Of course we have seen ports of older PC games show up on the iPod. But we can certainly see the big touch-pad as a huge resource for games that have normally had been made just for the PC. Certainly complex RTS games could be handled and designed to work much better on a iPad's screen as opposed to the smaller iPod Touch. Old-style point-and-click adventure games could also be developed very well on the iPad, especially since most of them have low system requirements. Even MMO games could possibly be played on an iPad much more easily than an iPod Touch, especially with the 3G version that would keep players online no matter where they are. Could you play World of Warcraft on an iPad? We think so.

On the other hand there will also be limits to what the iPad could do for games that have a PC audience. Certainly the hardware would not be able to handle high end Crysis like graphics, at least in its first incarnation. Hardware always improves but then again hardware also improves on the PC as well. Just this month, Dell announced their plans to launch a netbook-size Alienware laptop that's designed for gaming later this year. It will have a high end Nvidia mobile graphics processor, lots more hard drive space and more for less than $1,000. You can also bet that the Alienware product won't be the end of laptop hardware development for gaming. AMD is set to release DirectX 11 based mobile graphics products later this year.

There's no doubt that the iPad will be a big seller, at least at first, from the early adopters. The big question is if the masses that have bought the iPhone and iPods will be attracted to this new product. If they are, you can bet that game developers will find a way to make more complex PC-like game titles for the iPad. But Apple's products usually generate lots of copycats. We are betting that some people are already trying to come up with a way to make a high end PC tablet that will look and feel like the iPad but can also run high end PC games. The end result? PC gaming itself isn't going away because of the iPad but perhaps the way we play PC games and on what kinds of products could change, radically, in the future.

In the meantime, we have a number of sister sites that are at the Apple event to give their hands-on opinion of the device including Engadget, TUAW and Joystiq.