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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nik Barbour" data-source="post: 49467">Got to agree with the other posters. I gave up gaming when 1st gen xbox was replaced (renovated a house, had a kid, too busy) but had an android phone. Always been a big pinball fan, and heard TPA was coming in Oct 2011, waited and waited, finally it released Feb 2012. My phone is a minimum spec to play 1ghz single core 3.5" device, just powerful enough to run it - not powerful enough to run it nicely, and the screen is too small. You can play, but its not a good experience.Months go by, summer comes, more tables are available. My wife asks what I want for my birthday, so I figure, I'd get an xbox (platform TPA is developed on) as I'm enjoying playing it so much, purely for TPA and Netflix. Get the Xbox, and its great, lighting is nice, analogue nudging, then the Dlc drought strikes. I wanted to play the new tables, so back to my phone frustrations. Xmas coming, again asked what I'd like, an Android tablet please. So now I've got a Nexus 7, good fast processor, Tegra chip, beautiful screen, it's awesome. I can honestly say now, the console (even if dlc was available) comes a poor second to a good tablet. Let's do a benefits list... Xbox benefits - Better lightingAnalogue nudgingHaptic feedback in controller Android tablet benefits - Mobile - play anywhere Portrait and landscape orientations 3 control options - touchscreen, shake nudge (which works really well on the Nexus), or using wireless ps3 controller (I'm rooted and use 'Sixaxis' app.) First release access to dlc. Access to beta for all Android users. Hardware same price as older consoles - likely to be half price of new gen consoles. I can see and read more table details on the tablet than the console (mostly due to orientation) and higher res models are in the pipeline. I don't agree with Sean on the scoring either, I think he has ios on which shake nudging is impossible, he probably has to use touchscreen. My tablet scores after only 2 weeks are starting to go past my console scores now, and I would think if he had an Android tablet he'd see the same. If it weren't for Zen exclusives on xbox and gta5 coming, I'd probably sell the Xbox before it becomes defunct at the end of the year. Xbox pinball hall of fame, Black Knight (one of my favourites) plays much better than TPA version too. It's come as a shock to me too, I thought the console versions would easily outshine the mobile platforms (which was why I bought the console first). And prior to getting a good tablet, have sung the praises of the consoles - but I have had my mind changed. TPA on a good Android tablet is infinitely better than the Xbox version in my opinion. It's console only owners I feel sorry for. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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