Played a couple quick games on my iPhone 4. Frame rate feels great, pans across the table feel like a smooth 60 fps. Visually it also looks great on the smaller screen, and the audio just from the phone's speakers shocked me, maybe it's the nature of the games themselves, but it sounded way better than I expected.
Physics seemed great too, no problems there. So I'm very impressed considering in many ways, this is almost like a beta launch, as it is out only on iOS, and I don't think that's a coincidence given the leniency Apple has with updates (completely free).
I have read other complaints about the poor framerates on Ripley's, even on an iPad 2. I believe they will patch it, they seem very dedicated to improve and fix any problems of previous tables they release. Hopefully for the March launches all these bugs are ironed out for the other platforms.
The complaints about texture quality on larger screen will probably be addressed at some point too I am guessing, since obviously the other versions (console/PC) use higher quality textures than what they released, and the iPad/iPhone is capable of outputting them. I read the only difference between the iPad 1 & 2 is the 2 has AA added, so there's probably a decent amount of room left for optimizations.
But I really enjoyed what I played, had no trouble keeping up with everything on the small screen, even during a multi-ball. After Farsight Studios puts out a few more updates, they'll have what is probably one of the most impressive pinball collections made. Even the tables that existed previously and have been re-released again here I read have been improved further.
