have to play to believe."
Considering this and today's announcement that Onlive will be coming to iPad (along with its associated dual-stick controller), Apple's device is shaping up to offer Nintendo's Wii U, and whatever Sony's PS3/Vita combination turns out to be, some serious competition.
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11iPad = £399Apple TV = £101Total = £500
Add on the cost of the TV too and you're looking at something that won't even come close to delivering as rich an experience as a dedicated games console for the price you are paying for it.
It's not fair to include the TV in that calculation; you'll need that for the Wii U as well, and who doesn't already have one?
But apart from that, I agree completely. The CPU/GPU in the Wii U console will be much more powerful than the A4 (or is it A5) in the iPad as they'll be running on AC and cooling is less of an issue.
And more importantly, the controller has buttons. Touch screen-only interfaces suck. I know the rest of the world disagrees with me on that one, but they'll come to their senses some day.
You misunderstand, Apple Tv(apples little black box), not the TV itself! Of course I could be confused and you need the apple tv to play the WiiU, but I kinda doubt it somehow.
This is more an extra thing you can do with your iPad and Apple TV...
If you buy all this stuff expecting to play better games than on a Wii U then you're an idiot... But if you already have them all and use them for what they were intended for then you can do this too.
No, if you disregard Apple then you're an idiot.
How may millions of IOS 5 platforms will be in homes by the time the Wii U launches? Couple that with $99 pricetag for Apple TV and you have a very aggressive move by Apple for your living room.
In my experience with iPad games (I have one!) the best experiences on it are always the ones where the developer has considered that its only form of haptic feedback is the touch screen. Sloppily implementing dual analog controls on the screen just doesn't work - and it uses up valuable screen real-estate (even if they're invisible, you have to cover the screen with your hands).
For the benefit of competition being good for the consumer, go ahead Apple, I want to see what you can come up with, but honestly, I expect the gaming experience you get from WiiU will be leagues above a similar experience on iPad/Apple TV.
I'm not disregarding Apple, i wrote this and my last post on my iPad...
I am writing this on my iPhone and it is great but as a gamimg device? Not really...everything else it does is cool tho. I dont see them as a competitor against the Wii U as a gaming device
Considering that in this set-up, the iPad is doing all of the processing, the Wii U will deliver a superior experience (yay, buttons!) at a lower price.
The two-screen recipe has been an enormous success for Nintendo with the DS, it might just work with the Wii U as well.
No, the IPad is doing the streaming. That is all. As long as the latency exists then the experience is of playing on a high spec PC/ 360/platformX. And Onlive has a pad too. Do you even know what you're writing off?
Everybody stop copying Nintendo even though you might haved thought of the idea first.