Sensational industry analysts have over the years opined that console gaming is nearing the end of the road. The evolvement of the tablets have facilitated such wishful thinking but in reality and on paper, console gaming is miles ahead of the capacity of a tablet while the need for physical buttons places the tablet at a very disadvantageous state.
Despite the evolvement of motion technology in gaming, the need for physical buttons can’t be over-emphasized. Console game is indeed not dying anytime soon and it is equally well and alive. The buzz surrounding the release of the hotly anticipated Xbox One and PlayStation 4 gaming devices proves my claim beyond any reasonable doubt.
Now let us examine why tablets do not stand a chance in replacing traditional console gaming.
3. Power
In every gaming generation there is always an argument centered on the specs available to various gaming devices. It got to its peak with current generation of gaming where emphases was laid on the astounding power of the PS3 only made possible by the highly glorified “cell”. Obviously, no company wants to release a device that would later be labeled by the public and analysts as a down-market commodity. This places console gaming manufacturers at red alert who are required to stack in more power into their next console. Ultimately, this leads to evolvement and setting a new standards.
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Gaming in the past was seen with great mediocrity and an embarrassing attempt to rival Holly Wood, the story is however different now, as highly rated games like Alan Wake and The Last of Us have put a lot of blockbuster Holly Wood movies to shame. The tablets lacks any form of power to output anything close to what console gaming has to offer. You have your doubt? Read on 🙂
2. Graphics and Performance
Gran Torismo 5 has a staggering 1,083 cars, damage control, weather effects, optional stereoscopic-3D, dynamic skid marks, dust and the ability for drivers to flash their headlights, yet GT5 used only 80% power of the PS3. The aforementioned stats should make anyone thinking that tablets has any chance of making console gaming go into oblivion think again.
I know they are great games like GTA 3 available on tablets but it is considerably downgraded to fit into the ridiculous performance of a tablet. Having any game in the scale of GTA 5 run on a tablet would be a case of placing a round peg in a square hole. The GPU of the best tablets out there can’t rival what’s available on the PS Vita needless to say it will have any effect on what next-gen brings to the table.
1. Buttons
The hype on motion controls failed and further explains why there isn’t any need to fix what’s not broken. The original idea of gaming with a controller was not a mistake over 25-years ago and it can’t automatically be a mistake now.
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The controller places you right inside the game; it gives you the true feeling that you are actually controlling your character. I can’t even being to explain why physical buttons remains the only alternative for true gamers. Imagine playing Halo on a tablet, I can’t imagine how the “no-trigger” feelings would be. In essence, this is one major flaw of the tablets. The lack of physical buttons is a big letdown.
Conclusion
There are a plethora of reasons to own a tablet. Every year there is an update on the processing power of what a tablet can do. But that’s not enough reason to believe tablets would replace console gaming. Mobile gaming is meant to pass time while you are on a bus or on an airplane. Even if that was to be the argument, hand-held gaming devices take care of that job on a much more epic scale.
Gaming has evolved and that evolvement was only made possible with the incredible power of console gaming devices. Gaming is a very serious business, conveying a message accompanied with emotions, Heavy Rain proves that we can indeed have emotion in gaming instead of the traditional “restart-button” whenever our character dies. Gaming is best on a large HD TV with optimum sound production. No doubt, you can connect a tablet to a TV, but then again you can’t get anything close to what console gaming devices produces.
Over To You
What do you think? Do you believe tablets can replace console gaming? What has been your experience using both system. I really like to read what your opinion could be. Kindly drop them on the comment box. 🙂
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10 Comments
Obasi Miracle
Hi bro Nosa,
From your post it seems to me you are the kinda dudes that loves playing advance pc games.
Even though I own both game pad, tab and pc I haven’t really explore the gaming aspect, I only do play zuma and zuma revenge.
But looking from the angles you have analyzed I will like to agree with you on the button aspect of gaming console.
You really did very well with your analysis bro, hope you do have a splendid day. Happy blogging
Nosa E Nosa
I kind of love gaming and has really improved my intelligence contrary what others would suggest. I actually started gaming when I was only 5 and I played all gaming console on the market except Wii and Wii U 🙂
Can’t wait for Xbox One and PS4..
True gamers will never under-estimate the importance of gaming with buttons. And you play Zuma? 😮 .. Wow nice, I played that only a few times, I am a hardcore gamer to the extreme.
Thanks for visiting mate. 🙂
Emmanuel
I’m not all that the techie type. When it comes to gaming, what I know and enjoy best is soccer! That’s all!
Nosa E Nosa
Hmm, I don’t really dig much into soccer. My favorite games are TPS and Sandbox with Metal Gear Solid being best game and Grand Theft Auto being my automatic favorite.
I used to like the PES games but over the years, they have been so so crappy!
TheBizGist Author
Whoa.. I also love games like crazy buh when i met the internet.. OH! I Fell In love.. Lol! Nice one bro
Nosa E Nosa
Lol. Hilarious 🙂
IPsolutions
Nice post and really intelligent thought.
I appreciate your post ….
Bongo the Prdkha
Another reason why consoles might not be replaced would be that there is rampant piracy in Android segment. Unless there will be tens of bilions of techicaly advanced tablets avable whose large number will cover up for huge piracy looses, most of real AAA game developers would not want to release their games on tablets/smartphones.
Another reason might be that consoles are much cheaper compared to “real” gaming tablets. That razor 1000$ beast tablet is too unpractical and expensive for most gamers to afford and might not last for long which is another reason.
Consoles have life cycles around 10 years. This produces stable enviroment for game development and optimisation. PC’s are not that stable but have huge brute power which cover’s their unstability but Tablets are very limited by heating problem which result’s in energy/heat efficient architecture which is weak. Also tablet enviroment is extremely unstable, digital only and extremely prone to piracy.
Tablet developers like razor are trying to add buttons and performance but due to above mentioned problems they might not succeed.
This is how I feel about it
Sorry for my bad English
Nosa E Nosa
Hello Bongo,
Wow, your comment is truly fantastic and educative. I can’t believe I skipped the piracy point. You said it all and made added more points to the article.
I totally agree with you on all the points raised, and for your English? It’s not bad, I didn’t spend any extra effort in trying to read what have communicated.
Thanks and have a nice day friend :).
Edward
Sorry but you’re arguing with points no one ever made. There saying years down the road when tablets apparently catch up to consoles, and the physical button thing is not a problem seeing as there is tons of controller support for android and android games. I personally do not think tablets are going to replace consoles though. I don’t care what the damn games are playing on but even if tablets catch up to consoles not everyone will have the latest and the greatest and Devs will have to take that into account with there games or they will lose money. Also anything can happen 10 years down the road with an already flooded android market. Companies try new things.