You'd be surprised by the horsepower some games require, my wife plays Love and Deep Space and she recently just bought a new iPad because the game requires some good specs and a LOT of storage space. She's not a "serious gamer" as your parlance.

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isodev 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But the iPad is not a console … it doesn’t even do Steam. All that horsepower to play … a couple of forever titles and that’s it. I have the M1 iPad Air and it has never used that processor to its fullest. I think iPad is just an odd device for most people

	▲	boplicity 3 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Remember, the reason the iPad doesn't do Steam is because Apple won't let it. It is perfectly capable otherwise.
	▲	agoodusername63 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		mobile gaming is much bigger than HN would believe. A lot of people do in fact, play more than a couple forever titles. I know multiple weebs that want more powerful ipads to play mobage.
	▲	michaelmcdonald 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		On the go video / photo editing is AMAZING on my iPad! More power speeds up some the effects / transition editing. Batch processing, all with a device that has great battery life and is smaller than a magazine. For super heavy stuff, sure, use my Mac, but when I travel and want to be productive on the go, the iPad is awesome!
	▲	bensyverson 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I do wonder about this too… I'm cutting 4K video and doing SwiftUI development on an M1 MacBook Air. My current plan is to upgrade next year, but only if they upgrade the screen. An M4 seems like a dramatic over-spec for a tablet.
	▲	bigyabai 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, maybe I'm too much of a "real gamer" but my iPad sits unused. The quality (and greediness!) of games on the iOS App Store is often worse than the direct-download console slop.