Mobile gaming catching up to consoles?

[Landguy]

Captain_Tom said:

Landguy said:

Captain_Tom said:

WolfpackN64 said:
The new iPhones and Tegra K1 sporting devices have reached the levels of the Xbox 360 and PS3 in term of graphical power (around 200-270 Gflops), but they still haven't gotten to the Wii U (around 350 Gflops) and are FAR away from the PS4 and Xbox One (1.8 and 1.17 Tflops) by the time mobile devices catch up to them, newer and much more powerful consoles will have hit the market. Mobile devices will never catch up to current gen tech in time

Isn't it funny how people see these phones match 9 YEAR OLD technology and somehow that makes them almost caught up?

Isn't Destinay playable on both the 360 and PS3?

What's your point?  It looks incredibly worse.  I can get Skyrim playable on a $150 tablet with the right settings and mods, but that doesn't mean the hardware in it is as strong as a $1000 PC running it with Next Gen mods in 4K.

Most PC's that people use aren't much more powerful than the 360/PS3.  So, the minority of pc owners are the pc elite.  With last gen systems closing in on 275 million sold, why do we think that people aren't satisfied with them.  There are only 22-25 million Next gen systems in total.  People are more than satisfied with last gen.  The 9% that have gone next gen are the few that care.  For most(the casuals) gamers, last gen graphics will suffice for now and 2-4 years from now when the power has increased 2-3 fold again on these smartphones, the casuals will be satisfied with what they get again.  2-4 years after that, as the masses adopt 4k in droves, the smartphones will already be more than capable.

Point is, with diminishing returns on the graphical improvements of displays, the ability of portable devices to get to higher graphical capabilities will go faster than the advancements in display technology.  Now that the mobile market is exploding, game developers will take better advantage of these systems and produce better games.  The real holdback to most of the mobile games is the interface.  Without a good controller, games will always have a limit on mobile.  If in the near future a controller can simply connect via bluetooth to any phone and a universal system is in place for controller design within a mobile OS, the gaming arena will explode.