Why Cell Phone Games Suck!
Most of us now have cell phones with us at all times, it has become a necessity. A great percentage of us that do have cell phones have phones that have all these snazzy features such as cameras, Bluetooth and the ability to play games. 5 years ago, industry experts predicted that mobile games will be the wave of the future within 5 years. It’s that time now and they are so wrong. Even with the latest innovations such as the iPhone, gaming on your cell phone sucks.
In order to have a successful gaming device, you need to have good controls. Cell phones have these tiny little buttons to make the phones smaller and slimmer. It makes it hard to control accurately and quickly if these buttons are so small and close to each other. Changing the current layout of phones will defeat the purpose of the phone. We want our phones to be small so it will fit in our pockets (for guys). Having a large cell phone is so 1980s.
Most of the games and applications are built on Java. This is a bad, bad, bad idea. I am personally not a big fan of Java. I understand that they are trying to create a universal language so that the same code can be able to run on all devices. The idea is good, but the implementation sucks. I deter away from Java applications because of that. Java is a memory resource hog and it doesn’t matter if you are on a computer or on your phone. Everything is ran through the main Java engine so there are more processing power needed. The Java app that you are trying to run needs to be converted to the machine’s code in order for your application to work. Therefore, every time the app needs to do something, it has to be translated before your machine can run it. There’s a new Google project that might be a good replacement for Java for phones called Android. I haven’t been able to play with it yet but it seems powerful.
The games for mobile phones these days aren’t that fun to play. I might occasionally start up the poker game that came with my Blackberry for a quick enjoyment. I don’t want to sit there for a long time staring at a small screen pressing small buttons. I would rather get a PSP to have a better gaming experience. Playing on your phone for a long period of time would also drain your battery quickly. If your battery runs out because you are playing games, your phone in turn becomes useless.
Playing games on your phone isn’t as enjoyable as many experts said it will be. There are so many companies out there that have invested a lot of money and time to build these games that not many people are going to play. I don’t really care for playing Metal Gear Solid or any other games that require you to be immersed in the game, I have a Playstation 3 for that.
I agree about phone games suck. But it should also come as to no surprise whether the code was written in c++, java, c#, perl, etc that the game will still run slow.
I guess I can’t really speak for other OS run phones because on my Windows Mobile 6 phone that writing ANY game will be slow due to memory management. I have to constantly use the task manager to kill applications so I can dial out or send a text!
Besides, who the hell wants to play a game outside of vanity type game such as poker, blackjack, solitaire, or even bubbles on their small phone screen anyway?
So aye to phone games sucking! What a huge marketing scam! Hail PS3!
Yeah I only play the free Poker game that I downloaded onto my phone. Even that lags, the processing power isn’t great. Plus, most of the phone users out there don’t have a data plan with their phone so they have to download the game onto their computer and then onto the phone. So much work.