javi741 said:
Yea I remember how dumb alot of people looked in the early 2010s thinking that "consoles are gonna be a thing of the past and people will just game on mobile games". I would see even bigger gaming youtubers like Reviewtechusa make a video in 2013 saying that by the end of the 8th Generation consoles will be dead and people will just game on smartphones just cause he was playing a basic ass shooter from gameloft with bad touch controls on a mid range smartphone on the TV, here's a video of it right here and it's hilarious to see how poorly that take ended up being lmao: https://youtu.be/3i-OUoCOIn0
Ngl when I was first introduced to smartphone games at that time I thought there mightve been a possibility that they would eventually take over consoles, but then I quickly realized that there was little to no chance it would've after I started playing the games.
While it's true that smartphones can become quite powerful machines capable of running console like games, the biggest problem I had with mobile games is the dreaded and horrible touch controls, it's hard to play any serious or precise playing games with touch controls which was a huge turn off for me to ever believe that they could take over console games. While yes, I know that Bluetooth controllers exist that could connect to smartphones as well as ways to connect to the TV, but just connecting and buying a separate controller to play games on a smartphone was way more of a hassle for most of the general consumer base to care to buy and play on a controller for smartphone. Also it's good to mention that the online infrastructure for smartphone gaming is shit and alot of the games performance wise just can't compete with what's on consoles because smartphones with gaming will always be at a disadvantage even with great specs cause they won't have cooling fans so games can't run at full throttle, also games use only a small fraction of the full processing power on smartphones cause the smartphone OS utilizes so much of the processing power just for notifications and managing a ton of other background applications unlike a console which has a much simpler OS which allows games to use a much larger fraction of the processing power, and since mobile developers prioritize making their games compatible with as many smartphones as possible, they would purposely reduce the game's true performance potential just so it could be compatible with older smartphones.
And the performance gap between smartphones and consoles is still big enough to where people would still much rather play on console, which led to less developers making console like games on smartphones which led to a constant cycle that led the mobile looking less and less appealing with less major 3rd party games coming over. |
Lol RTUSA has always been a dumbfuck. PC elitist with the most bog standard shit taste in games. He lacks any understanding of basically anything. Not to mention he was stupid enough to buy into the Amico scam. Anyone with half a brain saw through that shit day 1. Esp after Coleco Chameleon.
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