Smartphones and tablets are already capable of much more than you’re probably aware of. My tablet was produced in 2013 and I am consistently surprised by newer games that I download and how great they look. The chips inside of our smart devices are always evolving, and because there’s always a market for the latest and greatest hardware, there’s little risk for producers like Samsung, Apple, and Nvidia when creating and pushing new product; carrier contracts ensure that most of us are consistently upgrading our phones at the very least.
ARM, the company behind the chip architecture in our modern smart devices, showed up to the Casual Connect conference in Amsterdam to get us hyped about the next big leap in mobile gaming. According to ARM ecosystem director Nizar Romdan, the chips that they’re creating with partners like Nvidia, Samsung, and Texas Instruments will be powerful enough to generate graphics comparable to what we’re seeing from the Xbox One and PS4 very soon; like next year, soon. “Mobile hardware is already powerful,” says Romdan, “If you take today’s high-end smartphone or tablet, the performance is already better than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. It’s catching up quickly with Xbox One and PlayStation 4.” I wrote an article a while back about how mobile gaming could take over console gaming. Could we be seeing that happen sooner than we thought?
Source: VentureBeat