[Tooth]

Looks like PowerVR technology might be making a comeback.... it's currently powering the Samsung GalaxyS to the tune of 90M triangles/sec, as opposed to the about 20 available on the iPhone 3GS and Snapdragon-powered Androids.

Not sure if I see a need for that kind of horsepower on what is still a phone, but a) I get a kick out of seeing PowerVR still being used, and who knows where this takes us. Maybe there are some real games to be played, instead of the stupid Farmville-type crap that pervades the phone and online game scene.

Update: looking things up on Wikipedia, it seems that PowerVR is the de-facto standard for phone graphics. Neat-o - pretty insane though the power that's currently sitting in a little handset. In comparison, the DC could only achieve 7M triangles/sec.

This post has been edited by Tooth: 26 March 2010 - 10:34 AM

[whippingboy]

Fun statistics- but not a fair fight is it?

Snapdragon: 1GHz 512MB RAM vs.
Dreamcast CPU: 128-bit Hitachi SH-4 RISC processor (200MHz 360 MIPS) w/ 16MB of segmented RAM

[Tooth]

Definitely not. But it's always fun for me to see exactly how far we've come....

[whippingboy]

Agreed. I'm just disappointed instead of creative ways to add input devices into phones we shoehorn the controls into terrible on screen touch only interfaces. Just because something sells for $4.99 doesn't mean the audience thinks it's good. These games are cheap and available- shame with all that horsepower, and beautiful screens they can't seem to find a way to integrate better controls. When you have a choice of buying a $4.99 game on a phone or a $30 one on DSi or PSP, it's no wonder mobile gaming is stealing marketshare- but we need better ideas than the Ngage to make these games truly fun on the go on a phone.