It doesn't matter if tablets or cell phones are MORE powerful than consoles. People play on consoles because that is their preference.

Console Quality Tablets won't matter without Console quality controls.

* Tablet controls are worse than the Atari joystick from the 80's.

Tablets bring graphics forward into the future but they leave controls behind in the past.

Are you watching or playing?

Never write never. Computers use to be a whole room, not it's fits in your pocket and hand and it's hundred, if not thousands of times more powerful and efficient.

Cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon.

"Multiple IBM System/360 Model 75 mainframe computers, costing up to $3.5 million apiece all the while occupying tremendous amounts of space, were operational at NASA at the time. Each could perform several hundred thousand addition operations per second, and their total memory capacity was in the megabyte range. As for the 70-pound Apollo Guidance Computer, which the Apollo 11 Command Module had on board, it was a machine that had 64 kilobytes of memory and operated at 0.043MHz. In comparison, an iPhone 5s, which you can easily fit into any pocket, has a CPU running at speeds of up to 1.3GHz – enough to enable the execution of millions of calculations each second. And the iPhone's 1GB of RAM should well suffice for storing the 6 megabytes of code that NASA developed to monitor the status of its spacecrafts and astronauts in 1969."
Source: http://www.phonearena.com/n...

It's all about making technoly smaller, more powerful and eventually invisible. Just imagine what we'll do with tablets...it excites me actually.

When humans, technology and profit are involved, it creates a perfect synergy making everything possible. It's all about incentives....And tech/science improves every single year.

What's most likely to occur initially is that a tablet will be able to substitute a console's space yet still be mobile afterwards.

New Tegra chip is more powerful than the 360/ps3.
The difference is anybody wanting to make serious money would never has a game just running on the most powerful chip set, a bit like pc gaming.

iOS and Android are Operating Systems, not hardware specs.

It's always so bizarre when studios announce something super early in development under the suggestion of forming the game to player feedback, and then they push against all feedback heading straight for the cliff while everyone is warning them along the way

No. There were elections and some of the scum were replaced.