You may have heard about this one. Yes, it's another post about Apple's new "tablet". The device will be unveiled later today, but that hasn't stopped games execs getting slightly overexcited about this potential new platform. Bart Decrem, of iPhone game maker Tapulous, is particularly keen:
The center of gravity in gaming is moving away from the console to these other devices. We're going to wake up a year from now and see that this is a very important part of gaming
The big publishers are interested too – EA Sports' Peter Moore, for one:
If it's got a great screen, some buttons, you can turn it on and it connects to the Internet, it's got the ability to be a games machine.
Former Sega boss Simon Jeffrey strikes a note of caution though, at least to those developers expecting to easily port over their iPhone titles. He argues the games made for the device will need to be deeper and more engaging than a typical iPhone/iPod Touch game.
Anyway, all will be revealed later and then you can decide yourself if your traditional games console has been superceded. My guess? Don't throw out your 360/PS3/Wii just yet…
