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>It's worth noting that current iPhone and Android phones now equal, if not exceed, the current generation of consoles in terms of power.

Is this true?

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No. xbox 360 gpu has ~ 240 GFLOPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_(graphics_chip)

phones have ~ 25 Gflops - 50 Gflops http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/11

That's last year's iPhone. Didn't the performance double this year?

http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/publ...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5

It looks like we might get a doubling of performance every year. With Android vs iOS vs Microsoft, consumers should be in for quite a treat.

Looks like the A7 gpu is coming in at 115.2 glops... so yeah... getting close. That's pretty awesome.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(system_on_chip)

That's not that awesome, that's a brand new chip vs a 7 year old console chip. And not even the whole chip, just the performance of the GPU.

Which is running on in the palm of your hand, on battery power.. How is that not awesome?

The horsepower-per-pixel of a 5s is a close match to an Xbox360 game that insists on running at full 1080p. http://timothylottes.blogspot.com/2013/09/a7.html

No, they haven't quite reached the last generation (PS3/Xbox 360) yet and they're a long way away from the PS4 and Xbox One.

they are just now about halfway there. When virtually everyone has a smartphone capable of that power is a different matter entirely though, for all i know many of my friends still use iphone 4/4S'

Still don't have decent ways to get gigabytes of assets onto the phone. Some PC games are getting into the 40 GB range (which is one of the design points for Xbox One).

You could argue that many of those assets could be served via streaming, or would be a quarter the size on a phone-like screen (... until you want to show it in 1080P via an adapter or something). Or that the game industry doesn't give a damn about asset size because it hasn't had to, on PCs.

Hm, I wonder how long these 250 GB monthly bandwidth caps can last with that kind of download size becoming more common. I've already run into one or two cases where I needed multiple months of DL cap for single downloads, so I'm hoping the pressure forces a bump...

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