• @PeachMan
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    341 year ago

    Good to know, but nobody should buy a Pixel expecting it to be a high performance gaming phone. You buy it for all the smart Google features and camera.

        • @pathief
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          1 year ago

          On one hand I understand their policy but buying a phone directly from Google when I’m trying to remove Google from my life just makes no sense in my head.

    • Polar
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      41 year ago

      My 7 Pro can emulate Wii games flawlessly. Possibly switch, but I’ve not tried.

      It’s a very powerful phone.

      • @moonburster
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        51 year ago

        I haven’t experienced my 7 pro underperforming to the s22 either

  • @[email protected]
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    331 year ago

    Seriously, there are people buying phones to play high specs games on it?

    There are platforms that are so much better than phones for gaming, and most people playing games on their phones are playing small F2P crap anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago
      1. Games are not fungible.

      2. Even the Switch or Deck are not convenient to carry around every day.

      Personally, Android is not in my top 3 preferred platforms for gaming, and yet I still do play games on it.

      • @[email protected]
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        121 year ago

        I understand that people play games on Android.

        What I don’t understand is people who would look at “gaming performances” for a phone or decide on a model based on that.

          • @phamanhvu01
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            31 year ago

            How is that not a valid metric for choosing a phone? The way I see it, it’s not really any different to choosing a phone for its camera performance or battery life.

    • androidtate
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      61 year ago

      Pixel software features are cool but being weaker than the Snapdragon 888 is embarrassing for the high price they’re charging.

    • @Potatos_are_not_friends
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      21 year ago

      I bought the new iPhone 4 for that Infinity Blade sequel on iOS.

      Imo that was peak gaming on mobile devices and I’m sad we failed as a society to move into that reality and instead into one where we match fruit and spent $10k to do so.

    • Gunpachi
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      11 year ago

      There are a lot of people who buy phones for gaming, at least in countries like India and China. Even mobile gaming livestreamers are a thing.

      I never understood the appeal of mobile gaming, especially when there are tons of great games on PC.

    • bitwolf
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      11 year ago

      I like to keep MyBoy and PSSSP on my.phine for quick little games.

      Having Zelda / Pokemon and Wipeout HD in your pocket is great for unexpected long lines.

      That’s said I’d never use my phone for serious games and normal phone games are horrible. (RIP Geometry Wars 3 for Android)

    • @phamanhvu01
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      11 year ago

      There are good mobile games too, and emulation. I have a decent laptop to play games on and I still prefer my phone for gacha titles everyday over Android emulation on PC.

  • @jacktherippah
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    1 year ago

    No one buys a Pixel to game lol. People buy it because it’s smarter at normal phone stuff. Unless you’re like me. I don’t really care about that stuff and I want privacy, so I bought one for GrapheneOS.

  • N-E-N
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    131 year ago

    How tf did it score worse than the 7 Pro

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Because it’s more optimised towards AI, you start off with an exynos chip which is ok for gaming and ok-ish as far as neural networks are concerned. The more you optimise it for AI tasks, the less easy it is to make it as available as it was before optimisation for rendering. So a G3 isn’t meant to be architecturaly better at gaming than a G2, the goal is to be way better at AI, and unless there is a leap in exynos architecture, that should increase with tha G4… Until google get it’s independant chip designs around ARM achitecture going. Until then they have to work within the limits of exynos limitations.

  • Gunpachi
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    41 year ago

    I don’t know if the phone will last 7 years of updates, if the SoC is already lagging behind a 2 year old snapdragon chip.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      The site doesn’t work very well with Firefox. Tried opening the link on my phone and the page won’t load.

  • @Alami
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    01 year ago

    Damn it’s only slightly better than last year’s samsung flagship powerhouse. Probably it means candy crush will be lagging eh

    • ijeffOPM
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      It’s actually below. It’s only slightly above when the Samsung is throttling via the Game Optimizer Service.

      • @Alami
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        01 year ago

        So defo no candy crush

  • ryan213
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    01 year ago

    I wasn’t gunna…