Comment on [Discussion] Would you buy a Steam smart phone?
gegil@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Mobile sucks. Smartphones are just too limited for real gaming. First problem is the hardware; you cant just put a desktop or laptop processors into a mobile device. Second is a small screen, which is very difficult to use for touchscreen controls and simply too small to actually see what is being displayed.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Define “real” gaming.
There’s plenty of excellent games that can run on a toaster, and can run on a tiny screen
gegil@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
By real games i mean pc games. There are plenty of various open source lauchers from github which can run real pc games on android. But the problem remains: either bad performance, as the game is not optimised for mobile hardware, or terrible touchscreen controls, as the pc games might require a lot of keys to play.
For example, i can play minecraft java edition on android using zalith launcher, but some medium modpacks may not work due to lack of memory or unsupported mods, and playing it using touchscreen is very difficult. Unlike some other games, minecraft java edition isnt really designed about controllers, and even with dedicated mods which add support for them, arent really useful.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Sounds like gamerbro elitism to me tbh.
I didn’t know that those billions of games on every other device through the last 56 years were actually imaginary. That’s fascinating!
gegil@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
I dont think i understand what do you mean.