CVG:The motto at Electronic Arts is 'transition is our friend', and there's no more appropriate a time to remember that than now.
Zynga today announced that it has appointed Frank Gibeau as Chief Executive Officer effective March 7.
Don Mattrick is gonna be so mad. He looks furious enough already.
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EA has filed notice with the Securities and Exchange Commission that as of yesterday, executive vice president of mobile games Frank Gibeau has departed the company. Gibeau was with EA for over 20 years, and served as the president of EA Labels before his transition to overseeing the lucrative mobile division.
EA Mobile head weighs in potential of Apple's latest, already has people prototyping for Watch
Frank Gibeau and his team at EA Mobile spent their Tuesday like a lot of other tech enthusiasts: Grumbling about the quality of Apple's stream of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch reveal.
The group gathered en masse in a conference room, as it does with every Apple reveal, to watch a broadcast that faded in and out (and occasionally came through in Chinese). But while the rest of us were gnashing our teeth in frustration, the mobile teams were already riffing on ideas about what they could do with the technology being introduced.
@imXify
I know, and I wish they stop with the BS.
They the same in the sense that both have CPUs, GPUs, RAM, a Motherboard, Storage, a case, etc... Yes these are facts, EA, Apple, etc...
I game on my phone often, but it's in no way comparable to the PS4 or XBO hardware wise, and in the case of the iPhone 6 it's not on par with the PS360 either.
I want what the guys at EA are smoking, it's like they are stoned 24/7. iPhones are not even the most powerful mobiles on the market, how should they even come close to outputting 1,84 tFLOPS when better devices fail miserably?
Even if they were on par, I still don't have any interest playing a console quality game on a stinking small screen... Speaking of which, I doubt that the iPhone games would even be at the level of console games.
Can anyone even picture a game like the last of us on an iPhone?? Lmfao
I think this discussion of cellphones catching up to consoles should be done already. People have spoken with their wallets by purchasing millions of PS4/Xbox One and Wii U consoles and there is no way in hell that true gamers are ever going to consider mobile platforms as gaming machines.
Mobile and tablet game needs to tank. We need more hardcore games or core game machines.
Apple's new A8 SOC has over 2 billion transistors which is seriously impressive considering an Intel Haswell CPU has only 1.4 billion. Intel's Haswell that includes the Iris Pro GPU weighs in around 2 billion. And we know that Iris Pro is pretty darn powerful for what it is and can do 831 gflops which is 1/2 as powerful as a PS4. If Apple's new A8 is faster than Iris Pro like I've read, then it could be pretty close to the Xbone in performance and since IOS is such a tiny operating system compared to these new consoles, the overhead must also be quite small.
Part of the reason why the A8 is able to be that powerful is it is manufactured using the latest 20nm process by TSMC. This greatly reduces its size as well as power consumption.
I'm not saying it's as fast as a PS4. But I have a feeling that this new chip is a lot faster than people seem to think it is. In fact, the iPhone 6 Plus is confirmed to render at 1242x2208 (3x retina) and downscale to 1080p which is it's display resolution. That means the new GPU has some serious juice.
Edit: The standard iPhone 6 uses a PowerVR GX6650 which puts out about 500gflops @ 400mhz. The thing is, the iP6 runs it's GPU at 650mhz, so the gflops will be substantially higher, close to 800gflops.
That being the case, the 6+ uses a 6-way compared to the standard 6's 4-way design. So add 50% to the flops which puts the 6+ at 1.2tflops.
Not bad for a phone. Last i checked, that was Xbone territory. And keep in mind... this new A8 chip is actually MODERN technology. It's not a 3 year old tech like AMD served up for these consoles.
@AndrewLB
LMAO, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh god.
"Part of the reason why the A8 is able to be that powerful is it is manufactured using the latest 20nm process by TSMC. This greatly reduces its size as well as power consumption."
That part is true, for it's size and power draw the A8 is a beastly little CPU, and comparable to many Dual Core desktop CPUs. The CPU and GPU are 25% and 50% more powerful than the A7 which are Apple's words. In real world performance the CPU should very well be 25% more powerful, but the GPU will be more like 30% (since real-world GPU performance is NEVER 100% of it's theoretical max).
