The future of gaming phones proved to be a more divisive topic than we anticipated – the final result is nearly even, a 47/53 split in favor of “no, gaming phones do not have a future”. At least some consensus seems to have formed in the comments.
To succeed, these phones need two things – games and hardware controls. The former seems obvious but isn’t. Nvidia tried to lure game devs into porting their games to Android (to promote its Tegra chipsets), Sony is still trying to do the same. And yet sales of AAA mobile games are nowhere near as profitable as they are on console and PC.
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