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The future of gaming hardware

avalon1000avalon1000 Member UncommonPosts: 791

So Nvidia shows the incredible Tegra 5 at siggraph. The writing is on the wall. Devs will have to pay attention to Android as an OS for MMO's in the future. Will we see AAA titles ported to Android?

 

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  • Four0SixFour0Six Member UncommonPosts: 1,175
    There are "MMO"s on Android.
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,531

    Will Tegra 5 be any better than the Temash chips that AMD will sell you today?  Temash can also run Windows, which may not be an advantage for a lot of mobile uses, but it sure is if you want to play MMORPGs.

    Also, Nvidia's demonstration today was highly deceptive.  They can get great performance for a tablet by clocking it at 1 GHz, or they can make it use 2 W by clocking it very low, but they can't do both at once.

  • Four0SixFour0Six Member UncommonPosts: 1,175
    Originally posted by Quizzical

    Will Tegra 5 be any better than the Temash chips that AMD will sell you today?  Temash can also run Windows, which may not be an advantage for a lot of mobile uses, but it sure is if you want to play MMORPGs.

    Also, Nvidia's demonstration today was highly deceptive.  They can get great performance for a tablet by clocking it at 1 GHz, or they can make it use 2 W by clocking it very low, but they can't do both at once.

    Funny how so very often power has a direct link to performance. Although recent and ongoing technological advancement has increased efficiency in the end it still comes down to pushing the gas pedal all the way to the floor so to speak. Just like in the Prius, when you do that the millage goes to shit.

  • RidelynnRidelynn Member EpicPosts: 7,383

    EA (love them or hate them) just released their quarterly earnings.

    http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/23/ea-made-more-sales-on-ios-than-any-other-platform-last-quarter/

    Their top income stream: Apple.

    Not to get into a Android vs iOS discussion, because that's not the point. The point is that mobile/tablet gaming will, if not already has, eclipsed other forms of the genre. If that's where the money is being spent by the consumer, that's what the publishers will chase, and where we will see the developers putting more of their focus and time toward.

    This is just one distributor (albeit a very large one). If you read further into their earnings, EA made more on In-App purchases/DLC than it did from actual game sales, which is also somewhat of a black omen (at least from my perspective). So there's a lot of different ways to interpret this, but I think it's clear that ARM-based hardware clearly has a future in gaming, and that gameing isn't married to a Windows operating system. PC sales were a very, very small part of EA's overall earnings. Social gaming (Facebook, etc), which had been very big just a couple of years ago, had a clear downward trend.

    But yeah, this has been "the future" for a while - I don't think PC gaming will go away entirely, but it's becoming more and more a niche rather than main stream. Then again, just like "social gaming" was all the rage 5 years ago, maybe we'll see the same thing with the mobile gaming - the "next big thing" could be just around the corner and we haven't even imagined it yet. I think there are some clear indicators though - even if that future isn't tablet/phone based, it will clearly not be tethered to a desk, and that still bodes poorly for Intel, and very well for companies using ARM.

  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

    I don't expect anything great out of Android or iOS because they are just not good OSs. They are popular yes, but capable of running a game well and being popular are two different things. The code base is fundamentally flawed in both these OSes as they are an order of magnitude slower than other OSs.

    If NVidia really wanted a successful Tegra implementation, they would be working on Windows RT, Windows Phone, or WebOS as they make much better use of the hardware.

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