However, the GPU portion of your comment is completely wrong GFLOP wise. Rumors are the A8 is using GX6630 which is simply adding 2 more GPU cores to it's A7 GPU (aka theoretical 50% boost), GX6450 (which makes a lot of sense seeing how they went with the 4-core version of the 6430 for the A7), or the GX6650 which is also possible.
The thing is the 6650 at best is on par with Tegra K1, which is nowhere near a 800 - 900 GFLOP GPU. At it's highest core clocks (1.2 GHz) it's a 500 GFLOP GPU, however, that level of power consumption won't work inside of a Phone, a Tablet possibly, a laptop absolutely. So going by the clocks you provided the A8's GPU should be about 170 GFLOPS for the iPhone 6 and around 270 GFLOPS for the iPhone 6+. At 300 MHz it runs at the same performance of the previous A7 115.2 GFLOPS. So at 400MHz it's highly likely that the 6650 is indeed the GPU, but with a 400MHz clock rate it's nowhere near PS360 performance let alone PS4 or XBO.
The Razer Edge Pro is a 10" $1,000 gaming tablet, and featuring a GT 640m (a near 500 GFLOP GPU at only 600MHz), i5 3317U, 4GB RAM. How on earth do you expect an iPhone 6 to outperform something like that with that small size and cost about $600 no contract.
Apple's iPhones now come with built-in Blu-Ray discs containing games of 50Gb each./s
@AndrewLB
The Xbox One has 5 billion transistors and it's weaker than the PS4.
When they said: "On par with current gen consoles" they meant the Wii U.
the last article states that these iphones wsill run games at higher res than NEXT GEN consoles. Lol not only it false since on the official site it clearly states that the iphone 6 will have a res of 1334×750 and the iphone Plus has a res of 1080p which and this is the res of current gen not NEXT GEN. also this really very laughable, iphones have to get real games to start with: http://9gag.com/gag/a1ZdoG2...
Are you all forgetting the fact that an Iphone 6 with only 16gb is $649 (without a contract) . If you add to the PS4 (which is $399) $250 worth of GPU and CPU. It will be on par with the High end expensive Gaming PC big time.
Yes and the Android master race will have 4k /s where does EA find people that dumb to work for them?
Then I expect games Arkham Knight to run and play just as well on a 720p iPhone 6 as a PS4... lmao who am I kidding.
When i see it hooked up to a 1080p monitor fully capable of running games like Infamous: Second son, Driveclub, Ryse, Forza Horizon 2 at the same frame and resolution as PS4/XBO then i'll believe it...
Not even. If they were that powerful we'd see more console games being ported over. The big limiting factor is that battery. Consoles don't have to worry about that.
"on par with next-generation consoles", so they mean on par with PS5 and other next-gen consoles. /s!
i highly doubt its even on par with a tegra K1. the A8 is STILL a dual core SoC, yet we are supposed to believe that the GPU is on the PS3/360 level??
no...just no
The CPU benchmarked barely better than iphone 5's, and the GPU wasn't much of an improvement either (what improvements there were have been attributed to the metal API more than the hardware). We might see Xbox 360 level visuals out of it, but I doubt it.
This is 2012 phone tech repackaged with an apple logo.
Leave it to a pathetic troll Rowdiustroll.. to start yet another XB1 vs Ps3 war…
i find that hard to believe?.. i know one thing for sure though and paraphrasing a youtuber, mobile games are basically throw away games.. theyre there for your 5 minuet bus ride and thats all. and know most games that aren't free to play dont last long on the app store, so good luck with winning over the people who like to come home and play on a wide screen tv or monitor of a game that uses buttons
Unfortunately the games on the mobile phone will run out of space before they can play big games that currently require up to the size limit of a Bluray. No one is going to pay Apple's GB prices just to install a hefty 40GB game on the smartphone :D
No kidding! The 128GB iPhone6 Plus is $949 for crying out loud. Let me see here... PS4 has 500GB HDD.... That would put a 500GB iPhone6 around $2000!! Then you have no physical controller, no customizable OS, only 1GB RAM... These articles are just so ridiculous
dont forget battery life, iphones are notorious for having terrible battery and thats before gaming
I've owned every iPhone except the 3G and 4, along with 2 of the largest iPods and I've never had a problem that needed to "repair". That's usually why Apple products do so well. Maybe I'm just lucky idk
You're not lucky. I've owned an iphone 3gs, 4, and 5 and the only repair i've ever had to make was due to a dumba$$ friend of mine having my phone on his lap while riding shotgun in my car, only to get out during a rain storm... dumping the thing into 4" of water. It killed the microphone, lock switch, and the speakerphone.
