Are AAA games really not suitable for smaller displays?
Nintendo Switch has been convincing us otherwise for years
Apple’s iPhones have undergone an unprecedented evolution in recent years. Specifically, we’ve seen advanced chips, great displays, top-notch cameras, and a host of other hilarious gadgets that make our daily lives easier overall. The aforementioned better chipsets have endowed today’s phones with unprecedented performance.
Thanks to this, iPhones are theoretically capable of running even so-called AAA game titles, giving the user a more or less full gaming experience. But the problem is that there is simply no such thing. Although today’s iPhones have quite solid performance and could handle a number of decent games without the slightest difficulty, we are simply out of luck.
Developers don’t provide us with such games and if we want a full gaming experience, we have to settle for a computer or a game console. In the end, though, it’s logical. After all, users are not used to going to mobile phones for gaming, nor are they willing to pay for mobile games. Add to that a significantly smaller screen, and you have a solid reason why it’s simply not worth it for developers to develop alone.
This seems to be about the best explanation. But then there’s another device that completely undermines these reasons. Because the Nintendo Switch handheld gaming console has been showing us for years that it can do it with a smaller display, and it has its target audience.
If the Switch works, why wouldn’t the iPhone?
The Nintendo Switch gaming console has been with us since 2017. As mentioned, it is a handheld device aimed squarely at gaming that can give its user a good gaming experience even on the go. The core in this case is the 7″ display, and of course, there’s also the option to connect the console to a TV and enjoy gaming in a big way.
Of course, given the size and other aspects, there are all sorts of compromises to be made on the performance side. This is what many people feared, lest the whole product concept die out due to weaker performance. But this has not happened, quite the contrary.
The Switch is still gaining the favour of gamers and overall one could say that it works perfectly, which is why a rather sharp discussion has opened up among apple fans. As stated, if the competing Switch can do it, why can’t the iPhone give us the same/similar capabilities.
Today’s iPhones have perfect performance and the potential for AAA titles. Despite this, the mobile platform is overlooked, even though they are more or less very similar devices. So let’s take a quick comparison between the iPhone and Switch.
iPhone vs. Switch
As we mentioned above, the Nintendo Switch relies on a 7″ display (Switch OLED also available) with 720p resolution, which is complemented by an NVIDIA Tegra processor, a 4310 mAh battery and 64GB of storage (with a memory card slot). But we must not forget to mention the docking station with LAN port and HDMI connector for transferring the image to the TV. As for the controls, there are controllers called Joy-Con on the sides of the console, which can be used to control the Switch in all modes — even when playing offline with friends.
We can take the iPhone 13 Pro for comparison. This phone offers a 6.1″ display (Super Retina XDR with ProMotion) with up to 120Hz refresh rate and a resolution of 2532 x 1170 at 460 pixels per inch. The performance here is taken care of by Apple’s own A15 Bionic chipset, which manages to please with its 6-core processor (with two performance and 4 power-saving cores), 5-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine for better AI and machine learning.
In terms of performance, iPhone is miles ahead. So at first glance, iPhone is well ahead of the competition. That’s why you have to take the price into account. If you are not planning to use Nintendo as a portable console, but your preference will be to play with a connection to the TV, then there is no point in paying extra for the OLED version of Nintendo Switch ($299.99), but if you like to play on the go then it is definitely worth paying extra for the Nintendo Switch in OLED version ($349.99). If using the iPhone 13 Pro, you’ll need to prepare yourself for at least $999.
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