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sergiodaly said:
Profrektius said:

Factor in that Xbox One and Ps4 did not use the best hardware available at the time of release, and that the top smartphones cost at least twice as much as the consoles.

Doesn't matter that the hardware was the best or mid-range or whatever. ARM and mobile makers love to spout this nonsense when the energy is not there in the mobile battery to pull those kind of processing power. My phone cost the same as 2 ps4 but i bet it cost sony (Xperia phone) less than what one ps4 cost. And the soc is usually like a 1/5 of total cost for a phone so your argument is not correct. 

The Mobile chips have become 75% more efficient in the last two years. To a significant degree due to going down to 16nm, but it's still notable. They will hit a wall eventually (or slow down) but for now, there seems to be steady progress in mobile power.