ARM, the technology design company responsible for the chip architecture in mobile devices, predicted that smartphones will soon to surpass gaming consoles in 2017. ARM ecosystem director Nizar Romdan said at the recent Casual Connect conference in Amsterdam that they are preparing for a big leap to give computational power to handheld devices and tablets.
According to Venture Beat, the company already collaborated with the likes of Nvidia, Samsung, and Texas Instruments to produce "visuals on par" to exceed what people get from PlayStation 4 and Xbox One at the end of the coming year. Hence, they were just a year away to introduce mobile phones and gadgets that can play the same games like the said video gaming brands.
This, too, can be a good move to gather more hardcore players to the $30 billion mobile gaming market and it could be the start to begin the software for mobile virtual reality. In fact, the Tech adviser Digi-Capital foresees that VR and AR gaming on all kind of platforms could bring $10 billion income by 2020.
"Mobile hardware is already powerful," Romdam said. "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."
He also added that the materialization of mobile virtual reality will take away the gap between phones and game consoles by building a new way to work with the hardware, Techno Buffalo reported. "Our view is that mobile VR is the use case that could unlock the potential of mobile for hardcore gamers," he added.
"For once, mobile devices are on par with PC and consoles in terms of experience. We won't have the same processing," Romdam further explained. "And battery life is a problem. But it is the same user experience. That could be a game changer for mobile gaming."
