ARM Sees Mobile As the Future Gaming Platform of Choice 97
Stoobalou writes with an interview in Thinq with a few folks from ARM on their plans for the future of embedded graphics. From the article:
"'If you're looking at the visual experience that we can deliver on a mobile, in terms of the capabilities of the devices that are on the market today, increasingly it is visually outstanding — but we need to do more maths, because we have an increasing screen resolution and we have increasing content complexity, and we have to do it all in pretty low power. So, if we look at where we were a few years ago, if you take the benchmarks of a VGA display and typical low-res content — all of a sudden, by the time you get to a 4K screen and some of the complexity of tesselated stuff you see in DX11 today, you're talking about a 500x increase in performance.' ... 'We're still maintaining that 1W power envelope within your mobile device, yet being expected to deliver 500 times the performance,' Hickman added. That's a major undertaking, but one which the next generation of Mali processors will work towards.'
All of the graphics development in the embedded world is nice, but it is disheartening to see the lack of source code for all of the new mobile GPUs.
Re:Whose choice? (Score:2, Insightful)
Hey Mario, let's see how far you can fly in real life, you little dago bastard.
in other news (Score:5, Insightful)
Console manufacturers see consoles as future gaming platform of choice.
Re:Whose choice? (Score:4, Insightful)
There are few very good games on my droid / rooted nook that I quite enjoy. Robodefense. battleheart. game dev story. they're cheap, they're addictive, and they're fun.
They're not even close to the same thing as starcraft, mass effect, world of warcraft, modern warfare, etc.
They're almost different genres, and I think that's how we should see them. They're as different from one-another as holywood blockbuster movies are from semi-professional youtube videos. Why can't I go to the theater to watch Captain America and then come home and watch epic mealtime, and enjoy both on their own merits? why try and make one into the other?
Keep em separate. enjoy them both on their own merits. don't try and merge them.
Re:Dear Arm (Score:4, Insightful)
99 cent games that are crappy clones of mediocre arcade games from the early 90's will be all the rage
Nostalgia will only carry you so far. And I say that as someone who has been gaming since the Atari 2600 was the cutting-edge. Most people have fond memories of old games and may get a kick out of playing them again for a while (yeah, I got half-an-erection the first time I played "Defender" again on a modern console). But the nostalgia wears off fast. And at the end of the day, most gamers are going to come back to the modern games--no matter how much they try to convince themselves with that "Games used to be better back in MY day" crap. I've played in every era of gaming and games today are the best, period. All my fond memories of The Bards Tale and Pool of Radiance aren't going to make them better than Oblivion.