09-04-2010, 12:45 AM
Riz Wrote:It seems that the processing power available on the iPhone 4 at least is currently better than most PCs for graphics processing. That's according to the guys who ported the Unreal 5 engine to it. I'll take their word on it, as it runs smooth as hell on mine.I don't see how that's physically possible, though I guess it depends on what we're defining as "most PCs". My computer at work has some kind of really shitty nVidia card that's not very big and doesn't even have a fan. That I can believe. My current gaming machine has an nVidia 480 GX, which is gigantic, has metal pipes coming out of it and gets hot as fuck. It would probably drain the entire iPhone battery in about 3 minutes. If the iPhone 4 has the graphical power of so much as an nVidia 9800, I'd be curious to know how they solved the heat problem without losing performance. The 9800 was pretty damn big and most of that was the cooling.
So basically I don't believe them, or I think they are taking a dishonest definition of "most computers" and including machines that were never intended for gaming or are 14 years old.
Basically, I want to see some solid A+ titles moving to the iPad before I'm likely to invest in one. What I've seen is interesting and I'm sure I'd get use out of it, but it's game designs from 1992. The graphics may be better but the actual design and depth of the game is from 1992. (And that might be a generous estimate. Starflight was 1986. Star Control 2 was 1992. Total Annihilation was 1997. Let me know when the iPad has something like that but with modern graphics.)