Nintendo's Wii U isn't the only gaming-themed electronic hardware product that's coming out this fall. This week, pre-orders have started for the previously announced Wikipad portable gaming tablet.
GameStop's website has a pre-order listing for the Wikipad, which is priced at $499. The site shows a release date of October 31st, although it's not clear yet if GameStop will be the only place at the moment to buy a Wikipad.
As you can see, the Wikipad comes with a controller dock that adds two analog sticks, a directional pad, and four buttons to the Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) tablet, which should make playing a number of Android-based games, such as first person shooters and driving games, a lot easier.
As we have previously reported, the 10.1 inch Wikipad also comes with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, one GB of memory, 16 GB of storage, an eight megapixel rear camera and a two megapixel front camera. The tablet is supposed to last about six hours on battery power.
While it's great that there will soon be a touch screen tablet with a game controller dock add-on, we are still awaiting word on Razer's previously announced "Project Fiona". The company demoed a prototype of the impressive looking Windows-based touch screen gaming tablet at CES 2012 in January but since then the company has been silent on their plans for the product.
Source: GameStop | Image via Wikipad
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