I'm thinking of selling my PSP just to upgrade my Droid Eris to a regular Droid. I'm doing this just for the sake of mobile gaming. I can't always carry around a PSP to play with, and even if I do, I usually play emulators. The Droid, however, can play emulators and other games that I can enjoy and ALWAYS carry around on the go. I just can't decide. What's worth it, a PSP or a Droid for mobile gaming?
well if you only play gba/snes/nes/genesis and not psp games i guess you should be fine personally i don't feel my phone could replace my psp (and vice versa)
A bit ot: Which has better gaming performance the Droid/Milestone or a 1ghz Snapdragon device?
Droid has more gaming potential then 1ghz snapdragon devices because of the seperate gpu the Droid has
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Snapdragon is better chipset.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/nexus-one-vs-motorola-droid/
shep211 said:
Snapdragon is better chipset.
http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/nexus-one-vs-motorola-droid/
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ITs a little bit better than omap3430, but the onboard gpu on the qsd82xx platform sucks, the POWERVR SGX which is withing the omap3430 out performance the onboard amd gpu from the qsd82xx platform by a LOT, so if you want a better gaming experience or your a gamer like my self =], go for a omap3430 based device, for this reason im selling my acer liquid and getting a motorola milestone.
What about for flash performance?
froyo's coming with flash to both droid and snapdragons.
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The biggest reason why the droid is better than a nexus one or incredible for gaming is because of the game gripper.
Sure, a nexus one can use a wii remote.......but only if you're sitting at a desk or something.
it's not a good idea.
the emulators on psp are better control.
and u can always play games with psp.
but on contrary,if play droid games all day long,u have to charge every day even twice.
The problem I have with portable game consoles is that you gotta carry them with you. If you're like me and hate carrying around extra ****, then an all in one device like Android will work. I have Genesis, Snes, and Nes games working fine on my Kaiser with Android running on it.
I have a PSP btw, and I have a lot of cool stuff working on it. SNES, PSX, Gensis, NES, and even N64 games. Very comfortable and easy to use. Love the large screen and analog stick. Funny thing is, I don't own any PSP games. I think someone gave Megaman X to me as a gift, and I threw it to the side to collect dust.
Reasons to game on the Android
#1 You hate to carry extra **** with you. Cellphone + wallet is all you want.
#2 Battery life generally lasts longer for gaming, compared to PSP.
#3 Multi-player through 3G connection.
#4 Getting games through the Market is easier then it is for PSP.
#5 Accelerometer, if you have one.
#6 Touch Screen. Hey, the Nintendo DS has one.
Reasons to game on the PSP
#1 Bigger screen.
#2 Better controls.
#3 Larger selection of games.
#4 Better graphics.
#5 PS2 remade games. <--Not always a plus
Why not to game on Android
#1 Most games are casual games, like Jewels.
#2 Will drain the battery faster, for a device that's suppose to function mainly as a phone.
#3 Keyboard sucks. Not having a keyboard sucks more.
#4 Phone calls can interrupt game play.
Why not to game on the PSP
#1 Extra **** to carry. You try fitting this into your pocket along with your cell phone and wallet.
#2 Battery life sucks. Lasts 3 hours at best, so you'll need to carry a charger with you too.
#3 UMD games take extra space.
#4 PSP®go is a complete waste of money, compared to PSP slim or Fat PSP.
There you have it. Gaming on the Android is great when you find yourself waiting in line, or just happen to find yourself in a situation that's boring. PSP is for those long trips, like if on the bus to work or on a plane.
I got a PSP-2000 with Custom Firmware (5.50 gen-d3) and using the UniPsnKiller plug-in, I can play online, play all the latest psp games that require 5.51+ firmware, etc. There are also tons of emulators. So far gameboy, nes, snes, and those other old-school 2D emulators work perfectly. The N64 emulator (I use DaedalusX64) works great for famous N64 games like Super Mario 64, Star Fox 64, and Mario Kart 64.
But if you have the lame PSP-3000 or the PSP-Go then sell it and get the droid or the droid incredible.
If you have the PSP-2000 or PSP-1000 then get that thing hacked and put Custom firmware on it.
The Milestone/Droid's biggest advantage, when it comes to emulation gaming. Is is the keypad and keyboard.
no, my PSP is already ctf with Gen d3. just that I play more emulators than PSP games, but still play some PSP games. or should I just wait for the Droid 2?
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I’m curious as to what kind of performance other people are getting in Dungeon Defenders on your stock Nexus S? I have had the game for more then a month now and it runs great up until certain points in battle with the influx of multiple waves and towers blasting away. The game doesn’t become unplayable but it does get a little choppy until all the mobs are cleared out. I would think this as being the norm for such a graphic intense game but I see people saying how great this game runs on their phone (droid, evo, galaxy s whatever). I’m trying to gauge what “runs great” means for others that have the game and if my Nexus S is underperforming for some reason. I have tried all the tips for getting better performance out of the game but it doesn’t seem to help much. Is this what everyone experiences for this game on your Nexus S?
What rom are you using?
I noticed on Stock 2.3.2 the gpu seamed to perform the best in smartbench, cm mod always scored lower.
Stock 2.3.3 also scores lower and the latest nightly cm 11 build is scoring like 1600 in smartbench for gpu appose to stock 2.3.2 which scored 3000....
I think it may just have something to do with newer video drivers being used though which smartbench is misreading.
I actually think the hummingbird is just as capable for gaming as the Nvidia cpu the only difference is this game and others to come are being optimized for Nvidia, nvidia is possibly even paying for this the way they do on PC.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/20/review-t-mobile-g2x-optimus-2x/
"Perhaps the most powerful phone on the market, the G2x is certainly impressive technically, but physically it’s uninspiring, and a lack of compelling HD and gaming content compatible with Android makes its greatest assets (large screen and powerful processor) underwhelming. And where’s my Gingerbread?"
Well with nVidia in the game, I imagine we will start seeing more and more developers jumping on board with Android games.
Also, Gingerbread won't do much for us. We need Ice Cream (2.4) before our phones will be maximum performance.
I know there aren't any meaningful choices yet (unless you consider the Nvidia Shield a contender) but I'm planning on a new Tablet later this year & have read a few articles that say whilst the Snapdragon is very impressive Tegra 4 is winning in the raw performance/benchmarks stakes.
I appreciate it's generally a whole different ball game in terms of real world performance & there's also the power draw consideration, whilst I'm liking what I've heard of the Tegra 4 so far I've also heard it doesn't support OpenGL ES 3.0 could this present a problem as far as future games & emulation is concerned?
What do you guys think..?
i was just wondering ! what keeps android games from looking better?! i mean in terms of graphics ! SoCs like X1 K1 and 810 have powerful GPU and CPU , not good as a gaming pc or console ! but its probably good enough for some simple games , something like TF2! what is the main problem? lack of dev? Android's problem? SoC? battery? storage? i was just wondering why there aren't any games like that for android ! (im not talking about crysis but simple games like quake live tf2 etc)
Hardware fragmentation.
Develop a game for iOS you have about 8 devices you need to support, which are all really the same device with different resolutions and speed. For android, what are you going to target.