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RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 1 month agoI have had my phone for 7 years now and recently replaced the battery for 20 bucks. I don’t really understand the need for fast af phones when everything already works smooth as butter. What are people doing on their phones that needs that much power?
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Mobile gaming.
Lemmy isn’t really the iPad baby generation’s demographic.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
are mobile games actually good or are you referring to emulation?
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
“Good” is subjective, but mobile gaming is huge.
It’s an interesting read.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s a fair point. Mobile gaming is a fairly broad spectrum and perhaps I should have differentiated casual, lower demanding games from high fidelity ones.
Like, I know cod mobile was decently popular (and maybe still is), I would consider this one higher fidelity. I would be quick to question whether these games are actually good, though. The flappy birds of the segment on the other hand probably dont need much graphics throughput.
Both segments are brimming with predatory monetisation. The only value I personally see when it comes to gaming on a phone is via emulators, source ports, indie gems like shattered pixel dungeon etc.
Though, on the topic of emulation (and to contradict my earlier comment about the need for higher perf) you can leverage box86/64 and Winulator to play fairly recent desktop windows games on your phone.
A key caveat is that the experience is contingent on the gfx umd quality for the SOC vendor, Qualcomm seem okay here but others may suffer, but it seems we’re gradually reaching the possibility of having phones as our primary computing devices.