While the iPad improves, consoles/PCs will also improve, but you nail it by questioning whether people want it enough to pay more for it (another wii-like example is the popularity of casual flash games); and that prices will increase due to art costs (absent unforeseen algorithmic generation techniques...), which would seem to be limited by cinematic quality. If so, when the iPad matches that, there will be no reason to get a console/PC for gaming (assuming HDMI & controller sockets).
As disruptive as onlive seems to be it's basically low latency vnc for gaming and where the iPad keeps breaking sale records, onlive is growing slowly. Unsure why it isn't taking off more
While the iPad improves, consoles/PCs will also improve, but you nail it by questioning whether people want it enough to pay more for it (another wii-like example is the popularity of casual flash games); and that prices will increase due to art costs (absent unforeseen algorithmic generation techniques...), which would seem to be limited by cinematic quality. If so, when the iPad matches that, there will be no reason to get a console/PC for gaming (assuming HDMI & controller sockets).