Nvidia Shows Off Tegra 3 Optimized Games at MWC 2012
With games like these, one may question the viability of dedicated portable gaming devices.
While Nvidia hasn't announced anything new at Mobile World Congress 2012, a slew of new games have arrived for Tegra 3-based devices. This is part of an effort to highlight how Nvidia's latest SoC is the only one in its field to offer a true gaming experience. To that end, Nvidia's doing a pretty good job. When it comes to eye bling, Nvidia reigns king in the world of mobile computing and it's showing through the number of game developers who are exclusively leveraging Tegra 3 hardware.
According to Nvidia, "these games didn’t come to Tegra 3 by accident. We’ve been working with these leading mobile game developers for over six years to hone and refine their wares. Tegra 3, with four performance processing cores, in addition to its fifth battery saver core, and a 12-core GeForce GPU, is putting console games on notice…"
The following is a list of games being announced:
- Golden Arrow THD
- Dark Kingdom THD
- Eden to GREEEEN THD
- Hamilton’s Great Adventure THD
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II
These games join an existing stellar suite of 3D eye candy which includes titles like Riptide, Shadowland, and others.
wow
Yeah, ShadowGun is the FPS they show in that video and it can be played on current tegra 2 phones, theres cracks that allow it to work on adreno gpu's as well. Gorgeous game for a phone.
So basically you can take your pick from bluetooth peripherals like wii and ps3 peripherals just so happen to be along with usb ones like xbox and pc happen to be. On top of that you can display it via HDMI to a HDMI device and with wifi you can remote desktop it to a pc in a different room to your HDTV for example. Hell if you have 2 one can be used as a Wii U style multitouch peripheral and the other to stream to the HDTV.
You might even be able to setup softh and remote desktop to it honestly for extra resolution and multitouch control functionality for your desktop pc.
I like that phones are more capable now than ever before, but until I find a control scheme that doesn't involve my fat fingers taking up screen real estate I don't see this taking over the mobile gaming market totally.
touchscreen controls suck, it is very hard to respond quickly with them, but with a controller, you can get a console like experience (better than the PSP can provide as you actually have a full sized controller (great for long trips on if you are stuck on a long boring flight)
or a ps3 controller