Forbes - The mobile market continues to evolve at a rapid rate with new smartphones and tablets being introduced by Apple, Samsung, Acer, Asus, HP, Toshiba, Vizio and other big companies at a brisk (almost monthly) pace. Samsung is the latest big consumer electronics company to one-up the competition with its Galaxy S4.
With the advances in processing power in these mobile devices (and Moore’s Law), mobile devices – and the games being developed for them – are quickly catching up with what current generation consoles can do. In the US, the Galaxy S4 will sport a 1.9GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processor that has already been tested by Laptop Mag and put up there with the new HTC One. When you factor in the benchmarks set by NVIDIA Tegra 4 technology, which was demonstrated at CES 2013 with new games like Dead Trigger II, the gap between consoles and portable games is closing even faster.
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EDIT: Damn, that Snapdragon 600 is REALLY apparent with Need for Speed. Not a SINGLE stutter or tear in that gameplay!
"Sigh",
I will never understand articles like this one.
Are they seriously comparing a CONSOLE! with a PHONE! did you see the last thing I wrote? A PHONE!!!
So what if the S.G.4 CPU/GPU can power a nuclear plant by itself... who cares? People don't realise that Specs like this ones you find in your smartphone are USELESS...
Who is going to sit down in his living room and get his smartphone out of his/hers pocket and start playing Battlefield 4 on their tiny 5" screen?
Coming up in the next article...
"How does Toyota Prius compete with the PS4"
Stay tuned...
EDIT: whoever tells me that "you can connect your phone with your tv and play from there"
I will slap him with a shovel...
But seriously no it want compete with PS4. All the loyal playstation gamers will stay with Sony and the PS4. Besides it would compete more with the Vita than the PS4. Either way it's a phone not a dedicated gaming device.
Game-wise, you can keep throwing up a racing game and say it's the same, but they can't do the same with the plethora of games available on the current gen consoles.
We won't be seeing Halo, Gears of War, inFamous, Uncharted, Tomb Raider, Skyrim, or anything of the like on the phones. So, it may compete when it comes to Indie titles of a sort and some basic games (which are fun to play, don't get me wrong), but it won't be a competitor for the plethora of games we play on consoles now.
not to mention ps4 has awesome exclusives.
But making a title comparing it to ps4 is either a joke (a good one) or a completely obnoxious remark.
I mean the Vita is more powerful than the S4 yet it still struggles to compete even with PS3 a lot...
Come on....
Just hits!
Fyi, if you want a truly unique console, the Nvidia Shield. Play Android + stream PC games with precision to it.
Good luck!
No it isn't
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The S4 has 8 cores, the Vita has 4
The S4 has a 441 ppi screen, the Vita has 220ppi
S4 - 2GB RAM
Vita - 512MB RAM
EVERY game on Vita can be done on the S4(save for the back touch pad). But we will never see these games because we don't have an abundance of these top tier devs working on smartphones.
Don't get it twisted, these games CAN run on smartphones easily.
Just bc smartphones can run them doesn't mean they should.
This article is like saying a razor is competing with a lawn mower. Sure they can both cut grass but one is way more dedicated to the task then the other is.
The 8 core is NOT a real 8 core, it's a cluster chip. It uses 1 1.6 GHZ quad and a second 1.2 ghz quad.
Considering the LACK of apps that use even 4 cores, the extra 4 that the S4 has means nothing, especially in gaming. In which the vita still has one of the most powerful graphics chip on the market (mobile).
Fyi, the Vita has 512 Ram + 128 Dedicated video ram, also has 2.0 ghz CPU, which means that clock per clock the vita is still faster.
Also, no game will generally ever use the potential of a smartphone because most companies don't want to invest in a game that only costs 1-5$ or is F2p, and they can't charge 40$ for a game like on Vita. A good example is Nfs Most wanted, which god WAYYYY more quality control on the Vita than mobile release.
So don't sport things that you want to be heard over the truth. There are many factors at play here.
Let's not forget that Vita is a dedicated gaming device, which means a lot of the resources can be used towards gaming only.
It's funny how you show the cpu cores, which have little to no big effect in games to make your argument. Clearly your polishing a turd more than you want to. Instead of just posting about it, you might've done the research to know the fact that 4 cores are minor cores used for background process and small tasks while the others are the actual 4 cores used for performance.
yes there is definitely a benefit, but only for optimized hardware and isolated or synthetic benchmarks.
Honestly this is like comparing a laptop with integrated Graphics with a gaming console. I mean even if the Laptop has an 8 core cpu, but a crappy integrated video card....games will still look much better on console.
It shocks me how many bubbles you have....
do you think that the 8 cores of S4 is like the 8 core Jaguar in the PS4 or something? lol
this octacore chip was announced last year if I'm not mistaken and there will be not a single time all 8 cores will work together because the lower clocked 4 cores are used as the unload bay for lower end and minor process to save energy and when at full capacities, only the higher clocked 4 cores will be used while the lower clocked ones go idle. the S4 is basically a QUAD CORE device with a twist!
the only reason it's used is because only Samsung makes it and they want to promote it so other makers want to use it too! the S4 is more an advertisement tool/tech demo than a real 'upgrade' from S3! just look at it...at a glance, it's just like a slightly bigger S3 or slightly smaller Note2...you choose! I have the S3 so I know I won't get the S4 if I want to upgrade as personally I think the likes of Xperia Z and HTC One looks more appealing than this cheaply built S4! that's the sole reason I don't like iPhones and now the S series is taking the same approach!
and comparing the S4 to the PS4 is just SAD because it can't even beat the Vita heads on in gaming capabilities it's not even a contest!
I am afraid, the S4 will face with similar fate as iPhone5 and though I think it will still sell very well but I doubt we'll see another 20mil unit sold in 100 days thing like the S3 was!
Take dead trigger, for example. Fun for an hour but quickly becomes repetitive. At about level 10 it becomes damn near impossible to progress without buying credits..as mission rewards are laughably bad. So the game never rewards your efforts, and even when you pay, you're not getting your money's worth.
Interesting isn't it...
Bunch of retro or more modern ports and cheap clones on rail arent going to do squat in that area , and years later , that's what mobile gaming is still stuck with
Seriously, though, smartphones and tablets can't yet offer Vita-like gaming, so there's no way they're skipping to home consoles. And, as I've said many times before, the only way to do that is to add physical buttons, which is a step BACKWARDS in evolution for these devices.
Interesting times...and they've yet to end.
As I see it its a win win for everyone that like to play games. More options is not a bad thing at all.
But comparing something like this to the power and type of games for a PS3 or PS4 just don't work.
PS : i prefer the xperia Z too , i have no need for the gazillion additionnal octo power
At best the 3DS and PS Vita, but consoles no.
HUE