iPad 2 Games Look As Good As Xbox 360 Games On A 50-Inch HDTV

Check out this video of the iPad 2 playing Chair Entertainment’s Infinity Blade on a 50-inch LG HDTV running at 1080p, thanks to the new iPad HDMI adapter. That’s a ten-dollar game looking just as lurid and beautiful in high-definition as a $60 Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 game.

Here’s another video of Real Racing 2 HD in action on the same setup:

Touch Gen has more videos of iPad 2 games in action through the official HDMI adapter. Why Apple doesn’t just let the $99 AppleTV play apps through a paired iOS device is beyond me: they’d single handedly destroy Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in the console games market with one swoop