I once wanted games to have huge casts like Chrono cross but not like this with all being paid only

>>987085 It's easier to make people shell out $5 a week for a free gacha rather than unlocking costumes in dlc waves like the atelier games or something, yes.

So it seems this thread had some timing in regards to recent announcements that partially refute the thesis in OP. Those Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil and Death Stranding ports have BOMBED https://archive.fo/jVItE >Very few people are downloading the big-name console games ported over to iPhone in the last year – and an even smaller number are paying $15-50 to unlock the full games. I started this thread because I am staunch that some hybridization will occur in the future and some market forces point in the right direction also fuck cloud gaming, if there's one thing I'm glad Gulag did it was killing that market and smothering it in the crib but it also seems like there are common barriers to overcome. >The elephant in the room, which is thermals and battery drain. Even handhelds aren't foolish to ship without cooling fans. I honestly don't know about the new Snapdragon laptops but they track to have only 5000 mAh capacity, which gets sucked down the drain with a regular Unity gacha running. For reference the AYN Odin 2 packs a 8000 mAh battery to stand a chance of lasting on a roadtrip and the Deck has a 13800 mAh battery on x86, with competitors pushing the capacity upwards to compete. ARM falls apart with heavy workloads, sorry ARManon. ARM is going to have to redesign itself after being designed for passive cooling for so long if it wants to scale up. >Extending thermals and battery drain, ARM has the exact same issue of emptying your battery as fast as the Deck, sometimes even more. If you've tried to game on a phone thermal throttling also happens when the chip reaches 40 degrees Celsius. The Deck only shuts down above 100 degrees. So long as this limitation persists ARM loses to x86. >ARM is only getting pushed in the news as of recent because Qualcomm is trying to accrue market share rapidly and selling their new chips below cost to nab partners. Some people have commented that the new Snapdragon chips only seemed impressive in marketing because they are manufactured on a 4nm node while they compared them to old x86 chips manufactured with larger transistors. In real world performance AMD's x86 chips outstrip the Snapdragon X line: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Snapdragon-X-Elite-84100-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-8500G/m2322028vsm2284775 and yes considering that this is from UserBenchmark who are Intel whores this is notable x86 and ARM are equivalent in power efficiency after all, and when a 7nm APU like the Deck's is running Cyberpunk better than a 4nm ARM chip that is trouble. >ARM also wants to push gay AI shit like hardware attestation and that would be TOTAL GAMING DEATH if that were to happen. This is one of the points I wanted to bring up in my OP but couldn't because of how multifaceted this topic is to cover. >Gamedevs are shit since many developers and publishers have switched to a "hire and fire" model and there are so many manbabies who defend the poor technical state of gayming. For the cross-platform model to work they need to program a game that can run very well on mobile and then scale up, like 8chan's old favorite Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain. One of the titles that inspired said thesis. Unfortunately, today's workforce are so optimization-adverse and disposable there are very few instances of them happening. >Ugly and poor mobile touch controls and UI. Enough said. >The mobile gaming market has been trained on F2P for so long trying to edge in a new market based around trying before buying for a set price is going to be difficult. Gachas tend to use casino-esque tactics because otherwise they EOS, and it's easier to manipulate a whale into spending $70 for fictional consumables than to get him to buy a full game. Also, tits and ass greatly extend your game's lifespan, look at The First Descendant thriving despite being worse than Destiny and Warframe I've always envisioned a "battle pass" model that would functionally replace retail purchases, but it seems this is a real-world result that shows how unviable it currently is at the moment. funnily enough /snowg/ on cuckchan has been discussing this exact topic when I was completely unaware of its existence until recently I've probably missed a shitload of points I've brainstormed, but I wanted to clarify what I want this thread to be about. >>986983 Nah, I do remember these titles, I was even a Gameloft kid before it collapsed and became the hostel of pajeet gamers. I'm oddly obsessed with the aesthetic of sixth-generation games that assume the modern graphic developments of current titles and are designed for four inch screens, and I see a lot of parallels with some Japanese developers like Nintendo as well as indies. I honestly don't remember but I think F2P games got prioritized in charts when games got ranked in terms of downloads rather than revenue.

