Android gaming, its going to explode? Meet the EVO 2 Android set top console

[Bateluer]

I noticed that Android has many good games but a lot of those aren't even supported on my Atrix, don't know about other devices but I was pretty mad when I couldn't play Dungeon Hunters 2 .

You don't have access to Nvidia's Tegra zone or whatever they call it?

 

[badb0y]

You don't have access to Nvidia's Tegra zone or whatever they call it?

Dungeon Hunters 2 is a Gameloft game, I don't think it's available in TegraZone, I will check just to make sure.

 

[vshah]

Even if a year from now there's a mobile SoC that is as powerful as the 7 year old XBox 360...what motivation would I have to buy a console based off it rather than just buying the regular console?

Yes - it will be nice to have that kind of power in phones. But I just can't understand why you'd buy it in a console.

combined with bluetooth & hdmi out = fully mobile gaming platform as powerful as an xbox 360, with built in 4g net connection wherever you go. sounds pretty kickass to me. (assuming the games are there, which remains to be seen)

 

[DivideBYZero]

$250 to play games on a TV that are of tablet/phone quality in low res?

i think i'll stick to my xbox360 and ps3.

This. Phone games on TV. No thanks. Consoles have gaming eco systems to support them, such as common online features, look and feel, etc. Phone games have none of this.

 

[Aikouka]

I don't see how in the world it would cost $250. Apple's AppleTV debuted awhile back for $99 which essentially contained iPhone 4 hardware in a little box. I recall even musing on this forum that Apple should try and open up the AppleTV to allow games to be played on it.

But even that would present challenges... in my opinion, the biggest one is that not all games can be played with a controller. Games would have to be retrofitted to allow controller input if they even can. You could probably make a touch-based game like Angry Birds work with a controller (it's not much different than Worms), but a game like Cut the Rope where touching the screen in a specific spot is important simply will not translate over. Although, given the multitude of games that use "virtual joysticks" and the like, there would definitely be quite a few that would work.