Mobile gaming development
Mobile gaming has been developing for many years, you could play legendary snakes in early black-and-white screen Nokia & Motorola cell phones, then there came Java platform phones with better and more complex .jad & .jar games, but it was still quite far from console gaming(and that time console gaming wasn’t as it’s today).
After all this we were able to get to new level, Symbian OS and .sis games, more advanced games with more advanced gameplays, most close to high quality console gaming. But even this time there wasn’t online or multiplayer games for mobile, the only thing you could get was few Bluetooth multiplayer games with awful quality.
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Finally we got to new and current stage - smartphone gaming, nearly as good as console games! It’s awesome fact that now you can play very complex games on mobile like you could never dream of, you can play HD graphics games, real-time games, online games, multiplayer games, VR games and new addition to overall gaming universe — VR games!
Yet VR games are still under hard development on all platforms and due to lack of gaming pads or joysticks on mobile devices there aren’t complex VR games but you still can simple and fun games in Android and some in iOS/iPhone too.
Mobile joysticks exists for Android and iPhone smartphones but yet they aren’t commonly used by mobile gamers as it’s more of like advanced stuff, but as games keeps improving and overall gaming platform gets more attention and players it’s wise to say we can see much more popularity of mobile gamepads like MOGA or iPega or even Xbox/PS joysticks.
All that being said, it’s has still long way to go to reach pc or console level but maybe in some years we can see most of top titles released for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Windows, Android, iOS!
