Unreal Enigne 4 demo on smartphones (nexus 5)

[VanceIX]

famousringo said:

VanceIX said:

famousringo said:

VanceIX said:

iPad games used scaling... on the iPad 3. Because the pixels were quadrupled but GPU performance only doubled compared to the iPad 2. Once the iPad 4 shipped, there was no need to scale anymore. That means NOVA, Infinity Blade, Real Racing, all run at native resolution on the two latest generations of iPad.

Even on the iPad 3, games used the doubled performance to render at a native resolution 40% higher than 1024 x768 (roughly four times Xbox resolution). Please stop spreading your misconceptions.

These are not misconceptions. The vast majority of the games are designed to run on the iPhone's resolution. Games like NOVA, Infinity Blade, and Real Racing are able to meet that native resolution because they are severely dumbed-down compared to console games. NOVA has performance issues and is nothing compared to Halo 2, Infinity Blade is just moving in a linear path, with no player control for exploration other than selecting left or right, and Real Racing can't even compare with Forza or Grand Turismo, it's a pretty game with no real challenge other than the horrendous freemium model that makes it unplayable after an hour. 

Nothing of which has anything to do with the "power" of the hardware.

For fun, I thought I'd see if I could find a geekbench score for a coppermine Celeron 733 like the one used in the Xbox. Sadly, geekbench's history isn't ancient enough to have CPUs from 2000, but I see some not-quite-so-ancient Celerons scoring a little under 500...

The same as a first-generation iPad.

Like I said before, that power means nothing when it can't devote most of it for gaming. Other parts of the hardware like battery and lack of fans hold it back more than anything. Yes, put an A7 chip in a dedicated gaming box and you would be able to crush the Xbox. A mobile platform, in a small shell that has to manage an entire ecosystem that goes far beyond gaming along with a battery that will only last so long, and it is impossible to develop console-quality games to for the hardware.