Have you thought about if Valve has the potential to interrupt the Mobile market via Proton and Linux? I'm asking since I know a lot of people playing mobile games these days since games like Genshin Impact and Blue Archive are starting to make legitimate market share in the gaming industry, and I'm wondering if someone will make a new line of smartphones in order to cater to both the core gaming market and the mobile gaming market. I don't think Android is a viable platform since Google wants to make it more like iOS where they control the OS and the app store platform rather than letting the consumer decide where they want to get their apps. Not only that, but I was hoping Flatpaks would ultimately act as a storefront for more general apps and subscriptions like mobile games and subscription services, but I suspect there are players on that team who are worried about the financial involvement. Mind you I'm not attacking the Flatpak team for going full-on FOSS autism, it's completely understandable considering how sometimes money ruins community interactions and personal relationships That being said, I think Steam and by extensions PC gaming appears to be rapidly growing while traditional consoles appear to be going extinct, I kinda makes me wonder about how someone could enter the mobile market by porting Linux to ARM, or maybe even have the Steam Deck 2 also work as a smartphone. I do know that Valve is experimenting with Waydroid, so I'm looking forward to seeing where that goes. Regardless, I'm interested to see if /v/, and the general market would be interested in something like a Steam phone that runs on a flavor of SteamOS specifically made for mobile phones. You may think that playing traditional games on a phone is unbearable, and it usually is. Although you can make the argument that all it really needs is a packaged controller to make the device more accessible to traditional games. I know this for a fact since I see people using smartphone apps like Winlator to fully fledged Windows games with modern smartphones. Personally, I think it's incredible how far we've come with current tech that even a small project like Winlator can run something like DMC and GTA at around 40ish FPS, and the tech converting x86 to ARM will only get better with time. We've already seen high quality emulation via Yuzu on Android, I'm wondering what will happen in a few years once the conversion algorithms are made well enough to play games like how Linux anons can play windows games via Proton. In any case, with the success of the Steam Deck and the Index, I wouldn't be surprised if Valve or another company makes a Linux a viable platform for mobile phones. I think companies like Google and Apple aren't really taking advantage of the platform like they should and having a company like System76 or Valve bring a cutting edge Linux smartphone to the masses should make the computer and gaming markets more interesting in my opinion.

What's with all the retarded threads lately?

>>1014575 What's retarded about this thread? Looks fine to me.

If its not pocketable why bother replacing the steam deck, and if it has no buttons why bother replacing a phone. Once you solve those minimum barriers of entry, you have battery life, ergonomics, and screen size/res to worry about. There are already linux phones that nobody wants to touch because its a shitty platform to dev on. >>1014575 It's probably one guy making a thread about things from the gamergay thread a week later.

>>1014577 It's a niche topic with very little room for discussion about nothing but speculation about a specific company bringing some sort of x86 emulation to android. Except there's already x86 emulation for android and it has nothing to do with Valve. OP could have actually researched the topic and made a thread that had a lot more substance. Or made a Linux/FOSS general thread. But instead he chose to make an ideas guy thread fantasizing about companies he knows about releasing products.

>>1014566 Just reminded me the N-Gage was a thing at one point.

>>1014584 >was a thing at one point I guess it went and disengaged

>>1014584 It was, although I think the market has evolved into a place where phones are almost as powerful as PCs and with ARM catching up to computers I think it would be a good idea to discuss the future of vidya on ARM. >>1014578 You're not thinking a head into the future enough. We've already reached the point where phones are playing AAA quality games, although the problem is that Apple and Google control the market rather than having any real competition or platforms to be allowed in the marketplace. I think the EU actually tried to remedy this with Apple being forced to allow alternative app stores, however it's only limited to certain countries, which I feel limits what a mobile phone can be. Think of it like this, we could be living in a society where you no longer need a gaming laptop or dedicated gaming device. Instead, you could attach a controller like you would to a PC or a games console. I think the main issue with smartphones is that they're limited by the imagination of the current market leaders. I think if someone made a platform that was like Linux on the smartphone, then they could have a potential mobile powerhouse. I think people underestimate the modularity of phones and how they could be designed to be plugged into more dedicated devices, be it a laptop or a controller. It's something I think is worth talking about rather than just sage'ing a thread into oblivion because you don't like the topic.

>>1014582 >instead he chose to make an ideas guy thread fantasizing That's the average /v/ thread, maybe you're a newfag.

