• erwan@lemmy.ml
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    Seriously, there are people buying phones to play high specs games on it?

    There are platforms that are so much better than phones for gaming, and most people playing games on their phones are playing small F2P crap anyway.

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      Pixel software features are cool but being weaker than the Snapdragon 888 is embarrassing for the high price they’re charging.

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      1. Games are not fungible.

      2. Even the Switch or Deck are not convenient to carry around every day.

      Personally, Android is not in my top 3 preferred platforms for gaming, and yet I still do play games on it.

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        I understand that people play games on Android.

        What I don’t understand is people who would look at “gaming performances” for a phone or decide on a model based on that.

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      I bought the new iPhone 4 for that Infinity Blade sequel on iOS.

      Imo that was peak gaming on mobile devices and I’m sad we failed as a society to move into that reality and instead into one where we match fruit and spent $10k to do so.

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      There are good mobile games too, and emulation. I have a decent laptop to play games on and I still prefer my phone for gacha titles everyday over Android emulation on PC.

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      I like to keep MyBoy and PSSSP on my.phine for quick little games.

      Having Zelda / Pokemon and Wipeout HD in your pocket is great for unexpected long lines.

      That’s said I’d never use my phone for serious games and normal phone games are horrible. (RIP Geometry Wars 3 for Android)

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      There are a lot of people who buy phones for gaming, at least in countries like India and China. Even mobile gaming livestreamers are a thing.

      I never understood the appeal of mobile gaming, especially when there are tons of great games on PC.

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    Good to know, but nobody should buy a Pixel expecting it to be a high performance gaming phone. You buy it for all the smart Google features and camera.

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    No one buys a Pixel to game lol. People buy it because it’s smarter at normal phone stuff. Unless you’re like me. I don’t really care about that stuff and I want privacy, so I bought one for GrapheneOS.

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      Because it’s more optimised towards AI, you start off with an exynos chip which is ok for gaming and ok-ish as far as neural networks are concerned. The more you optimise it for AI tasks, the less easy it is to make it as available as it was before optimisation for rendering. So a G3 isn’t meant to be architecturaly better at gaming than a G2, the goal is to be way better at AI, and unless there is a leap in exynos architecture, that should increase with tha G4… Until google get it’s independant chip designs around ARM achitecture going. Until then they have to work within the limits of exynos limitations.

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      My main reason for buying a 6 refurbished was GrapheneOS. Beyond that, it’s a phone without an SD card slot or an easily replacee battery. When this phone gets an issue I can’t fix, I’ll probably re-evaluate what to get - hopefully still a GrapheneOS phone but more repaiarable and expandable.

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      I was enjoying the Xiaomi but it’s essentially useless in the US, they’re low key black balling those brand of phones here in SoCal at least.

      I loved everything about it I still have it as my “second phone” I keep on WiFi, if it worked here I would have enjoyed it.

      I also went to Central America and took it with me out there to use, it was perfect.

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      The site doesn’t work very well with Firefox. Tried opening the link on my phone and the page won’t load.

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    I don’t know if the phone will last 7 years of updates, if the SoC is already lagging behind a 2 year old snapdragon chip.

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    Damn it’s only slightly better than last year’s samsung flagship powerhouse. Probably it means candy crush will be lagging eh

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      It’s actually below. It’s only slightly above when the Samsung is throttling via the Game Optimizer Service.