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I put games like bubg, fortnite, and league of legends in the exploitative trash category, im aware theyre on phone I just dont respect them to begin. Also that is the small area of overlap I mentioned. As for how big it is, I dont particularly care, my point was that the mobile market and traditional gaming market are effectively two different markets with little overlap. Also downloads mean nothing, give me actual fucken player numbers cause in my opinion downloads mean nothing since you can download a game and never play it my steam library for example.
As for the Switch I dont really care if modern tech outstrips it its getting a bit old, seriously I would hope a piece of tech that was released in 2017 was being outstripped by newer stuff.
And yes I do mean underpowered, even the most advanced phone will pale in comparison to anything bigger than it from overheat alone. The battery is right on the rest of the electronics meaning as the battery and electronics run they heat eachother up and start to lose performance, add on passive cooling and you end up with a distinct loss of performance. If you know of a phone with a cooling fan on the back let me know id love to have it.
And yeah id fucken hope a modern phone of decent quality could run the games of a 25 year old console better than the console itself. If ya want to impress me when it comes to your phones power run Warhammer total war III, Resident Evil 4 Remake, or even Crusader Kings 2 hell ill give ya bonus points if ya can run it with the Geheimnisnacht mod.
You can go find player numbers if you like, there are a tonne of people playing multiplayer games online on their phones all the time, more than anything else.
Whether you respect them or not matters not one bit to anyone else.
First you say phones are underpowered, now you say they should be more powerful than a Switch because of the age... take your pick, don't hop between at your convenience.
What are you on about with batteries? The Switch is the same, the battery is next to everything else inside as it's just a tablet. Like the Switch, gaming phones have fans too. What are modern phones paling in comparison to exactly? Passive cooling of what? Phones have fans, like my Redmagic.
The Dreamcast is what I've been emulating as it's my favourite console; it emulates at a much higher resolution. Feel free to check out what other emulation it can do, as I know it can do some Switch stuff.
Not that I need to impress you, but how about Death Stranding? https://apps.apple.com/us/app/death-stranding-directors-cut/id6449748961
And all the MOBAs which run smooth as.