Unreal Enigne 4 demo on smartphones (nexus 5)

[VanceIX]

famousringo said:

VanceIX said:
Mobile phones are powerful enough to match PS2, maybe even the original Xbox in terms of power. Only problem is that touchscreens are a horrible control scheme, and no developer is going to spend millions of dollars to bring over modern games when the only way they would sell is free-to-play or for $5 max. Square Enix ports over older games, but most of them are over $10 and can't come close to matching the huge revenue that their F2P games have.

Seeing as how mobile devices have been running one of the Xbox's best-looking games, KotOR, for almost a year now at resolutions more than four times what the Xbox was capable of, I think they might be a teeny bit more powerful than the Xbox.

One thing that mobile and console gaming have in common: Graphics are not the problem.

KotOR was super optimized for mobile when it was ported, and relatively forgiving in the graphics department. You won't see games like Halo 2 or Ninja Gaiden Black any time on mobile soon, they are just too demanding, even if they tried to optimize.