Ultra-low-end business laptops from 2015 with a mobile Intel Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, and integrated graphics still have a dramatically better gaming experience than the Pixel 7 Pro. Why?
By the way, this is even with the help of emulators. Without emulators, gaming would outright be impossible for most people
are you basing that comparison on anything in reality?
The very robust selection and extreme amount of fine-tuning of emulators on that really old business laptop vs… all Android gets. The only Sega hardware that is emulated on Android is the Dreamcast. For Saturn and below, there is nothing. Even weak IBM PCs just have a very robust library of games that smartphones have stopped making attempts to catch up to.
Technically Dreamcast emulation is superior on Android over anything else… but you can easily run Android apps on an IBM PC.
Take a game wrote for a pc and compare it to any mobile game.
Which is game has better graphics?
Which game has a better story?
Yeah the PC game will be better.
I meant the hardware comparison of some near decade old garbage vs a modern phone
I’m playing a game on a 1.5 year old Ipad and playing a 12 year old game on my pc. The 12 year old game still looks better. When I started playing that game on pc, I was playing on a 15 year old pc… That pc game still looks better than any mobile game that I’ve ever seen.
So yeah I’d stand by the statement that pc games will look better then mobile games. There’s always more power in the PC.
Dependent? It’s not dependent but targeted. That is the largest market for computers and computer accessories. That’s why the PC market is often targeted because the rest of the majority exists.
It always has been since the 90s. Although seeing as games are written for OS not for hardware architecture the reason things run like ass on a phone is because there will be a software translation layer getting the thing to work.
In addition, phone hardware is designed for power efficiency where laptop and desktop aren’t as pushed that for for power efficiency.
The 10 year old PC has a much much bigger power budget than a phone. It wasn’t until really recently that ARM got anywhere close to x86 performance.
While the phone technically possibly could be better, it would also drain in an hour or two if it was maxed out. And most people have crappy phones that can barely hold 60fps doing nothing so mobile games usually target the lower end devices to maximize the amount of potential players, while also remaining battery conscious.
There’s also just not that much demand. Nobody has space on their phones for a 120GB game, and nobody wants to play a AAA game on their phones because gaming on a phone sucks ass and if you’re going to dock the phone you might as well get a console.
Heat.
