How Much Would You Pay For Microsoft Surface?

[Destil]

I think I'd be willing to buy it around $500. But it would be important to have mature software, an easy way to swap out the PC side of the hardware and good reliability, durability and life expectancy. I don't see any of these happening within the next few years, 5-10 maybe.

 

[falcarrion]

It all depends on what it could do...

In saying this, I mean in terms of hardware, not software. Is it possible for me to embed some sort of RFID chip into the bottom of my LOTR or D&D miniatures and have the table keep track of their locations? If so, I'd buy it just for the miniature wargaming aspect alone. Being able to have hundreds of units on a table with statistics being automatically kept track of by a computer instead of by hand would imho make things more enjoyable.

I've found in general, games tend to be made simple because otherwise you do have to keep track of a ton of things with charts and multiples sheets of data. If you can make the data easier to handle, games can become more complex and interesting.

Plus I think it would be a blast to have some computer war games that you could control on the table with a top down view.

They have what they call fiducals. They are designs that can be read by the software and printed out on stickers that you can stick on the bottom of objects. In this case figures.