AFTERPAD

Hi Everyone,

First off, thank you Kevin for the awesome site!

I have an iphone 5s, iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, and the Steelseries Nimbus, and I am interested in gaming on a tv/monitor. My searching tells me that neither of the two current options (litghning to HDMI/VGA or AppleTV AirPlay) are satisfactory, but I am not sure.

It is hard to quantify the latency of different setups that people talk about and I wish that someone could setup and then video-tape a few configurations with something like a stopwatch running on the iPhone to give a true sense of the latency of each.

I just wanted to chime in to say that I hope that some sort of proper video-out functionality is developed because I am too old  and cheap to buy any current gen console + games and I see the iPhone/iPad has great potential in this respect.

I feel that the Nintendo Switch perfectly illustrates the potential for smartphones/tablets as home consoles. I hope that 'real-gamers' will someday get it, though I am pretty sure they will have no choice in a few more years.

-TheGlutton