Half the people I know with Android phones break their screens almost yearly, and have all sorts of problems because they're cheap plastic phones. Typically the people who break iphones are clumsy, irresponsible, etc and the failures are always "user error".
I rarely ever see iphones that broke from defects. It's always due to abuse.
Tell that to my crazy old white MacBook. It was given to me in terrible physical condition in 2008. I hitch hiked with it for 2 years. It's seen rain, snow, extreme heat, below freezing cold, beer spilled all over it, wine spilled all over it, and around 2011 it fell off a chair. Grabbing for it I caught it by the screen and it completely detached from the keyboard.
Now u have to cram the screen back into place every time u turn it on, but aside from having to purchase a new battery this year it is still totally functional. I gave it to my mother in 2012 and she still uses it every day. It will not die!
lol Please, when I see MGSV running on the Iphone 6 and you can play more than a minute without the iphone sh**y *** battery dying in a minute then I will buy an apple product. Cellphones can barely run candy crush without the battery life being drained like a kid drinking a juice box.
Again, Cellphones will NEVER BE RELEVANT in the gaming industry.
Hardcore gamers: It won't be relevant cause of our ignorance.
Everyone else: It's gonna be relevant. Sales tell the story.
You: It's relevant because I can't read.
The topic is about a 720p iPhone supposedly being on par with next-gen consoles. Not sales.
Seriously, if 20+GB games like MGSV, Arkham Knight, perform and play just as well on a 5 inch touchscreen as a PS4 or Xbox One, then I'll be proven wrong.
I'm sorry to say, but it's because of people like you that I'm losing faith in gaming... :\
OK I like to see the giant iPhone have games like Uncharted 4.
:)
LMAO
Is this article a joke?
While console will be at a stand still in technology for awhile, cellphones will get better. Guess who is gonna win? Not hard using common sense. You ever put two and two together on why Sony is creating Playstation Now?
It may not be hard to figure out by using common sense, but it must be hard for you to use common sense in the first place.
Mobile can't- it simply can't- actually catch up to consoles. There are quite a few good reasons why this is the case, like optimization, battery life, and so on, but I'm sure your common sense doesn't need to account for those things, right?
@tman7302 You're seriously delusional, man.
Only a dummy would agree with this article.
Who the heck is going to play console quality games on a 5.5 inch screen?
That alone eliminates any possibility that the iPhone can replace consoles.
Its going to take a long time for mobile phones to catch up with current gen systems. They are not even on par with last gen ones.
I don't think they've even caught up with last gen yet tbh. Some of the recent tech demos do look nice but they're not as computationally intensive as they may look.
but the new iphones arent even the pinnacle of mobile phones such as the HTC M8 and Samsung Note 4.
Say what? Are you actually kidding me? When on earth can a PHONE handle as much processing as a home-console? Unless it's referring to the Vita...Try again.
You know the vita was designed around tech that is used in smart phones. The GPU is a quad version of a GPU in one of the apple iPhones. Look it up.
More Apple hype, this is hilarious. This is the same company that promises every phone to be a 200% upgrade from the previous one and better than the competition and they are YEARS behind. Just now getting 1080p? Just now going above 4inches? Android has had that for years now, Android has also had Quad Core processors and Octocore processors in the international versions of their phones while Apple is still stuck on dual core CPU's. #Truth
Not to meantion the absurdly closed off ecosystem. Ive been trying to tell my friends and family this so they stop overspending on overhyped apple products.
I will buy this new Iphone because i need a new phone, but i'm not crazy to think that will play games like the consoles.
So has anyone used or seen the new iPhone 6 or are we just going to automatically laugh this off for reasons unknown?
@dafegamer:
So has anyone used or seen the new iPhone 6 or are we just going to automatically laugh this off for reasons unknown?
iPhone 6 that could run Killzone Shadowfall or Ryse?
C'mon wake up from your sweet dreams
You can already tell from the details released. There is now way this is going to have enough power to run something similar to what you see on PS4 or XboxOne.
"Console quality graphics" is a statement that is used frequently by mobile developers. Look at games like Modern Combat 4 and 5. Look at Gameloft, they often use it themselves. The games never look console quality, though. I admit mobile devices can produce some sexy games, Dead Trigger and Real Racing for example. But they are far from console quality.