>>1014587 I could say the same thing about not looking to the future too, that mixed reality glasses will replace phones, and they will be replaced by something like neuralink or ocular implants. I once again tell you that it will have to fit in a pocket and have buttons to be relevant within the scope of the next 5-10 years. If it requires extra stuff from a backpack to function then it won't compete with the phone people already have or a steam deck that requires the same excess storage and can play desktop games for cheaper than some phones.

>>1014596 >I put sage in subject line that means I'm down voting Kill yourself retard.

>>1014596 I would make the argument that people are already buying super huge phones and that even Apple got rid of the 6-inch portable phone with the iPhone 16 Pro only coming in at 6.3 inches. Once again, you underestimate the modularity of these devices and what they can be under the right management. Not to mention, normalfags don't really put phones to their ears anymore, they usually have some sort of speaker or headphone that they use to speak into the phone rather than using the earpiece speaker. I don't think it's as far off as you think either, considering that a lot of devices are already moving to ARM and that movements backed by companies like Microsoft and Google are already underway to get rid of x86. I think it's something worth discussing as this future I'm talking about can come as soon as 2026, maybe even 2025.

>>1014598 He's also using it wrong.

>>1014600 And yet I didn't bump the catalog since I chose to use both. >>1014598 You're downvoting by derailing the thread :^) >>1014599 They can get rid of x86, but just because you can translate x86 to arm doesn't mean it will run more efficient. ARM native code uses a reduced instruction set that has been added to over the years to make it more like x86, now at the point you could run x86 instructions pretty well. Those arm laptops with the elite x chip can play some games at a low resolution, but they have larger batteries and better heat dissipation than a phone, and likely reduced power efficiency during it all. An all-in-one device is obviously something every technology user wants, but not many people want their phone to run out of battery for the day in 30 minutes of gaming.

>>1014575 Cuckchan rapefugees don't check the catalog before posting, and so we get a gazillion duplicates of nintenyearolds blurting out anything that comes across their minds. Example, this is just the same thread as >>986877 That's why we have a bunch of five-post threads about little insignificant news announcements like Krafton acquiring Tango Gameworks. In other threads they're actively trying to justify the usage of toomer terms now. In a saner world, we'd have just one thread for Black Myth Wukong, or perhaps we'd have a general to discuss how Korea and China are slowly joining the developed world in creating buy-to-play games whereas the developed world is regressing into muh Metcalfe's law games, but no, 8chan has three threads on the game because cuckchanners are retarded.

>>1014618 Congratulations, you somehow convinced a mod to merge the threads.

>>1014628 He's kinda got a point as I forgot about this thread when making >>1014566

>>1014592 What's this donut steel shit?

>>1014728 Pathetic Speaking of, anyone know where I can find a higher resolution version of this pic

>>1014731 https://xcancel.com/USA37107692/status/1755222242089381936 Dang another artist that makes me wish I knew how to draw

>>1014736 >>1014737 MORE

>>1014736 >>1014737 Anon always comes through. Thanks bros.

>>1014566 I TOLD YOU IT'S HAPPENING https://archive.ph/N3Jcp

>>1017503 And Qualcomm might buy jewtel Wonder what the future holds for tech, at least shit is moving slowly forward again after years of stagnation.

>>1017503 >>1017514 And despite all this, IBM still exists...somehow.

>>1014584 Doesn't MS own that after they bought Nokia's phone stuff? >>1014566 >>1017503 I'd welcome anything that would damage the effective duopoly of two of the worst companies out there (or, at least, Google. I've heard even after the ruling forced Apple to allow other shit that JIT stuff is still impossible).

I KEEP TELLING YOU https://www.techspot.com/news/105355-snapdragon-8-elite-arrives-linux-support-potentially-unlocking.html it might be delayed if Qualcomm loses the lawsuit from ARM

>>1033293 I guess consoles truly are fucked

>>1033293 Just needs sandboxing for exe programs like they do for apps.

>>1033293 And just like that, it got worse https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/qualcomm-accuses-arm-of-anticompetitive-conduct-as-its-license-is-terminated-due-to-repeated-material-breaches-of-arms-license-agreement They do have 60 days to come to an agreement, which I'm sure Qualcomm will fold like a lawn chair to ARM's demands.

>>1033873 Well the RedMagic phone is on the market, I think they just need Valve or someone to make a ProtonARM equivalent in order to really get shit going. Additionally Google is prepping Linux applications to work in Android https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-app-3489887/