BenjaminO A very interesting topic, but it’s actually easy to answer if we evaluate certain things.
The reign of consoles (and PCs) is absolute and will never, or at least not in the near or medium future, be overshadowed or replaced by a phone or tablet. But let me tell you why. Let’s use an example with the newest “portable” console, the Nintendo Switch 2.
The chip that Nvidia designed for the Switch 2 is powerful, not to mention that it has input Tensor cores. This gives it an advantage because it can handle desalinating and ray tracing technologies, something that the SND 8 Elite (which the tablet comes with) can also do, but at a less developed level, so to speak, meaning not with the same performance.
And before you tell me, you’re comparing a console chip with a mobile chip. Well, wasn’t that the question?
Many people get carried away by the Qualcomm SoC or the Redmagic R3 chip, or simply by the fact of saying there is that it has 24 GB of LPDDR5 X Ultra RAM but to tell the truth the consoles do not occupy that much RAM or with that much power (apart from the fact that a mobile’s RAM is more “pro”, the architecture and energy efficiency are different compared to a console or PC) and they forget about optimization, you don’t believe me, trying to run it is not a The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdome on a phone, from the start you are going to need to push your mobile to the limit, added to the fact that you have to use third-party software, that is, an emulator, investing time in configurations so that in the end it goes the same or worse than on a conventional switch, on the other hand, on the Nintendo console you just buy the game, put in the cartridge and that’s it, without configurations, without wasting time, without third-party software and although I put the SW2 as an example it is not necessary, in a normal NSW it runs perfectly, the same with third-party games Fortnite runs well on a regular Nintendo Switch, albeit at 30 fps, but with PHYSICAL CONTROLS, which is an extra investment if you want to use them on a tablet, which is already expensive. Now, adding the price of a controller to that makes the gamer experience better than having a console on a phone or tablet.
There are native AAA Android games, such as Blasphemous, but again, the gameplay is inferior no matter how many touch triggers you have. Touch controls will never replace the premium feel of pressing a physical button. The issue of redmagic cooling I already mentioned in the review I did of the Golden Saga and it is that IT DOES NOT LOWER THE TEMPERATURE, it keeps it at bay as long as you have the fan on automatic so that it turns on from the beginning and that with the maximum configuration because if you leave it with the stock of cooling depending on the demand of the processor, the temperatures will shoot through the roof, not to mention that its “maintenance” is not at all friendly and believe me if you don’t take care of it in less than 6 months you will have a beautiful paperweight with RGB lights, something that in consoles the maintenance is much easier and finding spare parts too.
In conclusion, the Tablet is powerful, I do not detract from it and it is excellent for mobile GAMING, but in general any GAMING phone is far from supplanting a console as such.
