Ultra-low-end business laptops from 2015 with a mobile Intel Core i3, 4 GB of RAM, and integrated graphics still have a dramatically better gaming experience than the Pixel 7 Pro. Why?

By the way, this is even with the help of emulators. Without emulators, gaming would outright be impossible for most people

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      The very robust selection and extreme amount of fine-tuning of emulators on that really old business laptop vs… all Android gets. The only Sega hardware that is emulated on Android is the Dreamcast. For Saturn and below, there is nothing. Even weak IBM PCs just have a very robust library of games that smartphones have stopped making attempts to catch up to.

      Technically Dreamcast emulation is superior on Android over anything else… but you can easily run Android apps on an IBM PC.

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      Take a game wrote for a pc and compare it to any mobile game.

      Which is game has better graphics?

      Which game has a better story?

      Yeah the PC game will be better.

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          I’m playing a game on a 1.5 year old Ipad and playing a 12 year old game on my pc. The 12 year old game still looks better. When I started playing that game on pc, I was playing on a 15 year old pc… That pc game still looks better than any mobile game that I’ve ever seen.

          So yeah I’d stand by the statement that pc games will look better then mobile games. There’s always more power in the PC.

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    Dependent? It’s not dependent but targeted. That is the largest market for computers and computer accessories. That’s why the PC market is often targeted because the rest of the majority exists.

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      I thought smartphones based on the arm64-v8a (or in some cases, armeabi-v7a) were actually the largest market for computers right now, and yet, despite having a larger market, they have a far crappier gaming experience.

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    It always has been since the 90s. Although seeing as games are written for OS not for hardware architecture the reason things run like ass on a phone is because there will be a software translation layer getting the thing to work.

    In addition, phone hardware is designed for power efficiency where laptop and desktop aren’t as pushed that for for power efficiency.

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      Depends. I enjoy a card game or sudoku on mobile.

      But for real games I use my PC. I don’t understand people going crazy about the steam deck too. Who in their right mind enjoys for example Cyberpunk on a tiny screen, that’s like watching Dune on your phone. What’s the point?

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        Actually, the answer for small screens is specially for porn games. A lot of people cannot comfortably enjoy them on a laptop or desktop IBM PC, so they need a device they can take with them into their bed so they can comfortably play these.

        Unfortunately, the developers did not listen, so people like me risk hurting their neck and back to play these in bed by using a laptop.

        Not to mention, my Pixel 7 Pro has a much better display than my laptop.

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      Slay the Spire is superior on mobile (so are a ton of board games like Jaipur and Spelndor). Sagrada works really well. I’m curious about the new Ass creed. The old Infinity Blade games were fun and had overall good graphics, even for PC games. I wish the dude behind “THOSE GAMES” would port it to mobile, but steam link is a thing. Doorkickers. Some of the dual-stick shooters.