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This is already happening. Search for "android hd gameplay hdmi" on youtube and you see countless examples of connecting an android phone to a HD display through HDMI. Hell, there are examples of streaming Netflix on your HDTV.

Phones already support bluetooth, so there is no reason why a couple of dualshocks cannot work with my android phone for team gaming.

I daresay if Sony did not have its "sunken cost" pathology about the playstation consoles, it could rule the gaming world - it already makes Playstation phones and it is one of the world's largest game publishers - it is just too scared to take the final leap. In one shot, it could come up with a phone and game library that could cannibalize its PS2 range.




Tell me when a tablet can play the latest blockbuster AAA titles on max settings on a big screen. keep in mind that most laptops can't even do this. Your scenario might come true if game publishers stop developing AAA games that require very resource intensive games.


neither can a console. We're not comparing a mobile to a high end desktop but to current generation consoles.


You can play skyrim on xbox. anyway that is not the point. You have games on your laptop, you have games on your phone and you have games on your tv.




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