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superchunk on 12 September 2012
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haxxiy said:
superchunk said:

Now if iPhone had the awesomeness to sync to PS3 controllers like Android can (honestly I bet it can, just don't own iPhone to verify), then you could have identical gaming experiences as well. I'm telling ya, phone and tablet gaming will be on par with current-gen by 2013 and by 2014 will probably have identical games as PS4/720/WiiU. The late 2013 GoogleTV devices will be serious contenders.


So one year after they reach PS360 they'll have a 8x leap and reach PS4/720? I'd take WiiU out of the picture because if anything you could lump it on your 2013 scenario, with current-gen games... hey, differences are that small already aren't they.

Did you even bother to estimate how fast a theoretical PS4/720-level GPU would drain an iPhone battery, even accounting for differences on screen size?

 

The bounds that mobile industry has grown in tech is far faster than game consoles. These phones and tablets that are 'technically' inferior to a PS360 can do the same games right now... i.e. same/similar technologies. So while the tablets/phones won't have the exact same hardware in 2014, I'm sure we'll see the same games released. Basically, its taken longer for gaming to become something of interest on mobile devices, but once they were, the tech and games themselves have increased exponentially.

Its taken only two years for phones/tablets to catch Wii/PSV. Its only months away to catch PS360. Then another  year or 1.5 to catch what will then be current-gen in late 2014. Plus we have services like Onlive that already provide the same content so long as you have the bandwidth.