I just don't have a purpose for a portable device. My phone is more than enough for gaming here and there.
Granted this is a nice device. I just wouldn't use it. I certainly am not going to sit on my couch and use it when I have my consoles.
God knows I hate AT&T with a vengeance .
My main issue with phones as a gaming device is that the controls just don't work. Unless it's something using touch controls specifically, there's no good gaming setup. The on-screen joystick is a joke.
Mainly for this I'm looking at the graphics
The on-screen joystick IS a joke, and I couldn't agree with you more. I have an LG G2X (or Optimus 2X as its called in Europe), but I never use the thing for gaming. It's annoying when my hands have to cover a quarter of the screen just to play something. Plus, smart phones in general already suffer from short battery lives, and using games will only speed up the drain even further.
Another point: the best mobile graphics processor on the market, at the moment, is the Tegra 2 from Nvidia (my LG G2x has it). But, the graphics that are delivered from this chip-set looks out-dated when compared to old PC graphics cards from eight years ago. But, maybe that's acceptable for mobile gaming .
I think everyone does. Once my current contract is up with my iPhone I'm going straight to Verizon to get another one.
~~With the Vita, I'm definitely going to hold off on buying this one. I got the PSP on day one, and no games interested me for the longest time so I had it sitting on the shelf.
The Vita will be top graphics for now. But Nvidia is already preparing Tegra 3 hardware that will be much more powerful
but--the thing about phones is that phones also have a lot more going on that can slow things down. So it is better to have a gaming devoted device.
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