More like we will laugh at you for assuming that the iPhone 6 is on par with next gen systems.
:l
Seriously just use common sense and you will see why the iPhone 6 can't be on par with consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.
So has anyone used or seen the new iPhone 6 or are we just going to automatically laugh this off for reasons unknown?
I pre-ordered the iPhone 6+ last night and while I think it's going to be an amazing phone, it's not going to come anywhere close to the likes of the PS4 for an overall gaming experience... No smartphone is.
Mobile gaming is its own niche thing. I'm not really into it. At any given time, I maybe only have 3-5 iOS games installed on my iPhone. That's what my PS Vita is for.
Translation: "for the price of the iphone you get both next gen consoles".
They are on pair but only in price so he isn't lying is just a little mistake xD
You got to be kidding me, apparently because the screen is 1080p they can both output at 1080p which means they must be just as powerful!
Good luck trying to play games like
Halo at 60fps, or Uncharted 4 at 1080p60fps
Really. This article its a joke . But when apple show us the real power between his new device and xbxone and ps4 at the same tim3 will talk. So dont leaves to public that fuck... news
can I hook it up to my big screen, grab a controller and play destiny on it?!?.... I didn't think so
I personally think even its spec is on par, but playing is the same ?
DON'T THINK SO.
Imaging if you're playing Final Fantasy on iPhone (or even iPad), it's not completely controllable like Dualshock with more and more button needed to play. iPad can serve this type of playing? NO WAY.
In 2016-2018, you will see phones hooked to tv sets with the ability to stream any game on it. of course with a wireless gamepad. Onlive proved that it was possible to use the cloud and stream heavy graphical games like L.A. Noire, Batman Arkham Asylum, even the PC version of Crysis minus mods. To think that is going to stop there is ridiculous. By 2016-2017 the phones will really take over consoles
Hmmmm didn't Onlive proved that it was possible to play Batman Arkham Asylum on any phone or mobile device......,,
The ubiquitous phone to many, may be a jack of some trades, and I'm fine by that. What annoys me though is the over simplification of it. Or rather, as I would call it, the marginalization off a program into an app. Put simply, Mobiles try to be a bit of everything.
A phone, by itself, from what I understand can do many things. However, it cannot deliver 7.1 channels of discrete sound, Offer a couch relaxing view numbering dozens of inches, Nor can it process the full weight of effects that are usually present in the subsequent resolutions. That's what dedicated hardware is for.
Or...
The army swiss knife is great, but not in every scenario.
Gateway MT6706 2008
What the hell is this guy smoking socks? The GPU portion is nowhere near current gen. Then factor in the RAM speed let alone the amount of RAM. iPhone Plus only has what 2 gigs of RAM? EA might as well say okay guys we will be making mobile games now cause thats where the money is
You guys do know their is a mobile phone capable of pushing PS4 graphics right, its called the Xperia Z3 but thats only because it streaming those graphics.
They could shoot lasers and make your coffee but, no one is going to buy one over a PS4 or an Xbone. so why the comparison???
Even if it's 2x-3x faster than current gen consoles.. that touch screen controls is very very limiting , the phones limited storage is also a big minus...
This article is BS. I've seen people saying that it's maybe on par with the likes of PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but I don't it could even compare to that! PlayStation 2, at most will be the closest the iPhone 6/6 Plus is going to come to a console experience.
That is putting the bar too low. The Vita exceeds PS2 graphics, and so does these phones. Approximately last gen maybe.
Can someone direct me to the home of the guy making this claim? I just wanna chat with the idjit. I promise I won't bite
to my knowledge, no last gen game aka PS3/360 has been released for the iphone, the nearest i think was xcom, considering the nature of the game, it made sense for cell phone gaming buts thats it
Also bioshock and walking dead. Which walking dead won game of the year 2012. I played it on my iphone 5 at the time. Well deserved win for that game.
I'm not defending phones vs consoles that's a terrible comparison. My phone entertains me on the train to work and my console entertains me at home. It's that simple. I've upgraded to the iphone 6 plus with network provider so just waitin on launch now for delivery.
Im glad to hear that EA ate their own SH*T about the Wii U and are now prepared to support it when the time is right and most likely that time is early 2014!!!!