Then you don't really want a gaming phone. The touch screen is the input solution, as the games you play on phones use touch screens. You probably are looking for a Switch that has calling capabilities and can fit in a pocket.
OP clearly didn't want it badly enough
Ha i just realized that n gage is supposed to be engage and n cause of nokia.
100% with you OP.
Best thing I've found when digging into this every few months or so is the Moqi i7s. I'd recommend checking it out if you haven't already.
I think Sony patented the slide out controls, thus forever f*@£ing over my ideal mobile gamepad solution.
I came to this thread skeptical, as all gaming phones seem pointless because of the lack of proper input, but you just sold me on this phone. Now I want one.If I'd be someone at MS pitching this to Phil, here you go:
'The Switch will sell over 100m units. Everyone needs a phone. Everyone who tried to make gaming phones before approached the subject with 0 taste or understanding of the market. Touchscreens are an extremely poor input device for most games. Our goal is to use the Surface Team to create a phone that's also a first class gaming portable that'll directly compete with Nintendo's Switch, but it'll be subsidized and way more powerful. We want gamers to naturally buy this device instead of your old, regular phone when they have to buy a new phone. We want the choice for them to be obvious cause the device is so slick and awesome and it'll do everything your regular phone does anyway. Oh, and it'll also be perfect for XCloud. It's called the xPhone.'
Boom.
That should be the exciting thing. You create the market by creating the category and get people excited about it. A couple of years ago, all the analysts touted how handheld gaming is dead, the Vita was a failure, Nintendo is doomed, blablabla. Then Nintendo came along and created one of the most successful handhelds ever. I don't know how some people in this thread can be so shortsighted. Fuck the Status Quo, just because currently X or Y is the norm doesn't mean that it has to be this way. With current Tech, you could easily fit everything the Switch can do into your phone and create a marginally thicker phone than what's out there that then would also work as your gaming device. Hell, you could even create a dock for it and use it to play on your TV if you wanted to. Do all that, support the device properly and sell it with a subscription to subsidize the costs and you got a winner.You are not going to get a gaming phone with buttons and sticks, there is no market for such a thing.
Yes, I pointed that out before and all these devices are sub-par. It's the same shit as using a 'Booster Boy' for your old GameBoy. Nobody is carrying that crap around, the moment you go for that, you already lost. None of those devices get it truly right, they're all clunky and shitty and uncomfortable. For this stuff to truly work, it'd have to be a slick part of the phone. I think Sony was onto something with the Xperia Play and that thing could've worked with another revision and better support. It's crazy that almost 10 years later, nobody has even tried to give gamers a slick alternative.You will need one of those phone controllers (Razer Kishi seems most popular) or a phone clip for your Xbox One or PS4 controller. Then pair it with any huge flagship phone, those are also the most powerful phones available.
People want thinner phones these days OP, not bulkier, so as nifty as that slide out Xperia was for the time I don't think even core gamers care to have something that thick for their phone.
YupThe mobile gaming market is already pretty huge. Probably bigger than the conventional market.
Nobody ever said it was perfect. Far from it. But slide-out was a better approach than anything on the market atm.Did you have an Xperia Play? Because I did. Still do somewhere actually. The thing was garbage.
Sony messed up twice with this. Their problem is canabalising their other products and they couldn't position the Vita against their other phones. The Vita even had a 3G option that suggested a potential future phone SKU, but they didn't go that far.PSP or Vita being phones (and having the battery life to be used as phones) would have been the perfect phone for me.