• Valmond@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Well the handheld thing, if you make a good game it could be shipped to mobile? Or maybe lacking buttons makes it always crappy?

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      5 hours ago

      Yea, eating up loads of screen space for controls and having a tiny screen are big negatives.

      Processing power is waaaay less too, but that’s been a non-issue for indie quality style graphics for some years, now.

      The entire market works off of freemium and piecemeal/ad models, too, which as Tim refuses to admit; people also hate!

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        4 hours ago

        He he I worked in the mobile game industry before smartphones, buttons (flimsy though for many phones) but man has screens gotten not just bigger but better :-)

        Power is never an issue, except if you want to showcase some tech instead of making a good game, IMO.

        Ya to death with all that dark pattern shit.

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          4 hours ago

          The screens getting better pushes directly against graphics processing increases. More pixels takes more power, after all.

          Not that it’s any excuse… Modern phones are more powerful than the Switch, by a long shot.

          I really wish mobile games could be good, but this is modern capitalism: It’s not about careers and good products. It’s about extracting wealth.

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            4 hours ago

            Well, check out a GBA/DS fat screen vs a DS lite one, it’s from that time roughly, not many more pixels but the quality is way different. But sure, a shame the whole mobile game industry is so incredibly crappy.