Its not just about the apple tablets as there are many other kinds in different forms and styles, so please don't make this discussion about your hate for apple products.
Its not just about the apple tablets as there are many other kinds in different forms and styles, so please don't make this discussion about your hate for apple products.
"Would you buy Europa Universalis if it was on the Ipad?" is the title of the thread, and the OP asked people who wouldn't want it why not.
I personally wouldn't buy it because I waste enough time playing the game as it is. I don't need to take it with me everywhere I go.
"Would you buy Europa Universalis if it was on the Ipad?" is the title of the thread, and the OP asked people who wouldn't want it why not.
I personally wouldn't buy it because I waste enough time playing the game as it is. I don't need to take it with me everywhere I go.
Okay people let's settle down now! I'm going to put this into the perspective it should have been the whole time.
What the OP is asking is if you would take a game designed for desktops(and mid-range+ laptops) and place it into an inferior machine(ie a tablet) when my desktop, which is badass by the way, still causes the game to lag all the time (not terribly though) because that can only be good for you.
Now why would I call a tablet an inferior machine? Do I hate tablets? No. I just see them for what they are and they are not made to play desktop grade games. They are a niche tool just as EU3 has niche market. A tablet of today is definitely an improvement... over other tablets of the past. A tablet of today is far inferior to a desktop or even a laptop.
I have an analogy that should make this look simpler.
What the Op is asking is if you would want to place an object that barely fits in a big box(let's say it has 1% overflow) and place it in a box that's half the size of the Big box! Now do you see how foolish it is?
Okay people let's settle down now! I'm going to put this into the perspective it should have been the whole time.
What the OP is asking is if you would take a game designed for desktops(and mid-range+ laptops) and place it into an inferior machine(ie a tablet) when my desktop, which is badass by the way, still causes the game to lag all the time (not terribly though) because that can only be good for you.
Now why would I call a tablet an inferior machine? Do I hate tablets? No. I just see them for what they are and they are not made to play desktop grade games. They are a niche tool just as EU3 has niche market. A tablet of today is definitely an improvement... over other tablets of the past. A tablet of today is far inferior to a desktop or even a laptop.
I have an analogy that should make this look simpler.
What the Op is asking is if you would want to place an object that barely fits in a big box(let's say it has 1% overflow) and place it in a box that's half the size of the Big box! Now do you see how foolish it is?
Really? EU3 does not run at 720p.My 3 year old 13,3 inch computer can play the game at max (720p resolution)
Sir, there is no such spec as "13.3 inch" when it comes to the computer. I think you mean your monitor is 13.3 inches. That is irrelevant in regards to your computer running EU3. EU3: Chronicles requires 2.4 Ghz of Processing Speed. No tablet out there has that king of processing speed. Yes I do see what Tablets are really for. They're for, in regard to gaming, casual gaming. EU3 is not casual gaming. EU3 is a highly niche game that not many people are going to want to play in it's current form. It would have to be simplified and that would anger the gamers in EU3's niche. There is no current market for a game like EU3 on Tablets.
So if there was a tablet that had 2.4 GHz processing speed, it would work. And that probably won't take too long to happen. Especially if Paradox worked on optimizing EU3 so it isn't as processor intensive and/or could use multiple cores.
For the market - there might not be a large market for EU3-type games on tablets. But then, there isn't a large market for PCs either. That doesn't make it useless to make.
What is this, the 4th time I'm telling you. The Tegra 3 processor is a quad core processor running at 1,4 Ghz. Double the amount you say Europa Universalis 3 needs.
And you sure do toss around niche a lot. Every game is a niche game, everything product in our world is targeted for a specific audience. You haven't even done any research on the tablet markets gaming. You automatically generalize all tablet consumers to be casual gamers. Which simply is untrue. Most of the things you say isn't based on fact, and most of it is just guessing. You don't know how the tablet market would react to this kinds of games, you know why? Because there are none like it out there. Therefore it's impossible to know how the market will react before someone will take that pioneering step.
Except EU3 currently only uses a single core (although some of the newer versions of other Clausewitz-engine games are finally multi-threaded I believe). Also GHz is not the only measurement of CPU speed; a 2 GHz Pentium M (or a single core of a Core 2 Duo) will outperform a 3 GHz Pentium 4 for example on most software. Finally, what about 3D acceleration (especially programmable shaders)? Regardless of CPU, EU3 needs a GPU to do all of the graphics calculations.The Tegra 3 processor is a quad core processor running at 1,4 Ghz. Double the amount you say Europa Universalis 3 needs.