EA - "iPhone 6 On-par with Xbox One and PS4"

[Bill Killer]

Gaming as we knew it is dying anyway in general.

People were speculating that this might be the last traditional console cycle.

And given the current console and PC gaming sales, you and the rest of these people are wrong.

 

[MICHAELSD]

And given the current console and PC gaming sales, you and the rest of these people are wrong.

Only when phones are capable of more than the current gen will this happen. In 5 years the Axx chip could reach that goal. I don't think we're going to be seeing a full Call of Duty soon, but if the 360 can handle it then iPhone 6 would be somewhere between the 360 and One.

 

[Bill Killer]

Only when phones are capable of more than the current gen will this happen. In 5 years the Axx chip could reach that goal. I don't think we're going to be seeing a full Call of Duty soon, but if the 360 can handle it then iPhone 6 would be somewhere between the 360 and One.

You're under the impression that gaming hardware development remains stagnant.

Clearly you don't follow the trends of PC gaming.

 

[MICHAELSD]

You're under the impression that gaming hardware development remains stagnant.

Clearly you don't follow the trends of PC gaming.

The previous 360/PS3 cycle was very long. I'd imagine we'd see a PS5 sooner than before but at the end of the current cycle iPhone could catch up to the current gen.

 

[Bill Killer]

The previous 360/PS3 cycle was very long. I'd imagine we'd see a PS5 sooner than before but at the end of the current cycle iPhone could catch up to the current gen.

The previous cycle was very long. And it produced the highest revenues for the video game industry ever.

Smartphone gaming has its purpose, but even if the tech eventually matches, the practicality of playing a game like The Last of Us or GTA on an iPhone just doesn't lend itself to the same appealing gameplay that consoles and PC can.

I played GTA Vice City on PS2 and tried the iOS version. The iOS version is unplayable. Touchscreens don't work.

And quite frankly, I'd rather play them on a 27" - 75" screen instead.

 

[MICHAELSD]

The previous cycle was very long. And it produced the highest revenues for the video game industry ever.

Smartphone gaming has its purpose, but even if the tech eventually matches, the practicality of playing a game like The Last of Us or GTA on an iPhone just doesn't lend itself to the same appealing gameplay that consoles and PC can.

I played GTA Vice City on PS2 and tried the iOS version. The iOS version is unplayable. Touchscreens don't work.

And quite frankly, I'd rather play them on a 27" - 75" screen instead.

With a gamepad and a 5.5" screen at a handheld distance it would feel similar.

 

[TJ82]

I'm tired of bootcamping to play games and because of it, I haven't been gaming for around 8 months, though I did try Titanfall for a day.

I'm super-keen on seeing what sort of gaming I can do on the 6+. Even prepared to get a separate controller for it.

Some fun RPG or survival horror titles would be ace.

 

[bdb23]

No, it's not even close... and EA is full of complete idiots, and anyone who knows anything about gaming knows not to listen to anything that company says...

Here's a real article comparing the gpu/cpu/memory... and trust me it's not even close. iPhone 6 is closer to sega genesis than ps4.

From the article:

In terms of raw GPU power, the PS4 has somewhere in the region of 10 times more power than the iPhone 6. The iPhone’s Cyclone CPU cores are probably quite similar to the PS4′s Jaguar CPU cores in terms of processing power — but the PS4 has eight of them, versus just two in the A8/iPhone 6.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/190105-does-the-iphone-6-actually-have-console-quality-graphics

Also, shouldn't really be the goal for apple to compete with these... iphone's are portable devices, xbox1's and ps4's are not. Might as well compare your macbook pro to your iphone cpu/gpu also while you're at it. Much better comparison is iphone6 to vita/3ds...other handheld portable gaming devices.