| kirby007 said: However the future of gaming is with Mobiles which will push graphics to the highest limits. No old medium, they offer the highest technology. Internet browsing and more importantly instant access to thousands upon thousands of games. and much cheaper to replace. |
A mobile device is limited to use 10W (smartphone) to around 15W (tablets). A console uses 200W and a PC can use easily 500W. The only way a device can outperform a another one that is more power hungry is with a more advanced tech. PCs use current tech, as PS4 and X1 do (you can easily note that PS360 are 10 to 15X weaker than the new consoles with more than half of the power consumption).
Using Moore's Law, you double the performance after 18 months (for CPU, memory is another history). So phones will be 16X more powerful in 6 years and will be 32X faster in 7.5 years, probably getting close to PS4 and X1, but only when their sucessors are already out. It's pure physics, pure math. That's the problem. Mobiles won't push graphics to the limit because they have restrict power demands. It's not possible. Right now, desktop and console GPUs uses the more current architecture, while mobile is several generations late (next Tegra promisses to change that, but NVidia underdelivered every single Tegra after Tegra 2, so let's wait). I made this calculations considering the same architecture for both, wich isn't the case right now and that only makes the gap larger. Phones don't offer the highest tech, they offer old GPU tech several gens behind to be more power efficient and a low power consumption, lower performance CPU tech coupled with low bandwidth memory and slow flash storage. Efficient, but not fast.
About price, why is it cheaper? Mobile phones aren't cheaper. A high end device (you want to push graphics to the limits) it's more expensive than a console that has a 5-7 years life. A phone has 2 or 3 years. Phones compete with handhelds (and even in this case, not exactly like that), not home consoles since one is used on the go and the other is connected to a 40-inch screen.
