Android gaming is dead?

[BigTony]

Sure feels like it. Right as android handhelds were just starting to get really good and affordable everyone seems to have given up on the platform in favor of handheld PCs which are cool but are way too bulky inefficient and expensive. So many projects like citra and aetherSX2 are being abandoned it sucks. Am i just being overly pessimistic or is android gaming fucked?

 

[Yousef]

Sure feels like it. Right as android handhelds were just starting to get really good and affordable everyone seems to have given up on the platform in favor of handheld PCs which are cool but are way too bulky inefficient and expensive. So many projects like citra and aetherSX2 are being abandoned it sucks. Am i just being overly pessimistic or is android gaming fucked?

In my humble opinion, I would personally say no. I still game on it. But it’s worth mentioning I’m like 90% content just emulating 5th gen and below, NDS/PSP and below. I’m not super eager to play ps2 stuff on it cuz I have my steam deck for that and I typically don’t want too many large files clogging up my phone because file management is so much worse on a phone than on a pc imo because your phone carelessly saves larger versions of some data and makes it much harder to retrace your steps and track down said files. On pc it’s easy to sort everything by size. On phone it takes a few more steps plus i just plat rpgs on my phone which doesn’t require you to play the larger systems.

 

[deh]

No, I don't think Android gaming is dead. I play Xbox Game Pass on my Android tablet and it works well and there are always good things coming to the Google Play Store, I am satisfied with it.

 

[RetroLuvr]

I play most of my games on my redmagic android phone and its amazing. I get everything from NES to PS2 and 3ds. Yeah aether and citra have been discontinued but projects like nethersx2 and azahar have been continuing development where they left off. A guy named Mr. Sujano on youtube does news on the advancements in emulation pretty regularly and android emulation is mentioned a lot

 

[fake-kun]

Android gaming was ever alive?

 

[BigTony]

No, I don't think Android gaming is dead. I play Xbox Game Pass on my Android tablet and it works well and there are always good things coming to the Google Play Store, I am satisfied with it.

I use steam link a lot on my retroid pocket its crazy how good game streaming has gotten

 

[Tortuga]

What do you mean dead? There's is like 20 new gacha and online shooter slops every week

 

[BigTony]

What do you mean dead? There's is like 20 new gacha and online shooter slops every week

Specifically for emulation should have been more clear about that

 

[Facesforce]

Eh, the issue with Android emulation has always been Google.

I use my Samsung Galaxy as a emulator for psp and ps2, but it never really feels as good as a dedicated handheld.

As far as the handheld pc thing goes, well that's simply the future. It's always been moving this direction. Just give them a few years to minaturize the devices and get them onto phone hardware, and Android/Ios will eventually be a dead system, because why use Dos in this day in age?

That's kind of my feelings on it.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

iOS gaming is just on the verge and android is probably dormant but by dead.

 

[Graw]

And here I was thinking android gaming's better than it's ever been since android phones first came out. I can emulate nearly every console and early PC in existence, there's a ton of ports of PC and console games out there, both official and unofficial. I just started Blasphemous and 9 Years of Shadow on android, both native ports. I also picked up Prince of Persia the Lost Crown, also a native port. I have pretty much the entire SaGa series on android, a bunch of Final Fantasy games, Hollow Knight, Rain World and a bunch of different full on games. I just regret not knowing about phone GPUs before I picked up this phone. My next phone will definitely be one with a snapdragon chipset.