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There are a handful of mobile ports of desktop games which are fine, like Hearthstone if you're into that. It plays ok on a phone. But mostly they don't exist.
by TillE 3y ago
There are a handful of mobile ports of desktop games which are fine, like Hearthstone if you're into that. It plays ok on a phone.
But mostly they don't exist. And I'm convinced the root cause is that a tiny touchscreen is an awful medium for nontrivial games. You can make a tiny screen work with a controller, and you can make other types of games with a big touchscreen where you can present lots of information, but the combination is so restrictive that it's just not worth the trouble of competing with the heaps of F2P garbage.
- throw9away6 3y agoIt’s not the screen there were plenty of great games for the gba gbc and DS all had tiny screens
- toast0 3y agoAll of those systems have buttons. The DS etc touch screen is different because you (often) use a stylus and there's less of the effect where your finger obscures the thing you're pointing at. The Xperia Play would probably be ok for gaming, although I didn't own one. I think the N-Gage was too much of a compromise, but I didn't own one of those either.